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When you are finished with your text and are happy with it, simply save the Markdown file. The left frame is where you write your text and the right frame shows you what the formatted text will look like in HTML: Most Markdown editors have two panes to write and preview the text Markdown editors are generally set up to show two frames. Not only that, many of these editors will let you write your text and show you what the Web page will look like (called rendering) at the same time. I will avoid the command line here since there are many outstanding Markdown editors that can do this conversion for you. Basically, it reads the Markdown text that you create and builds a Web page from it. John Gruber’s Markdown is a Perl script that is run on the command line. A sampling of some of Markdown’s syntax is shown this screenshot: Markdown to HTML conversion So how do I make this plain text to HTML conversion? If you want a title on your Web page, Markdown will create one based on the character(s) you use in front of your title.

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Markdown, however, is more than an easy formatting scheme, it is also a software tool that converts the plain text formatting to HTML. “It isn’t what you see is what you get, but what you see is what you mean”. Someone once described Markdown to me this way: Actually, Markdown is an great way to format plain text even if you don’t have to convert to HTML. Markdown then, is just a way to create Web pages without the need (or even know how) to write HTML code. These files can then be turned into Web pages – and Web pages are built using a markup called HTML. They are plain text files so they can be created using any text editor on any computer. Markdown files follow a specific syntax that is easy to read and just as easy to write.

If you are new to Markdown, it is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.

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Markdown basic syntax and how to use them.

In this article, I am going to share my experience with Markdown. I use Markdown for nearly all of my writing and it is a major time-saver for me. I can include class notes here, too I needed to write them for nearly every class. In my work, I often have to write code, write the documentation that goes with that code, create Web pages, and work on text restoration projects, and have written several formal papers while I was in school.

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