Markdown is a lightweight markup language, originally created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz allowing people "to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML)"

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 What: '''tclsundown'''
 Where: http://jeremy.cowgar.com/fossil/tclsundown.cgi
 Description: Tcl wrapper around the popular Sundown C library. Provides the ability to convert text
    from the '''markdown''' format into [HTML] and [XHTML]. It implements many extensions to markdown as well
    including SmartyPants which translates plain [ASCII] punctuation characters into “smart” typographic
    punctuation HTML entities
 Updated: 11/2011
 Contact: [jnc] - mailto:jeremy@cowgar.com
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'''[dkf] - 2011-11-14 04:41:17'''

The most notable use of the Markdown format is on the site [http://stackoverflow.com/%|%Stack Overflow], but it is in use in other places too.

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