Plain text is the best way to make sure your writing is accessible across a variety of platforms and devices. Markdown is a lightweight formatting syntax that offers formatting and typography ...

Many of the TUAW writers (and readers!) are fans of John Gruber's Markdown, so we tend to review both iOS and Mac apps that support Markdown. If you don't know what Markdown is or how to use it ...

Using Markdown Like an Academic Markdown, a text formatting syntax designed for easy readability but also transformability, gets a lot of love from geeks. Lincoln Mullen has written a great ...

You can finally use Markdown syntax to add bold, italics, strikethrough, and more.

Google recently expanded the ability to use Markdown in Google Docs, Slides, and Drawings. Use this guide to decide if it's a typing style you want to use.

Markdown is a “lightweight markup language for applying formatting using plain text.” Google Docs already recognizes some Markdown syntax, and is now expanding its support. In addition to * or ...

You can also use Marked with other Markdown processors—or even non-Markdown syntax processors—by adding them in Marked’s preferences dialog.

Markdown is very flexible—perhaps too flexible. Markdown was not the first text-to-HTML converter, but it was simple and took most of its shorthand syntax from the real world.

Ryan Cordell discusses another use for Markdown: creating interactive code notebooks for teaching the R programming language to humanities students.