Title:	MultiMarkdown v7
Author:	Fletcher T. Penney
Date:	2026-03-13
Copyright:	Copyright © 2024-2026 Fletcher T. Penney.
Version:	7.0.0

MultiMarkdown 7.0.0

C parser for Markdown with additional features and multiple output formats.

Introduction

This README has been streamlined. Please see the User's Guide and Developer's Guide for additional information. These can be found here.

Current Status

MultiMarkdown v7 supports everything that v6 supported (I think) with one key exception -- it doesn't currently include OpenDocument (ODT) as an export format.

I am still deciding what I want to do with this. The ODT format was relatively easy to generate. It is a bit verbose compared to HTML or LaTeX, but not too bad. But it is still not used as frequently as I would like, and sadly the Microsoft format is still much more popular. So I looked into supporting that as a native export format, and it is a mess(not suprising...) My hope was that the Word format would be OK to generate, and then I was going to look into natively generating PowerPoint (in addition to the LaTeX Beamer support that already exists.) We'll see.

Otherwise, v7 is ready for the public!

Installers

Currently there are only installers for macOS, which can be found at Github:

https://github.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown-7/releases

I still don't have a great workflow to generate Windows installers for MMD.

Building MultiMarkdown

You can compile MMD from source using CMake:

make
cd build
make
ctest
make install

The ctest command is optional and verifies that your copy is working correctly.

The make install command is optional and can be used to intall multimarkdown for easy use.

If you want to use Xcode:

make xcode
open build-xcode/libMultiMarkdown7.xcodeproj

Contributing

Feature requests, bug reports, etc. can be submitted via the Github repository.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2024-2026 Fletcher T. Penney

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

Components

MultiMarkdown uses a few other projects for specific functionality:

• getopt -- Copyright (c) 2002 Todd C. Miller All rights reserved. (Windows only)

• miniz -- Copyright 2013-2014 RAD Game Tools and Valve Software.
  Copyright 2010-2014 Rich Geldreich and Tenacious Software LLC All rights reserved.

• uthash -- Copyright (c) 2003-2022, Troy D. Hanson All rights reserved.

• yxml -- Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Yoran Heling All rights reserved.