'''[http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/%|%Markdown]''' is a [lightweight markup languages%|%lightweight markup language]. ** Description ** Originally created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz, Markdown allows people "to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML or [HTML]. It is used to make the sources of static web pages more human readable, and it is also more pleasant to write in than [HTML]. It has been used as a [wiki] formatting language, for example at [http://www.stackoverflow.com%|%StackOverflow]. ---- '''[anoved] - 2012-12-20 19:22:24''' A variant of Markdown is heavily used at GitHub, a [git] repository host, for formatting Readmes, issues, and other comments. https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown/ [HJG] 2013-09-22 - Another variant of Markdown: http://txt2tags.org/. It uses python, and supports output to HTML, XHTML, SGML, DocBook, LaTeX, Lout, Man page, Creole, Wikipedia/MediaWiki, Google Code Wiki, PmWiki, DokuWiki, MoinMoin, MagicPoint, PageMaker, AsciiDoc, ASCII Art, Plain text. ** Tools ** [TclSundown] (missing in action): Tcl wrapper around Sundown, a Markdown processor ([AK], Nov 9, 2014: I have a copy of Jeremy's Fossil repository. If anybody is interested I can put it up somewhere). [tclhoedown]: Tcl wrapper around Hoedown, a Markdown processor forked from Sundown (Sundown is no longer maintained) [caius]: The CAIUS project has a pure Tcl package for processing Markdown. http://chiselapp.com/user/juef/repository/tclsoldout/%|%TclSoldout%|%: Tcl binding to libsoldout ** See Also ** [MultiMarkdown]: an extended version of Markdown <> Word and Text Processing | HTML