Khurshid Alam

Learn Markdown Khurshid Alam

Markdown is a plain text formatting method. Formatting is done in structured style using syntax, which is basically punctuations and characters. You don't need to use opening and closing tags as you do in Markup language. In Markdown, you don't need to create any styles for formatting; you can apply a style by typing a syntax. However, many of the Markdown editors have predefined styles that you need to simply apply to format content. In case, you don't find any syntax for formatting, you can simply use the tags that you may use in normal HTML. Markdown is a lightweight plain text file and is best preferred for the web-based content, standalone web pages, and single HTML pages such as readme, user license, privacy policy, terms & conditions, FAQs, email text, discussion forums, blogs, wikis, and others. It also gives good result for the Help files for handheld devices and HTML5. In Markdown, the document is formatted in a single source and can be easily converted to multiple formats including HTML, Word, PDF, other outputs based on the tools you use. Most of the blogging platforms have plugins for Markdown including Blogger, GitHub, Medium, Reddit, Tumblr, WordPress and it can be synchronized with Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, and Tumblr. Several programming languages (e.g., JavaScript, Perl, Python) support Markdown. What the book 'Learn Markdown: The Complete Guide on Markdown Formatting' Offers?This book is intended for technical authors, software programmers, UI experts, and all those who write for the web. In this book, the author has included the syntaxes available in most of the tools to give you a complete hands-on guide on Markdown editing with a focus not to miss out even a single syntax. You can simply use these syntaxes to reflect the desired result in the tools you use. This book is a must-have reference book for Markdown syntaxes. After reading this book, you can work in any Markdown editor. The book is divided in three sections. The first section introduces about Markdown and its history, the second one explains all the syntaxes, and the third one has the keyboard shortcuts for syntaxes.