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 [https://github.com/vmg/sundown%|%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|&

'''[escargo] - 2013-04-06''' - Attempts to follow the link above returned,
"The requested URL /fossil/r/tclsundown was not found on this server."

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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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'''[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/

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