awesome-markdown

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

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

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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• Markdown - original Markdown syntax write-up and processor in Perl by John Gruber; no longer maintained (last update in Dec 2004)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 - spec and reference code in JavaScript and C
• Dingus - try CommonMark (live) in your browser
• Talk

Markdown Libraries

• kramdown - , 💎 - markdown library (in Ruby)

Markdown Tools

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

Markdown to Website / Blog

Markdown to Email

• Markdown Here - - A browser extension for rendering email written in Markdown. Available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Thunderbird, and more. Besides email, it also works with Evernote, Google Groups, Blogger, and more.

Markdown to Presentation / Slideshow

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

Markdown to Books

• Hyper Book (H9) , 💎
  • Templates

Real World "Hand-Written" Book Examples

• Open Data Handbook, 2nd Edition - - note: 1st edition in reStructedText, 2nd edtion in markdown
• Pro Git, 2nd Edition - - note: 1st edition in markdown, 2nd edition in asciidoc
• PHP - The Right Way -
• The Front-End Tooling Book -
• Go Bootcamp -

Open Data "Auto-Build" Book Examples

• Free World Beer Book - - work-in-progress; auto-build using the beer.db and markdown templates w/ a static site generator
  • Templates

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

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!