Learn Markdown: The Complete Guide on Markdown Formatting

by Khurshid Alam

Give web text in WordPress and GitHub a stunning formatting using the Markdown syntaxes. Markdown, opposite of the markup language, is basically a formatting method to write HTML pages. It uses punctuations and characters instead of coding. These syntaxes are very easy to learn. You don’t need to use opening and closing tags as you do in the Markup language. In Markdown, the formatting is done in structured style using syntaxes.Most of the Markdown editors have predefined formatting styles that you can simply apply to format the content. Moreover, you can apply a style by typing a syntax directly as well. The most beautiful thing is that if you don’t find any syntax for formatting in the native Markdown, you can simply use the Markup tags that you may use in normal HTML. All Markup codes are compatible with the Markdown editing tools.Use of Markdown1 Create HMTL pagesMarkdown is a lightweight plain text file and is widely used for standalone web pages and single HTML pages such as readme, user license, privacy policy, terms & conditions, FAQs, email notifications, discussion forums, blogs, wikis, and others.2 Author Web Help(i) You can use Markdown to create Web Help for handheld devices and HTML5 pages.(ii) Give web text in WordPress and GitHub a stunning formatting. For this, you need to integrate a Markdown plugin in WordPress and GitHub.3 Convert to Multiple OutputsIn Markdown, the document is formatted in a single source and can be easily converted to multiple output/formats including HTML, Word, PDF, other outputs depending on the tools you use.What the book ‘Learn Markdown’ 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 into 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.

46 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 20, 2018

Reviews

[Jeffrey · Rating 3 out of 5]

This could have been useful, but it is not. The use of discursive prose makes for a yawning read. The real nuggets are buried and formatted in a way that makes it hard to see the result.