Write Markdown in Confluence With Mermaid, LaTeX & Code — One Editor, Live Preview
- Engineering teams who write docs in Markdown but live in Confluence
- Research/academic teams who need LaTeX math equations inside wiki pages
- Anyone tired of Markdown editors that drop Mermaid diagrams or render math as plain text
- How to write Markdown in Confluence with a live split preview
- Embedding Mermaid flowcharts and ZenUML sequence diagrams inside Markdown
- Rendering KaTeX and full LaTeX (MathJax) math — inline, block, and fenced
- GitHub-flavored tables, 190+ code languages, and dark mode
The scenario every technical team hits: your engineering docs live in Markdown — READMEs, API references, design docs — and they contain diagrams (Mermaid), equations (LaTeX), and code samples. You paste that Markdown into Confluence, and it falls apart. The Mermaid code blocks render as plain text. The LaTeX equations show as raw $...$ syntax. The code blocks lose their syntax highlighting. Confluence's native editor is WYSIWYG, not Markdown, and the import tools treat Markdown as a one-time conversion rather than something you edit live.
Enhanced Markdown for Confluence solves this with a Markdown editor that renders everything inline — Mermaid diagrams, KaTeX and LaTeX math, syntax-highlighted code, and GitHub-flavored tables — with a live split preview. It runs on the Quikdown engine, so all rendering libraries are bundled locally (no external CDN dependencies, which matters for "Runs on Atlassian" compliance). This guide walks through writing Markdown in Confluence with diagrams, math, and code all rendering live.