Markdown

Markdown is a very lightweight plain text markup language for writing documentation. It is easy to read, easy to write, and easy to render to other markup languages like HTML.

Every document needs a few headings, numbered or unnumbered lists, bold, italic, and underline, links, images, tables, and the like. With Markdown these can be specified with simple common characters.

Markdown can easily be rendered to HTML, for example, and there is also tooling that can render it to Word documents or PDF files.

By Convention the file extension for Markdown files is .md.

Frontmatter is an “extension” of Markdown that allows for adding meta data.

By default links in Markdown use the following syntax:

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More modern tools support the Wiki Syntax:

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Here the text of the link and the target of the link are identical to the name of the document that is referenced. This is much easier to read and to type.

For more information on the Markdown syntax, see https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/ Open external link .