Mandown provides simple extensions to Markdown that are useful for academic writing. Using Mandown and a Markdown processor (such as Pandoc), manuscripts can be converted into useful formats such as RTF (which can be read by MS Word), PDF, LaTeX etc.

• Development Status: 1 - Planning, 2 - Pre-Alpha
• Environment: Console (Text Based)
• Intended Audience: End Users/Desktop
• License: GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3
• Natural Language: English
• Operating System: OS Independent, POSIX
• Programming Language: Ruby
• Topic: Text Processing