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Markdown is:
a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
This page is maintained by and for the markdown community to document various tools and resources available to document authors and developers, as well as implementors of the various markdown implementations.
Got an idea for this site? You help by joining the discussion on github and sharing your ideas. If you've read the discussions and think there's something you can do you can dive right in and fork this sites Github repository, make your changes and do a pull request.
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These are some developers who have written Markdown parsers:
These are some libraries that will parse markdown:
- Markdown - John Grubers perl script
- markdown-js - a Markdown parser for javascript
- php-markdown - a port to PHP of John Grubers Markdown perl script (plus more)
- Python-Markdown - a Python implementation of John Grubers Markdown
- github-flavored-markdown - Githubs version of markdown
- sundown - a markdown parser in C
- redcarpet - a markdown parser in ruby (available as a gem)
These are some implementations of markdown:
- Github - Use a modified markdown for issues, comments and wiki pages
- Bitbucket - uses markdown for issues
- StackOverflow and others - the entire StackExchange network uses markdown
- markdown-here - a browser extension to render markdown in emails