Title: A MultiMarkdown Primer Author: Nate Dickson Date: Tuesday, December 18, 2012
#What Is Markdown? Markdown is a way to semantically format your text instead of stylistically formatting it. Markdown uses a set of simple and (somewhat) meaningful marks to set enrich plain text files in a way that makes sense to both humans and computers. Humans can create and style a markdown document, and then use software to render that document in any of a number of formats, depending on what is required. Markdown excels and creating HTML documents, PDF's, ![latex] documents, and other formats.
#How Do You Use It? Markdown documents are plain text files, nothing more. You use Markdown files the way you would any other text file, with simple, easy-to-remember formatting that allows it to be turned into other formats as required.