- How the Markdown format makes styled collaborative editing easy
- How Markdown differs from traditional formatting approaches
- How to use Markdown to format text
- How to leverage GitHub’s automatic Markdown rendering
- How to apply GitHub’s unique Markdown extensions
- Markdown is a way to style text on the web. You control the display of the document; formatting words as bold or italic, adding images, and creating lists are just a few of the things we can do with Markdown. Mostly, Markdown is just regular text with a few non-alphabetic characters thrown in, like # or *.
- You can use Markdown most places around GitHub:
- Gists
- Comments in Issues and Pull Requests
- Files with the .md or .markdown extension
- Here’s an overview of Markdown syntax that you can use anywhere on GitHub.com or in your own text files.
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