MULTIMARKDOWN(1)

🎀 MULTIMARKDOWN(1) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the MULTIMARKDOWN(1) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation crew 💖 it's giving tidy little manual energy ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

So the star of the show is MultiMarkdown.pl, and its whole job is to convert MultiMarkdown syntax into (X)HTML 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so this program comes bundled with Perl's Text::MultiMarkdown module, and it's basically there to show you how to use it 🦋

MultiMarkdown.pl can be invoked on any file containing MultiMarkdown-syntax, and it will spit out the matching (X)HTML on STDOUT. Here's the vibe:

$ cat file.txt
[MultiMarkdown][] *extends* the very well-known [Markdown][] syntax.

[MultiMarkdown]: http://fletcherpenney.net/What_is_MultiMarkdown
[Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

$ multimarkdown file.txt
<p><a href="http://fletcherpenney.net/What_is_MultiMarkdown">MultiMarkdown</a> <em>extends</em> the very well-known <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">Markdown</a> syntax.</p>

If you don't give it a file, it'll just wait for input from STDIN instead 🙈 iykyk:

$ echo "A **simple** test" | multimarkdown
<p>A <strong>simple</strong> test</p>

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• version — pulls up the full info for this version 🔥
• shortversion — gives you just the version number, no fluff 🍓
• html4tags — makes HTML 4-style tags instead of XHTML. ngl this one is a little plot twist: XHTML wants elements that don't wrap a block (like the "hr" tag) to say they won't be closed, by closing them with "/>". HTML 4-style just outputs the tag exactly as it comes 💜

$ echo '---' | multimarkdown
<hr />
$ echo '---' | multimarkdown --html4tags
<hr>

• help — shows this documentation 🧚

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🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

Big thanks to the legends who wrote this:

• Copyright 2004 John Gruber
• Copyright 2006 Fletcher Penny
• Copyright 2008 Tomas Doran

The manpage was written by Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> for use on Debian systems, but it's totally free to use elsewhere 🫶

For the full licensing tea, check out the full documentation for Text::MultiMarkdown.pm 📖

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Text::MultiMarkdown
• <http://fletcherpenney.net/What_is_MultiMarkdown>

That's the whole tea, bestie ✨ this page came from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and it's signing off as MULTIMARKDOWN(1) 💖🎀