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Markdown is a lightweight text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write [[Markup language|markup language]] that is saved in [[Plain text|plain text]] format. It is often used as a lightweight text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.


Thus, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML.
Markdown's [https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax syntax] is relatively easy to learn and apply, and gives structure to documents that is easily converted to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).


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Latest revision as of 14:48, 11 October 2021

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown

Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write markup language that is saved in plain text format. It is often used as a lightweight text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.

Markdown's syntax is relatively easy to learn and apply, and gives structure to documents that is easily converted to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).