1 [[!template id=plugin name=mdwn core=1 author="[[Joey]]"]]
4 This plugin lets ikwiki convert files with names ending in ".mdwn" to html.
5 It uses the [[ikiwiki/markdown]] minimal markup language.
7 This is the standard markup language used by ikiwiki, although some others
8 are also available in other plugins.
10 There are several implementations of markdown support that can be used by
11 this plugin. In order of preference:
13 * [Discount](http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/),
14 via the [[!cpan Text::Markdown::Discount]] perl module.
15 This implementation is considered to be the default and is strongly
16 recommended, but it is not mandatory because it requires an external
18 * The [[!cpan Text::Markdown]] perl module.
19 * The [original version of markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/).
21 [[!cpan Text::MultiMarkdown]] can be used in order to use tables, footnotes,
22 and other new features from the markdown variant called
23 [multimarkdown](http://fletcherpenney.net/MultiMarkdown/) (some of which
24 are also available in the recommended implementation, Discount). Multimarkdown is
25 not enabled by default, but can be turned on via the `multimarkdown` option
26 in the setup file. Note that multimarkdown's metadata and wikilinks
27 features are disabled when it's used with ikiwiki. Also note that if the
28 `multimarkdown` option is enabled, it takes priority over Discount, which
29 might cause formatting that is understood by Discount to be ignored.