Biggest MultiMarkdown update yet!

07/31/2011 21:16:33

Yes — there’s a lot going on in “MultiMarkdownLand” at the moment. But I haven’t forgotten about the program that is at the center of it all…

MultiMarkdown 3.1 is now in beta, and includes the following updates:

fix bug in parsing table captions
fix bug in parsing table column alignments
add back support for tabulary in LaTeX
fix bug in ODF output
don’t match URL on first line as metadata
fix bug when manually specifying a label for headers
fix crash on certain table format
improve citation support in ODF
don’t output \end{doc} on LaTeX snippets
parse MultiMarkdown inside terms of definition lists
don’t output empty id attribute on images
add --nosmart and --nonotes options to disable smart typography and footnotes
improve parsing of single quotes
don’t trip over UTF-8 BOM at beginning of file
don’t allow nested <script> blocks
include other interim fixes from peg-markdown
fix bug in Metadata parsing that could be the cause of the runaway multimarkdown processes some people are seeing
performance improvements
improved --compatibility option that turns off all MultiMarkdown-specific features and emulates Markdown. The best Markdown program out there can now be MultiMarkdown!
improved testing for compatibility with the original Markdown
added --nolabels option that turns off automatic cross-referencing for a pretty big performance boost

And most importantly:

Glib2 is no longer required on the Mac OS X version!!!
MultiMarkdown is now easily included in other Mac OS X applications, either as a library, or as an included binary

Thanks to Daniel Jalkut, MMD is now able to run on Mac OS X without the installation of the Glib2 libraries. It is a self-contained binary without any external library dependencies, and relaxed machine/OS requirement. In fact, I have even run a test version of it on an old PowerPC G3 iBook running 10.4.11. The version I have compiled in the downloads section should run on 32 or 64 bit machines, on Mac OS X 10.7, 10.6, and 10.5. Once I get Xcode 3 reinstalled, I hope that the next version released will run on PowerPC machines running 10.4 as well.

This should improve compatibility with tons of older Macs out there!!!

For those who are interested — work is still progressing on the new Mac OS X MultiMarkdown editor, MultiMarkdown Composer. I’m still tracking down a few glitches and making some improvements, but it’s already become my editor of choice for MMD files, and has some pretty useful features. More to come, but I’m excited about it!

As always, you can download an installer here:

https://github.com/fletcher/peg-multimarkdown/downloads/

Old Comments

By Carter on August 1,2011 02:43:59

I contributed a few commits to Daniel’s fork as well, where I added support for embedding the library in an iOS application (which use armv6 and armv7 architectures). Everything has been working without problems, and I’m working on some example code for using it via Objective-C.

By Fletcher on August 1,2011 07:29:15

There’s still a few kinks to be worked out - after pulling his latest commits last night, it turns out my build did not work on 10.5. I think I got the changes reverted to allow running on 10.5 (not able to test 10.4 or ppc yet).

Also, there’s a few glitches in his changes that broke some of the citation features that I reverted in my glibfree branch.

But this will be incredibly useful when it all becomes more stable!!

Fletcher Thompson Penney owner@fletcherpenney.net

Biggest MultiMarkdown update yet!

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