org: Markdown export
12.8 Markdown export
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‘md’ export back-end generates Markdown syntax(1) for an Org mode
buffer.
It is built over HTML back-end: any construct not supported by
Markdown syntax (e.g., tables) will be controlled and translated by
‘html’ back-end (HTML export).
Markdown export commands
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‘C-c C-e m m (org-md-export-to-markdown)’
Export as a text file written in Markdown syntax. For an Org file,
‘myfile.org’, the resulting file will be ‘myfile.md’. The file
will be overwritten without warning.
‘C-c C-e m M (org-md-export-as-markdown)’
Export to a temporary buffer. Do not create a file.
‘C-c C-e m o’
Export as a text file with Markdown syntax, then open it.
Header and sectioning structure
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Markdown export can generate both ‘atx’ and ‘setext’ types for
headlines, according to ‘org-md-headline-style’. The former introduces
a hard limit of two levels, whereas the latter pushes it to six.
Headlines below that limit are exported as lists. You can also set a
soft limit before that one (Export settings).
---------- Footnotes ----------
(1) Vanilla flavor, as defined at
<http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>.