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Markdown (Syntax & Extensions, Documentation & Cheat Sheets, Libraries, ...) • Markdown Editors & (Pre)viewers • Books (Services, Hand-Written, Auto-Built w/ Open Data, ...)

Awesome Markdown

A collection of awesome markdown goodies (libraries, services, editors, tools, cheatsheets, etc.)

Note: stands for the GitHub page and 💎 stands for the RubyGems page.

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Markdown

• Markdown (web: daringfireball.net/projects/markdown) - original Markdown syntax write-up and processor in Perl by John Gruber; no longer maintained (last update in Dec 2004)
  • Talk - markdown-discuss mailing list

Documentation

• Markdown @ Wikipedia

Markdown Syntax Extensions

• SmartyPants - convert (c) into ?, "" into ?, etc.
• Emojis -
• CriticMarkup -
• GitHub Flavored Markup (GFM) - @mention, to do lists w/ [ ] and [x], etc.

MultiMarkdown (MMD)

• MultiMarkdown (MMD) - Markdown extensions by Fletcher Penney adding footnotes, tables, definition lists, document metadata (e.g. title, author, date, etc.) and more; first added to MultiMarkdown.pl
  • Cheatsheet - syntax quick reference
  • Test Suite
• MultiMarkdown.pl - historic MultiMarkdown.pl code; converter script in Perl (last update in Jan 2011)

Markdown Extra

• Markdown Extra - Markdown extensions by Michel Fortin; first added to PHP Markdown (Extra)
• Dingus - try Markdown Extra in your browser

Markdown Extended (MDE)

• Markdown Extended (MDE) @ aboutmde.org
  • Spec
  • Cheatsheet - syntax quick reference; examples side-by-side
  • Dingus - try Markdown Extended in your browser
• Code - converter script in PHP

Manuscripts

Free book format for Markdown

Manuscripts (web: manuscripts.github.io, github: manuscripts) - adds book.yml for book (meta) info e.g. title, author, publisher, year etc. and contents.yml for table of contents and file strucutre

• Manuscripts Book Starter Kit (github: manuscripts/book-starter)

CommonMark

A strongly specified, highly compatible implementation of Markdown

CommonMark (web: commonmark.org)

• Spec (web: http://spec.commonmark.org)
• Dingus (web: spec.commonmark.org/dingus) - try CommonMark in your browser
• Talk (web: talk.commonmark.org)
• Code (github: jgm/CommonMark) - spec and reference code in JavaScript and C

Markdown Documentation

Markdown Cheatsheets / Quick References

• Markdown Cheatsheet

Markdown Getting Started Guides / Tutorials

• Markdown Tutorial -
• Mastering Markdown @ GitHub Guides
• Markdown Basics @ GitHub Help

Markdown Building Blocks

Markdown Libraries & Tools

Pandoc (web: pandoc.org, github: github.com/jgm/pandoc) - a universal document converter (in Haskell)

kramdown (web: kramdown.gettalong.org, github: gettalong/kramdown, gem: kramdown) - markdown library & command line tool (in Ruby)

Markdown Extended (MDE) (github: e-picas/markdown-extended

• transform plain text input (strings or files) in various output formats (in PHP)

Babelmark

• Babelmark 2 - a tool for comparing the output of various implementations of Markdown syntax
  • Babelmark 2 F.A.Q. - frequently asked questions (and answers) e.g. ... ??

Markdown Style Guides / Best Practices

to be done

Markdown Lint / Style Rule Checker

• mdlint to be done

Markdown Web Components / Custom Elements

• <x-markdown> - to be done

Markdown to Website / Blog

Jekyll (web: jekyllrb.com, github: jekyll/jekyll, gem: jekyll) - transform your plain text into static websites and blogs (in Ruby)

Middleman (web: middlemanapp.com, github: middleman/middleman, gem: [middleman]) - makes developing websites simple (in Ruby)

Markdown to Email

Markdown Here (web: markdown-here.com, github: adam-p/markdown-here) - a browser extension for rendering email written in Markdown; available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Thunderbird, and more; besides email also works with Evernote, Google Groups, Blogger, and more

Markdown to Presentation / Slideshow

Slide Show (S9) (web: slideshow-s9.github.io, github: slideshow-s9/slideshow, gem: slideshow) - a free web alternative to PowerPoint and Keynote in Ruby

• Templates (github: slideshow-templates)

Markpress (github: markpress) - A command line tool and node package to convert markdown files into self-contained impressjs html presentations. Example

nodePPT (github: nodePPT - A web presentation tool supporting markdown based on GFM.

Markdown to Portable Document Format (PDF)

• markdown-pdf , (npm Package) - converts Markdown files to PDFs

Markdown Styles / Documents / Pages

The Zen of Page Designs (github: pagedesigns)

Markdown to Books

The Zen of Book Designs (github: bookdesigns)

Hyper Book (H9) , 💎

• Templates

Markdown to Table of Contents (TOC)

Generate a markdown table of contents (TOC) with remarkable (github: markdown-toc)

Convert to Markdown Tools

Microsoft Word to Markdown

• word-to-markdowm gem , 💎 - "liberate" content from the jail that is Microsoft Word documents; converts to plain-text Markdown

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) to Markdown

Ruby

• reverse_markdown , 💎 - map simple HTML back into markdown
• html2markdown , 💎 - simple and flexible HTML to markdown converter
• hypertextmarkdown , 💎 - HTML to markdown converter
• html2md , 💎 - converts basic HTML to markdown
• unmarkdown , 💎 - convert HTML to Markdown
• upmark , 💎 - a HTML to Markdown converter
• remark - HTML to Markdown converter in Ruby

JavaScript / Node.js

• to-markdown , (npm Package) - a HTML to Markdown converter in JavaScript
• html2markdown , (npm Package) - converting HTML to Markdown
• Markitdown - A client side web app that lets you paste formatted text from a webpage (e.g with links intact) and recieve markdown output.
  • Markitdown.medusis.com - A client side web app for converting rich text to markdown

Book Services

• Softcover.io - publish from the comfort of your command-line
  • Softcover , 💎 - a command line tool for book generation, building, and publishing
• GitBook.com - write and publish books with Markdown and Git
  • GitBook - a command line tool (and Node.js library) for building beautiful books using GitHub/Git and Markdown (or AsciiDoc)
• Bitbooks.cc - Bitbooks turns a repo full of markdown files into a handsome, hosted, online book
  • Franklin - a static-site framework, optimized for online books

Meta

License

The awesome list is dedicated to the public domain. Use it as you please with no restrictions whatsoever.

Questions? Comments?

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