Markdown

5 November 2019 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 9 June 2021Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax. Its design allows it to be converted to many output formats. Markdown is often used to format in-source documentation (e.g., a README). There are many different flavors of Markdown, each using a common core specification but adding additional features of their own. Table of Contents: Specifications Learning Markdown Specifications John Gruber’s Markdown page discusses the original flavor CommonMark is a proposal for a standard, unambiguous Markdown syntax specification GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec describes the dialect of Markdown supported …

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