Markdown is a way to style text on the web. You control the display of the document; formatting words as bold or italic, adding images, and creating lists are just a few of the things we can do with Markdown. Mostly, Markdown is just regular text with a few non-alphabetic characters thrown in, like # or *.
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- Gists
- Comments in Issues and Pull Requests
- Files with the .md or .markdown extension
- For more information, see “Writing on GitHub” in the GitHub Help.