Robust conversion to and from HTML, the language of the web, without the extra junk code from cumbersome WYSIWYG editors and MS Word.Can be quickly edited in any text editor, e.g., Sublime Text 2 or Vim.Abundance of styles, themes and Markdown flavors, e.g., I can add my own custom CSS stylesheets to Marked.Plenty of apps and web services to choose from.In other words, we store formatting meta data in the text itself which is later converted by apps or online services into beautiful documents. So what is it? Markdown is a special syntax that consists of regular characters, e.g., #, *,, which in turn allow for rich formatting without interfering with text readability. Even the so called re-invented web publishing experience Medium doesn’t support Markdown, but many other services and apps including my favorites (ByWord and LeanPub) build their whole flow around Markdown! In fact, I’m such a huge fan of Markdown that I’m writing my daily journals in it as well as this blog post. However, she is not familiar with the powerful and convenient Markdown because it’s still a rather unknown approach to publishing except for an elite circle of early adopters and technology professionals. She is an experienced content and copy editor and has worked for magazines and book publishers. “What is a Markdown?” my editor asked me the other day. TL DR: Know and use Markdown because it’s fast and convenient.

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