Intro

My notes on Markdown, a version of a markup language used for annotating text. It is used in documentation for GitHub so we all have to learn it.

What Is The Difference Between Markup and Markdown

From Stackoverflow: “Markdown vs markup - are they related?”

• Markup is a generic term for a language that describes a document's formatting

• Markdown is a specific markup library: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

Variants

Wikipedia has some good info on the different versions. Check it out at Markdown

• CommonMark

• GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec

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