1 Markdown

• Markdown is a document format designed for easy typing and reading. The basic idea is that Markdown is typed as simple text, but “looks like” how it would be formatted.

There are many dialects of Markdown

• CoWem uses PegDown, which unfortunately lacks a comprehensive description of its accepted syntax.

• It’s probably closest to MultiMarkdown, which has a convenient syntax cheat sheet

• Mathematics support is via MathJax

  • MathJax allows Cowem to support mathematics typed in either LaTeX style or AsciiMath.
  • MathJax has a live demo page, which can be a convenient way to try out math expressions.

• Syntax highlighting (coloring) of program source code is provided via HighlightJS.

3 Building

• CoWeM is implemented as a collection of Gradle plugins.

• The CoWeM project itself resides here.