Markdown

Markdown is a document encoding format which is optimized for authoring delight rather than ease of parsing. It was introduced by John Gruber in 2004 when he wrote a Perl script to convert markdown-formatted text files to HTML. Markdown allows structuring documents with the least number of keystrokes, minimum verbosity and maximum clarity in a plain text setting.

Example

# This is a level 1 heading

## This is a level 2 heading

This is text in **bold** and _italics_, and this is an external link to
[DocOps](https://docops.guide). Now, some bullet points:

* Bullet point 1
* Bullet point 2
* Bullet point 3