---
name: "multimarkdown"
section: "1p"
platform: "linux"
package: "libtext-multimarkdown-perl"
version: "1.000035-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/multimarkdown/1p"
---

# multimarkdown(1p)

Convert MultiMarkdown syntax to (X)HTML

## NAME

multimarkdown - Convert MultiMarkdown syntax to (X)HTML

## DESCRIPTION

This program is distributed as part of Perl's Text::MultiMarkdown module, illustrating sample usage.

multimarkdown can be invoked on any file containing MultiMarkdown-syntax, and will produce the corresponding (X)HTML on STDOUT:

```
    $ 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 no file is specified, it will expect its input from STDIN:

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

## OPTIONS

- version

  Shows the full information for this version

- shortversion

  Shows only the version number

- html4tags

  Produce HTML 4-style tags instead of XHTML - XHTML requires elements that do not wrap a block (i.e. the `"hr"` tag) to state they will not be closed, by closing with `"/>"`. HTML 4-style will plainly output the tag as it comes:

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

- help

  Shows this documentation

## AUTHOR

Copyright 2004 John Gruber

Copyright 2006 Fletcher Penny

Copyright 2008 Tomas Doran

The manpage was written by Gunnar Wolf \<gwolf@debian.org\> for its use in Debian systems, but can be freely used elsewhere.

For full licensing information, please refer to Text::MultiMarkdown.pm's full documentation.

## SEE ALSO

Text::MultiMarkdown, \<http://fletcherpenney.net/What\_is\_MultiMarkdown\>