Markdown by DaringFireball
Markdown: Simple text-to-HTML conversion for web writers
About Markdown by DaringFireball
Markdown is a lightweight markup language that converts plain text into structurally valid HTML. Designed for readability, it allows writers to focus on content while ensuring compatibility with web publishing. The tool, written in Perl, supports integration with platforms like Movable Type, Blosxom, and BBEdit, and is available under an open-source BSD-style license.
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Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. It allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid HTML.
You can try Markdown right now using the online Dingus tool available on the website.
Markdown requires Perl 5.6.0 or later and the standard Perl library module Digest::MD5, which is probably already installed on your server.
Copy the 'Markdown.pl' file into your Movable Type 'plugins' directory. The 'plugins' directory should be in the same directory as 'mt.cgi'. Once installed, Markdown will appear as an option in Movable Type's Text Formatting pop-up menu.
To configure Markdown to produce HTML 4 output, you need to use a special MTMarkdownOptions container tag in each Movable Type template where you want HTML 4-style output. Alternatively, you can use the --html4tags command-line switch for Unix-style command line usage.
Yes, Markdown is free software, available under a BSD-style open source license.
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