Markdown

Author

Andrew Grogan-Kaylor

Published

March 13, 2026

markdown is plain text that is designed to be easily readable by humans, and at the same time is marked with a set of very simple tags to produce formatted text.

The basic idea is simple, as indicated below. More information about markdown can be found here.

# This is a first level heading

## This is a second level heading

This is normal text.

*This text is in italics*.

**This text is bold.**

`This text is in monospaced font, often used to represent code.`

This is an equation: $y = mx + b$

This text renders as follows:

This is a first level heading

This is a second level heading

This is normal text.

This text is in italics.

This text is bold.

This text is in monospaced font, often used to represent code.

This is an equation: \(y = mx + b\)