HedgeDoc

HedgeDoc is a collaborative Markdown editor that allows multiple users to edit documents in real-time.

Authentication

Access HedgeDoc by authenticating with your Life Science ID (LS ID) credentials. For details on how to get and use LS ID, please refer to our LS Login documentation.

Markdown Flavor

HedgeDoc uses HedgeDoc-Flavored Markdown (HFM), which extends standard Markdown with additional features. You can find the full reference for HFM here.

Information

By default, HedgeDoc interprets single line breaks in your Markdown literally, rendering them as <br> tags in the output HTML. If you prefer the standard Markdown behavior (where a single newline in source is ignored unless preceded by two spaces), you can disable this by setting the breaks frontmatter option to false.

Frontmatter Metadata

HedgeDoc supports various metadata options defined in the document's frontmatter (the YAML block at the very top of your Markdown file). These options can control aspects like document visibility, permissions, and behavior.

Example:

---
breaks: false
---

This is a paragraph.
This is still the same paragraph in standard Markdown.

You can find a complete list and explanation of available frontmatter metadata here.