What is Markdown?
Markdown is a plain text way of formatting documents while keeping the content readable. Developed in 2004, many variations of markdown language exist. Developer John Gruber has an overview of markdown on his website Daring Fireball
It’s a plain text format for writing structured documents, based on formatting conventions from email and usenet.
What distinguishes Markdown from many other lightweight markup syntaxes... is its readability.
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For example, with Pandoc
↳ Created Jul-25-2020 / Updated Oct-20-2020