Markdown

Markdown is a way of easily writing text with a dual purpose. On the way hand, Markdown text can be published in straight vanilla form, as plain text. On the other hand, the text can be processed and nicely formatted e.g. headings, emphasis, indents, lists and so on. Markdown achieves this in a unique way; the text is highly readable in it’s original form.

Here’s some sample text in it’s original form:

Dear Mark, *thank you* for providing such a great service. I **truly** wish you the best. By the way, please do not forget the following:

+ Please send me a free t-shirt and pen.

+ What other freebies can you give me?

Here is the same text after it’s been processed:

Dear Mark, thank you for providing such a great service. I truly wish you the best. By the way, please do not forget the following:

• Please send me a free t-shirt and pen.

• What other freebies can you give me?

As you can see, text was emphasised by using asterisks. Words were made strong by using double asterisks. We could of used underscores instead.

The list was created by simply putting a plus sign at the beginning of the line, we could of also used an asterisk or minus sign.

# Hash characters create headings

## Simply use more hash characters for sub-headings

> Lines which begin with a right angle bracket
> are treated as block quotes, just like email.

A link can be created by placing text in square brackets followed by the link itself in round brackets, like this:

[nuvi.be](http://nuvi.be/).

An image is very similar to a link with the addition of ! in front, like this:


For the technically minded, see Markdown’s full syntax.