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Markdown is a lightweight and human readable markup format for text formatting created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz. It is similar to various forms of wiki markup. There is no formal specification for the original Markdown, and it has ambiguities that are handled inconsistently by different implementations.An attempt to improve on this situation was done (released 2014-09) by a group unrelated to the originators of Markdown, and was originally dubbed Standard Markdown until John Gruber objected to this name, and it was first renamed "Common Markdown" and later CommonMark. Markdeep is an extended Markdown implemented in JavaScript for web use.
Markdown is written to be read as it is, which is its strength until the moment somebody needs a document rather than a text file. Converting an MD file to PDF gives you fixed pages, working headings and a layout that looks the same on every machine — the right form for a specification, a report or anything going to a printer. Converting to DOCX hands the same content to Word, where a colleague can track changes and comment without ever seeing a hash mark.
The conversion also runs the other way, and that direction is often the more useful one. A DOCX or ODT file turned into Markdown becomes something you can keep in Git, diff line by line and edit in any editor — which is how documentation ends up living beside the code it describes instead of drifting away from it in a shared drive.
HTML sits naturally in between. Markdown was designed as a shorthand for it, so the conversion is close to lossless and gives you something you can paste straight into a page or a newsletter. Whichever direction you need, the text stays plain and the formatting arrives with it.
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