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
- CommonMark
- http://code.google.com/p/markdownj/
- http://www.ohloh.net/p/doxia-module-markdown
- http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/
- Ink—a fast and flexible Markdown parser written in Swift
- Markdownj Maven Doxia module
- Mirror of Markdownj Maven Doxia module
- https://github.com/sirthias/pegdown
- Maven Doxia Isssue DOXIA-426 - Markdown module using PegDown
- Maven sandbox containing patches re DOXIA-426 issue
- https://github.com/jgm/peg-markdown
- http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/
- http://markdown.tautua.org/index.html
- https://github.com/samsouder/google-docs-markdown-parser
- http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/1649745633/editing-google-docs-in-emacs
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18390467/edit-google-docs-using-emacs
Related Topics: EclipsePlugins, EmacsTips, PanDoc
-- Frank Dean - 10 Aug 2009