Markdown

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Markdown is a plain text format for writing structured documents, based on conventions for indicating formatting in email and usenet posts.The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions.


The Markdown Guide Markdown format and best practices Dillinger - Online Markdown Compiler Syntax highlighting Github flavored markdown You can add an optional language identifier to enable syntax highlighting in your fenced code block.

For example, to syntax highlight Ruby code:

require 'redcarpet'
markdown = Redcarpet.new("Hello World!")
puts markdown.to_html

Rendered code block with Ruby syntax highlighting

We use Linguist to perform language detection and to select third-party grammars for syntax highlighting. You can find out which keywords are valid in the languages YAML file.