Markdown

Overview

An excellent and popular plain text mark-up language, with a naturally readable source document.

See the original Daring Fireball website introduction to Markdown by the author and inventor of the Markdown language, John Gruber.

See [CommonMark.org][] for a specification, reference implementations and list of other applications that comply with the specification.

Available as a Debian package:

   $ sudo apt-get install markdown
   # and for Emacs users:
   $ sudo apt-get install emacs-goodies-el

The emacs-goodies-el package includes markdown-mode. Alternatively, visit http://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/

Editing Markdown Documents on Google Drive

Article at http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-markdown-editors-play-nice-google-drive/ lists and some reviews of the following editors for Google Drive that support Markdown:

Resources

Related Topics: EclipsePlugins, EmacsTips, PanDoc


-- Frank Dean - 10 Aug 2009