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Markdown is a lightweight markup language, originally created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz allowing people "to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML)".
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- Click 'HTML Preview' button.
emphasis
strong
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block quote
code (4 spaces indent)
- 17-Feb-2013 re-design