awesome-markdown

A collection of awesome markdown goodies, libraries, services, tools, guides, books, etc.

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Contributions welcome. Anything missing? Send in a pull request. Thanks.

Markdown

• Markdown - original Markdown syntax write-up and processor in Perl by John Gruber; no longer maintained (last update in Dec 2004)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

• MultiMarkdown (MMD) - Markdown extensions by Fletcher Penney adding footnotes, tables, definition lists, document metadata (e.g. title, author, date, etc.) and more

CommonMark

A strongly specified, highly compatible implementation of Markdown

• commonmark.org
• Spec
• Code :octocat: - spec and reference code in JavaScript and C
• Dingus - try CommonMark (live) in your browser
• Talk

Markdown Libraries

• kramdown - :octocat: - markdown library (in Ruby)

Markdown Tools

• Pandoc - :octocat: - a universal document converter (in Haskell)
• Jekyll - :octocat: - transform your plain text into static websites and blogs (in Ruby)
• Middleman - :octocat: - makes developing websites simple (in Ruby)

Markdown to Website / Blog

Markdown to Presentation / Slideshow

• Slide Show (S9) - :octocat: - a free web alternative to PowerPoint and Keynote in Ruby
  • Templates :octocat:

Markdown to Books

• Hyper Book (H9) :octocat:
  • Templates :octocat:

"Real World" Book Examples

• Open Data Handbook, 2nd Edition - :octocat:
• Pro Git, 2nd Edition - :ocotocat:
• PHP - The Right Way- :octocat:
• The Front-End Tooling Book - :octocat:

Alternatives

More lightweight markup languages

• Wikitext, Wikicode - wiki markup used by Wikipedia and friends
  • Creole - "Standardized" core Wikitext markup
• AsciiDoc
• Textile
• reStructuredText (rst, reST)
• BBCode - bulletin board code

Meta

License

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

Questions? Comments?

Send them along to the markdown-discuss mailing list. Thanks!