Markdown
Using markdown to create any kind of document
2 minutes
A few weeks ago I had to submit the contents of a GitHub repository to my teacher for grading. I wanted to use my readme.md-file while my teacher asked for a Word or a PDF document. Then I discovered this amazing program which converts Markdown to any desirable format! Almost every programmer knows Markdown, right? The Markdown syntax is widely used on GitHub and in readme-files . Markdown was developed by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz as a tool to convert plain text files in the syntactic language with the same name to HTML.