markdown

markdown is plain text that 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 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.