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Markdown

Markdown is an amazing markup language. Its main strength is its simplicity, and the other one is its omnipresence.

This is what most developers use to write readmes, documentation, books, websites etc.. For example all of the textual content of this website is written in Markdown (using a static site generator).

Here are the features you will use the most :

# Title
## Subtitle
### Sub-subtitle

*italic text*

**bold text**

[a link](https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet)

 - A
 - bullet
 - point
 - list

Which renders as :

Title

Subtitle​

Sub-subtitle​

italic text

bold text

a link

  • A
  • bullet
  • point
  • list
tip

As you can see the Markdown syntax is very light and doesn't hurt the source text's libility (unlike html).

You can learn more about the Markdown syntax here.