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This is a library package that includes the PHP Markdown parser and its
sibling PHP Markdown Extra which additional features.
sibling PHP Markdown Extra with additional features.
Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown
allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text
format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
"Markdown" is two things: a plain text markup syntax, and a software
tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text markup to HTML.
PHP Markdown is a port to PHP of the original Markdown program by
John Gruber.
"Markdown" is actually two things: a plain text markup syntax, and a
software tool, originally written in Perl, that converts the plain text
markup to HTML. PHP Markdown is a port to PHP of the original Markdown
program by John Gruber.
Full documentation of Markdown's syntax is available on John's
Markdown page: <http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>
* [Full documentation of the Markdown syntax](<http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>)
- Daring Fireball (John Gruber)
* [Markdown Extra syntax additions](<http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/>)
- Michel Fortin
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