Markdown

This is just here for me as a fancy bookmark, on how to write proper Markdown formatted files for GitHub^{1 2}.

From the source⁵:

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

Thus, “Markdown” is two things:

1. a plain text formatting syntax; and
2. a converter which formats the plain text to HTML.

References

[1] GitHub - Markdown Basics

https://help.github.com/articles/markdown-basics/

[2] GitHub - GitHub Flavored Markdown

https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown/

[3] Markdown Cheatsheet

https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet

[4] Original Markdown Location

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

[5] Wikipedia - Markdown

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown