MultiMarkdown
title: "MultiMarkdown" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["lightweight-markup-languages"] topic_path: "linguistics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiMarkdown" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| name | MultiMarkdown |
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| extensions | .mmd |
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| owner | Fletcher T. Penney |
| released | {{cite web |
| archive-date | 2007-05-09 |
| latest release version | 6 ( years ago) |
| genre | Markup language |
| extended from | Markdown |
| type | Open file format |
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MultiMarkdown is a lightweight markup language created by Fletcher T. Penney as an extension of the Markdown format. It supports additional features not available in plain Markdown syntax.
There is also a text editor with the same name that supports multiple export formats.
File format description
The MultiMarkdown language adds the following features to the basic Markdown specification:
- footnotes
- tables
- citations and bibliography (works best in LaTeX using BibTeX)
- math support
- automatic cross-referencing ability
- smart typography, with support for multiple languages
- image attributes
- table and image captions
- definition lists
- glossary entries (LaTeX only)
- document metadata (e.g. title, author, date, etc.)
Software
There are a series of open-source interactive and automated software tools for editing and conversion to XML, HTML, and LaTeX that share the same name as the format. Several other open-source and commercial text editors, such as Scrivener, also include broad MultiMarkdown support.
References
References
- Penney, Fletcher T.. (2022-06-26). "fletcher/MultiMarkdown-6".
- Penney, Fletcher T.. (2022-06-26). "MultiMarkdown 6 Development Notes".
- Leonard, Sean. (March 2016). "Guidance on Markdown: Design Philosophies, Stability Strategies, and Select Registrations". Internet Engineering Task Force.
- "MultiMarkdown Features".
- "MultiMarkdown".
- "Human Markdown Reference".
- "MultiMarkdown v6 Syntax Guide".
- Sparks, David. (2011-09-26). "iPad at Work". John Wiley & Sons.
- Buffalo, Vince. (2015-07-01). "Bioinformatics Data Skills: Reproducible and Robust Research with Open Source Tools". "O'Reilly Media, Inc.".
- "MultiMarkdown features".
- Hernandez, Gwen. (2012-07-30). "Scrivener For Dummies". John Wiley & Sons.
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