X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/8f8959c96ecc69ecc75b5e5c76b52345afce94d8..238e8b95a5b084e7131d3314b78419b9404cba4c:/doc/plugins/mdwn.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/mdwn.mdwn b/doc/plugins/mdwn.mdwn index c5b69689e..ce1b6097a 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/mdwn.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/mdwn.mdwn @@ -1,8 +1,20 @@ -[[template id=plugin name=mdwn core=1 included=1 author="[[Joey]]"]] -[[tag type/format type/core]] +[[!template id=plugin name=mdwn core=1 author="[[Joey]]"]] +[[!tag type/format]] This plugin lets ikwiki convert files with names ending in ".mdwn" to html. -It uses the [[markdown]] minimal markup language. +It uses the [[ikiwiki/markdown]] minimal markup language. This is the standard markup language used by ikiwiki, although some others are also available in other plugins. + +There are several implementations of markdown support that can be used by +this plugin. The [original version of +markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) can be used, or the +[[!cpan Text::Markdown]] perl module. + +[[!cpan Text::MultiMarkdown]] can be used in order to use tables, footnotes, +and other new features from the markdown variant called +[multimarkdown](http://fletcherpenney.net/MultiMarkdown/). Multimarkdown is +not enabled by default, but can be turned on via the `multimarkdown` option +in the setup file. Note that multimarkdown's metadata and wikilinks +features are disabled when it's used with ikiwiki.