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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of MarkDown


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Timestamp:
Jun 25, 2012, 3:10:30 PM (12 years ago)
Author:
Christian Boos
Comment:

short intro for markdown

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  • MarkDown

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     1= Markdown
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     3[http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics/ Markdown] is a semi-structured markup language originally designed for blogs which is now used in several wikis as well.
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     5It's now widely used in the software developer community because it's the preferred authoring markup used by GitHub and StackOverflow.
     6See [http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/ Introduction to GFM] and  [http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help/ Markdown help] respectively for what variant is supported in each.
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     9A lot of this is close to WikiCreole, ReST and our own markup. See also TracDev/Proposals/AdvancedWikiFormatting for some things that could be stolen from it.