Which version of MultiMarkdown is used?

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Something for the Dev team:

Which version of MultiMarkdown is used to render Markdown documents? And is it the same version on macOS and iOS? And are any commandline options set?

I’m curious, because I sometimes render Markdown documents outside DTP (before entering them into DTP) and would like to use the same Multimarkdown version.

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DEVONthink uses MultiMarkdown 5 on iOS & macOS (but not the command line tool, it’s integrated into the apps instead).

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Thanks for this, Christian.

Following up on this, what are you doing with MutliMarkdown’s metadata block at the beginning of a Markdown document?

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Well, the use of the metadata inside the Markdown text works.

But what I hoped for (or expected) was that the title metadata is used for the title of the document in DTP; furthermore I was hoping (or better dreaming about) that tags could be added to a Markdown document the same way. So a text file

Title: The Whereabouts of the Red Cat
Tags: cat, red, story

# The Whereabouts of the Red Cat

Once upon a time down in an old farmer's house lived a red cat  
.  
.  
.

would after import show up in DTP as a Markdown record named “The Whereabouts of the Red Cat” and tagged with cat, red and story.

But I don’t think this is possible yet.

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No, that’s not possible yet. DEVONthink’s import uses the filename and the Finder’s tags.

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I’ve learned from DEVONthink manual that MultiMarkdown 6.6.0 is used as of DEVONthink 3.7.

Not sure if I should reply to this old thread. I just think it would be appropriate to update it in the same thread.

Also @cgrunenberg , I’m not sure if the MultiMarkdown syntax guide link in the DT manual should be updated to something like MultiMarkdown User's Guide , currently it still refers to MultiMarkdown Syntax Guide · fletcher/MultiMarkdown Wiki · GitHub . Maybe that’s just for MultiMarkdown 2? There seems to be multiple major versions of MultiMarkdown, and each has its own repository and doc site. I might have to read in detail to see which doc/site has up-to-date info.

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I’ll look into this and update the documentation. Thanks for the heads-up! :slight_smile: