TeXdowN is a lightweight alternative to LaTeX for writing short texts with math equations. While TeXdowN is heavily influenced by Markdown it is NOT Markdown + MathJax. TeXDown is a work in progress.
- Markdown does not support math formula by itself.
- Markdown is hard to parse.
- Markdown is not well defined and even this 116 pages long (!!!) Spec does not solve all the quirks of Markdown.
- Markdown does not support underlined text.
| TeXdowN | Html |
|---|---|
| *bold* | bold |
| _underline_ | underline |
| /italic/ | italic |
| # h1 | |
| ## h2 | |
| ### h3 | |
| #### h4 | |
| ##### h5 | |
| ###### h6 | |
| [link](http://example.com) | link |
|  | |
| $a^2 + b^2 = c^ 2$ | |
| $$ a^2 + b^2 = c^ 2 $$ |
See live example at tex.ninja