Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers, allowing you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
Althought I prefer Textile for its table support and other niceties, Markdown makes for slightly more readable text when writing essays.
Resources:
Date | Link | Notes |
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Feb’21 | cmark-gfm | GitHub’s Markdown flavor in C |
Aug’20 | QLMarkdownGFM | A Quicklook generator for GitHub Flavored Markdown |
Sep’14 | mdp | A very neat terminal presentation tool. |
Nov’12 | Strapdown | Yet another JavaScript parser, with some neat themes and GitHub flavour support. |
Aug’12 | Uberwriter | A nice, clean Linux editor. |
Jun’12 | Markdown Service Tools | A set of OS X system services to manipulate text. |
Apr’12 | formd | A tool to convert between inline and reference Markdown links. |
Mar’12 | EpicEditor | A themable JavaScript editor. |
Oct’11 | MMD | A C language implementation of MultiMarkdown. |
Mou | A web developer-oriented app. | |
Multimarkdown Composer | Another Mac app. | |
Jan 5 | readown | A Cocoa viewer that wraps the PHP renderer. |
Dec 25 | discount | A C implementation. |
Oct 16 | Pandoc | A markup converter written in Haskell with support for it |
Older | WMD | an amazing JavaScript editor specifically tailored for using Markdown. |
Make.text | a bookmarklet for translating a web page into Markdown | |
PyMarkdown | for Python, obviously. | |
python-markdown2 | a second Python implementation, with some improvements. | |
BlueCloth | for Ruby | |
PHP implementation | ||
C# / .NET implementation | ||
Partial implementation | in JavaScript | |
Showdown | a better one | |
A more complete list | maintained by François Granger, who is developing a markup converter. |