markdown vs. multimarkdown

I’m teaching my students Markdown, mostly to encourage them to work in plain text, and because they don’t have to learn a lot of html this semester. And I like it. Anyway, we did this tutorial in class together and all helped each other when we got stuck, and it was actually fun. http://markdowntutorial.com/ There’s also this very interesting online Markdown editor that spits out html or other formats: https://stackedit.io/ and there are ten other ones. So while looking for a Macbook Markdown editor thing to play with today (because I just want to write natively in Markdown) I came across this—a variant of Markdown called “Multimarkdown” that will export to html, pdf, Latex, etc. There are math academics who want to get Markdown to the point where they never have to use Word again. I think that is a noble and inspiring goal. http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/ This was originally an email sent to a colleague. I find it easier to write to an individual than an imagined audience.