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Markdown [9] is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as an easy-to-read markup language. [9] Markdown is widely used for blogging and instant messaging, and also used elsewhere in online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files.
MkDocs converts Markdown files into HTML pages, effectively creating a static website containing documentation.. Markdown is extensible, and the MkDocs ecosystem exploits its extensible nature through a number of extensions [2] [3] that help with for autogenerating documentation from source code, adding admonitions, writing mathematical notation, inserting footnotes, highlighting source code etc.
Markdown - simple plaintext markup popular as language of blog/cms posts and comments, multiple implementations. [2] Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) TeX, LaTeX – a format for describing complex type and page layout often used for mathematics, technical, and academic publications.
Obsidian is a personal knowledge base and note-taking software application that operates on Markdown files. [3] [4] [5] It allows users to make internal links for notes and then to visualize the connections as a graph. [6] [7] It is designed to help users organize and structure their thoughts and knowledge in a flexible, non-linear way. [8]
Generally, coding can be copied and pasted, without writing new code. There is a short list of markup and tips at Help:Cheatsheet . In addition to wikitext, some HTML elements are also allowed for presentation formatting.
For advice on writing style and formatting in a bullet-point format, see Wikipedia:Styletips; For summaries of some Wikipedia protocols and conventions, see Wikipedia:Dos and don'ts; If you don't want to use wikitext markup, try Wikipedia:VisualEditor instead; To ask a question, see Wikipedia:Questions to locate the appropriate venue(s)
A common feature of many markup languages is that they intermix the text of a document with markup instructions in the same data stream or file. This is not necessary; it is possible to isolate markup from text content, using pointers, offsets, IDs, or other methods to coordinate the two.
In 2004, screenwriter John August was looking for a Markdown-like syntax for formatting text documents into screenplay form. In 2008, he and Yousefi released Scrippets, a plug-in for WordPress and other platforms that allowed users to embed short sections of a screenplay in blog posts and forums, using formatting hinted from plain text.