Plugin: mdwn
Author: Joey
Included in ikiwiki: yes
Enabled by default: yes
Included in goodstuff: no
Currently enabled: yes

This plugin lets ikwiki convert files with names ending in ".mdwn" to html. It uses the 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, via the 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 Text::Markdown perl module.
• The original version of markdown.

Text::MultiMarkdown can be used in order to use tables, footnotes, and other new features from the markdown variant called 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".