Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as an easy-to-read markup language. Markdown is widely used for blogging, instant messaging, and large language models, and also used elsewhere in online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files.
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Markdown is designed to "optionally convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML)." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
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John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as an easy-to-read markup language.
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This was addressed in 2014 when long-standing Markdown contributors released CommonMark, an unambiguous specification and test suite for Markdown.
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