Welcome to the kramdown site

kramdown (sic, not Kramdown or KramDown, just kramdown) is a free GPL-licensed Ruby library for parsing and converting a superset of Markdown. It is completely written in Ruby, supports standard Markdown (with some minor modifications) and various extensions that have been made popular by the PHP Markdown Extra package and Maruku.

It is probably the fastest pure-Ruby Markdown converter available (January 2011), being about 4x faster than Maruku and about 5x faster than BlueFeather.

The latest version of kramdown is 0.13.4 and it was released on 2011-12-16.

Overview

If you want to get started with kramdown, have a look at the installation page to see how you can install it on your system. Then look through the documentation for finding information about how to actually use kramdown and its parsers/converters. The syntax page provides a detailed description of the superset of Markdown which kramdown supports.

Bugs, Forums, Mailing Lists

If you have found a bug, you should report it here. Also, there are forums and mailing lists available if you have any questions!

Thanks

kramdown would not be possible without the prior work of many other people. I want to thank everyone involved with making Markdown such a nice markup language and especially the developers of other Markdown implementations because kramdown borrowed many ideas from existing packages.

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