How do I use MultiMarkdown?
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There are several ways to use MultiMarkdown, depending on your needs. You canuse the multimarkdown command line tool, you can use MultiMarkdown withseveral applications that support it directly, or you can use a drag and dropapproach.
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Command Line Usage
First, verify that you have properly installed MultiMarkdown:
If you don’t see a message telling you which version of MultiMarkdown isinstalled, check out Troubleshooting.
To learn more about the command line options to multimarkdown:
Once you have properly installed MultiMarkdown:
will convert the plain text file file.txt into XHTML output. To save theresults to a file:
Mac update to 10.12. Install panopto for mac. A shortcut to this is to use MultiMarkdown’s batch mode, which will save theoutput to the same base filename that is input, with the extension .html (or.tex for LaTeX output):
A benefit of batch mode is that you can process multiple files at once:
If you want to create LaTeX output instead of XHTML:
For OPML (not implemented in v6 yet):
For a regular OpenDocument text file:
And for a Flat OpenDocument text file:
There are also several convenience scripts included with MultiMarkdown:
These scripts run MultiMarkdown in batch mode to generate XHTML, LaTeX, OPML,or ODF files respectively. These scripts are included with the Mac or Windowsinstallers, and are available for *nix in the scripts directory in thesource project. They are intended to be used as shortcuts for the most commoncommand line options.
Command Line Options
There are several options when running MultiMarkdown from the command line.
Compatibility mode causes MultiMarkdown to output XHTML that is compatiblewith that output from the original Markdown. This allows it to pass theoriginal Markdown test suite. Syntax features that don’t exist in regularMarkdown will still be output using the regular MultiMarkdown outputformatting.
The extract feature outputs the value of the specified metadata key. Anydesk unattended access not working. This isused in my convenience scripts to help choose the proper LaTeX output mode,and could be used in other circumstances as well.
This option specifies the format that MultiMarkdown outputs. The default ishtml. If you use the LaTeX Mode metadata, then MultiMarkdown willautomatically choose memoir or beamer as directed without using thesecommand line options. Using that metadata will also allow the variousconvenience scripts to choose the correct output format as well.
Other options are available by checking out multimarkdown --h, butthe ones listed above are the primary options.
TODO: need to describe more options
Advanced Mode
MultiMarkdown version 2.0 had to first convert the source file to XHTML, andthen applied XSLT files to convert to the final LaTeX format. SinceMultiMarkdown 3.0 can create LaTeX directly, this approach is no longernecessary.
The one benefit of that approach, however, was that it became possible toperform a wide range of customizations on exactly how the LaTeX output wascreated by customizing the XSLT files.
If you install the Support files on Mac or Linux, you can still use theadvanced XSLT method to generate LaTeX output. For the time being, thisapproach doesn’t work with Windows, but it would be fairly easy to create abatch script or perl script to implement this feature on Windows.
Keep in mind, however, that because of the more advanced mechanism of handlingLaTeX in MultiMarkdown 3.0, you can do a great deal of customization withoutneeding to use an XSLT file.
The mmd2xslt script will convert a plain text file into LaTeX that isvirtually identical with that created by the regular LaTeX approach.
There are a few differences in the two approaches, however:
Once a MultiMarkdown file is converted to XHTML, it is impossible to tellwhether the resulting HTML was generated by MultiMarkdown, or if it wasincluded as raw XHTML within the source document. So either way, it willbe converted to the analagous LaTeX syntax. The
multimarkdownbinary onits own will not convert XHTML into LaTeX.The whitespace that is generated will be different under certaincircumstances. Typically, this will result in one extra or one fewer blanklines with the the XSLT approach. Generally this will not be an issue, butwhen used with it may cause a newline to be lost.
The default XSLT recognizes
class='noxslt'when applied to XHTML entities,and will discard them from the output.An XSLT can only be applied to a complete XHTML document, not a “snippet”.Therefore, if you want to use the XSLT method, your file must have metadatathat triggers a complete document (i.e. any metadata except “quoteslanguage” or “base header level”).
Recommendations
I recommend that you become familiar with the “basic” approach to usingMultiMarkdown before trying to experiment with XSLT. The basic approach isfaster, and easier, and the results can still be customized quite a bit.
Then you can experiment with modifying XSLT to further customize your outputas needed.
If you have XSLT files that you used in MultiMarkdown 2.0, you will likelyneed to modify them to recognize the XHTML output generated by MultiMarkdown3.0. You can use the default XSLT files as a guide to what is different.
Mac OS X Applications
There are several applications that have built-in support for MultiMarkdown,or that can easily use it with a plug-in.
Using MultiMarkdown with TextMate
If you want to run MultiMarkdown from directly within TextMate, you shouldinstall my MultiMarkdown bundle. This is a modified version of the originalMarkdown bundle for TextMate that includes better support for MultiMarkdown.
This bundle will work with MultiMarkdown 2.0, or with MultiMarkdown 3.0 if youinstall the MultiMarkdown-Support files (available from the downloadspage).
Using MultiMarkdown with Scrivener
Scrivener is a great program for writers using Mac OS X. It includes builtin support for MultiMarkdown. If you want to use MultiMarkdown 3.0 withScrivener, you need to install the Support files in ~/Library/ApplicationSupport/MultiMarkdown. The MultiMarkdown-Support installer is available fromthe downloads page and will install these files for you.
Drag and Drop
Multimarkdown Composer App
You can use the Mac OS X drag and drop applications to allow you to convertMultiMarkdown to other formats by dragging and dropping files in the Finder.They are available from the downloads page, or by running make drop fromthe command line in the multimarkdown source directory.
MultiMarkdown and Finder “Quick Look”
Starting in Mac OS 10.5, the Finder has the ability to show a “QuickLook”preview of the contents of a file. I have two QuickLook generators that allowthe finder to preview the contents of a MultiMarkdown text file as an XHTMLpreview. One works on plain text files, and one works on OPML files.
NOTE: There is an open source version of the QL generatorhere, but the closed source oneis better.
Using MultiMarkdown in Windows
You can use the same command line approach with Windows as describedpreviously. While there aren’t drag and drop applications per se for theWindows system, you can use Windows Explorer to create links to the binary andspecify and desired command line options to change the default output format.This will effectively allow you to create drag and drop applications forWindows.
MultiMarkdown and LaTeX
Of note LaTeX is a complex set of programs. MultiMarkdown doesn’t includeLaTeX in the installer — it’s up to the user to install a working LaTeXsetup on their machine if you want to use it.
What MultiMarkdown does is make it easier to generate documents using theLaTeX syntax. It should handle 80% of the documents that 80% of MultiMarkdownneed. It doesn’t handle all circumstances, and sometimes you will need to handcode your LaTeX yourself.
In those cases you have a few options. MultiMarkdown will pass text includedin XHTML comments along to the LaTeX as raw output. For example:
You can also include your desired LaTeX code in a separate file and link toit:
If you have questions about LaTeX itself, I can’t help. You’re welcome to sendyour question to the MultiMarkdown Discussion List, and perhaps someone willbe able to offer some assistance. But you would be better off asking a groupdedicated to LaTeX instead.
If the problem is that MultiMarkdown itself is generating invalid LaTeX, thenof course I want to know about it so I can fix it.
MultiMarkdown and OPML
MultiMarkdown is well suited to plain text files, but it can also be useful towork on MultiMarkdown documents in an outliner or mind-mapping application.For this, it is easy to convert back and forth between OPML and plain textMultiMarkdown.
To convert from a text file to OPML:
or:
The resulting OPML file uses the headings to build the outline structure, andputs the text within each section as a not for the corresponding level of theoutline using the _note attribute. NOTE: not all outliners support thisattribute. On Mac OS X,OmniOutliner is afabulous outliner that supports this field. If you’re into mind mappingsoftware, iThoughts works on the iPad/iPhoneand supports import and export with OPML and the _note attribute.
Multimarkdown Composer Tool
To convert from OPML, you can use various commands in from theMMD-Support package:
NOTE: These scripts require a working installation of xsltproc, and theability to run shell scripts. This should work by default on mostinstallations of Mac OS X or Linux, but will require these applications to beinstalled separately on Windows.
MultiMarkdown and OpenDocument
It is also possible to convert a MultiMarkdown text file into a wordprocessing document for OpenOffice.org orLibreOffice. This file can then beconverted by one of those applications into RTF, or a Microsoft Word document,or many other file formats. (If you’re not familiar with these applications,they are worth checking out. I don’t understand why people use MicrosoftOffice any more…)
or
MultiMarkdown 2.0 had partial support for outputting an RTF file, and could doit completely on Mac OS X by using Apple’s textutil program. MMD 3 no longerdirectly supports RTF as an output format, but the Flat OpenDocument format isa much better option.
NOTE: LibreOffice can open these Flat OpenDocument files by default, butOpenOffice requires that you install the OpenDocument-Text-Flat-XML.jar fileavailable from thedownloads page. Toinstall it, create a new document in LibreOffice (or open an existing one),then go to the Tools->XML Filter Settings menu option. Use the “OpenPackage…” button to import the downloaded .jar file.
(BTW - if you “customized” your version of LibreOffice to remove features,don’t be surprised if this doesn’t work, and try following the OpenOfficeinstructions.)
Advanced Use
It is possible to use an XSLT file to customize the OpenDocument output fromMultiMarkdown. I suppose you could also write an XSLT to convert OpenDocumentinto LaTeX, similar to the default ones that convert XHTML into LaTeX.
You can also create an XSLT that converts the OpenDocument output and modifiesit to incorporate necessary customizations. While a little tricky to learn,XSLT files can be quite powerful and you’re limited only by your imagination.
Limitations
There are several limitations to the OpenDocument format:
images are not fully supported — they work best if you specify a lengthand a width in “fixed” units (not ‘%’), or do not specify any dimensions.
citations are not supported — I would like to be able to do somethinghere, but I suspect you will need to use an external tool for the timebeing
math features are not supported, though I hope to be able to implement thisat some point in the future