Markdown

Markdown is a plain text markup language intended to be rendered as a web page. Variants and extensions exist.

The Markdown markup at a glance:

...
 * 1) Heading
 * 2) Heading
 * 3) Heading
 * 1) Heading

Alternative heading markup

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Alternative heading markup --

Paragraph text spanning two lines, featuring _italics_, __boldface__, `code`, and a [hyperlink](http://en.wikibooks.org/). Also possible are *italics* and **boldface**, and as an extension, strikethrough.

Bulleted list: * item 1 * item 2 * item 3

Numbered list: 1. item 1 2. item 2 3. item 3

The above is a horizontal rule. Let me quote: > This is formatted > as a block quote.