Markdown
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Language editing format #
Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber and Aaron Swartz created Markdown in 2004 as a markup language that is intended to be easy to read in its source code form. Markdown is widely used for blogging and instant messaging, and also used elsewhere in online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files. wikipedia
Some apps, services and editors support Markdown as an editing format, including: #
Bugzilla uses a customized version of Markdown
ChatGPT: Output from the AI model formatted in Markdown will be rendered in LaTeX and HTML by the ChatGPT client, and the model is encouraged to use Markdown to format its output. Markdown provided by the user will not be formatted by the client, but will still be passed to the AI model unaltered.
Discord: chat messages Discourse uses the CommonMark flavor of Markdown in the forum post composer.
Doxygen: a source code documentation generator which supports Markdown with extra features
Github Flavored Markdown (GFM) ignores underscores in words, and adds syntax highlighting, task lists,[49] and tables[31]
The GNOME Evolution email client supports composing messages in Markdown format,[50] with the ability to send and render emails in pure Markdown format (Content-Type: text/markdown;) or to convert Markdown to plaintext or HTML email when sending.
Joplin: a note-taking application that supports markdown formatting[51]
JotterPad: an online WYSIWYG editor that supports Markdown and Fountain[52]
Kanboard uses the standard Markdown syntax as its only formatting syntax for task descriptions.[53]
Microsoft Azure DevOps’ wiki feature has its own implementation[54]
Microsoft Teams: chat messages[55]
Misskey, its numerous forks and other Fediverse platforms such as Akkoma[56] use a custom Markdown format, with support for mentions, tags, automatic URL detection and preview, custom emoji, furigana, specifying a font family, text blurring, search boxes, adding borders and transformations such as flipping, shifting, rotating, scaling, animating.[57] Since ActivityPub objects that can be consumed as messages at such microblogging platforms need to specify a message format, in this case text/x.misskeymarkdown needs to be used. Most clients will either store the default or mostly recently used formatting in the session or settings storage, so this needs not to be manually specified for each message.
The Mozilla Thunderbird email client supports Markdown through the “Markdown here Revival” add-on. Nextcloud Notes: the default app for taking notes on the Nextcloud platform supports formatting using Markdown[58]
Obsidian is note-taking software based on Markdown files.[59]
RMarkdown[60]
RStudio: an IDE for R. It provides a C++ wrapper function for a markdown variant called sundown[61]
Simplenote[62]