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-This plugin, which is enabled by default, lets ikwiki convert files with
-names ending in ".mdwn" to html. It uses the [[markdown]] minimal markup
-language.
+[[!template id=plugin name=mdwn core=1 author="[[Joey]]"]]
+[[!tag type/format]]
 
-[[tag type/format type/core]]
+This plugin lets ikwiki convert files with names ending in ".mdwn" to html.
+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.
+
+## Implementations
+
+There are several implementations of markdown support that can be used by
+this plugin. In order of preference:
+
+* [Discount](http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/),
+  via the [[!cpan Text::Markdown::Discount]] perl module.
+  This implementation is considered to be the default and is strongly
+  recommended, but it is not mandatory because it requires an external
+  C library.
+* The [[!cpan Text::Markdown]] perl module.
+* The [original version of markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/).
+
+[[!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/) (some of which
+are also available in the recommended implementation, Discount). 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. Also note that if the
+`multimarkdown` option is enabled, it takes priority over Discount, which
+might cause formatting that is understood by Discount to be ignored.
+
+
+## Advanced options
+
+* `nodiscount`: If set to 1, Text::Markdown::Discount will not be used
+  even if it is available. The default is to use Discount if available,
+  and this is recommended.
+* `multimarkdown`: If set to 1, Text::MultiMarkdown will be used in
+  preference to Text::Markdown::Discount. The default is to not use
+  MultiMarkdown, and this is recommended.
+* `mdwn_footnotes`: If set to 1, implementations that support it will
+  recognise the footnote syntax originating in PHP Markdown Extra, with
+  `Footnote reference[^1]` and `[^1]: Footnote definition`. The default
+  is 1.
+* `mdwn_alpha_lists`: If set to 1, Text::Markdown::Discount will
+  accept letters as well as numbers in ordered list markers. The
+  default is 0, to avoid unintended parsing of lines that happen
+  to begin with a letter and a dot, such as "C. S. Lewis was an
+  author" or "M. Descartes was a philosopher".