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)"
What: tclsundown Where: http://jeremy.cowgar.com/fossil/r/tclsundown 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:[email protected]
dkf - 2011-11-14 04:41:17
The most notable use of the Markdown format is on the site Stack Overflow , but it is in use in other places too.
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. http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/