Markdown is a set of characters used to format text in compatible editors. For example, if you put one asterisk on *each side of a word or sentence*, the Markdown editor will show it in italics like this: each side of a word or sentence

To use it, all one has to do is memorize a small set of symbols and use them in a compatible editor. Since there are not a lot of formatting options, dominating and using Markdown is not hard.

Another way to think of Markdown is as a simpler version of HTML, which is the language used to make the pages you access online with a browser.

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