Markdown

Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax designed so that it can be converted to HTML and many other formats using a tool by the same name.

Markdown is often used to format readme files, for writing messages in online discussion forums, and to create rich text using a plain text editor.

See also

• AsciiDoc, supports many document types
• Comparison of document markup languages
• Comparison of documentation generators
• Markup language
• Org-mode
• txt2tags
• Wiki markup

External links

• Markdown @ Wikipedia