AI Creator's Path News: Writing becomes easier! Markdown makes it easy for anyone to create rich text. Perfect for blogs and document creation! #Markdown #TextFormat #DocumentCreation
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What is Markdown? A thorough explanation of the super simple writing technique!
Hello everyone! I'm John, the administrator of the blog "Let's ride the AI wave!". This time, I'll explain "Markdown," which is quietly gaining popularity in the world of blogs and writing, in an easy-to-understand way even for AI beginners. It's not difficult at all! With Markdown, anyone can easily write easy-to-read sentences.
Is Markdown a magic spell?
Simply put, Markdown is a set of symbols to decorate text. But it's not just symbols. When you use these symbols, the text you write will be displayed beautifully on a web page, or the document will be easy to read, as if by magic!
For example, when you make text bold or create a heading in Word, you click on various buttons, right? With Markdown, you can do that just by entering certain symbols. It's a real writing trick!
A brief history of Markdown
Markdown was created in 2004 by John Gruber in collaboration with Aaron Swartz. It was inspired by a desire to make it easier to style text when writing blogs or sharing information. It originally became popular among people who wrote technical blogs, but is now used in a variety of places.
Basics of Markdown
Writing Markdown is very simple. Let's look at some examples.
- Make a headline: Add a "#" to the beginning of the line. You can change the size of the heading by changing the number of "#"s.
- Highlight text: If you surround the text with "*" (asterisks),ItalicIf you enclose it in "**",Taizi will be important.
- Make a list: You can create a bulleted list by putting an "*" or "-" at the beginning of a line.
- Post a link :
[リンクのテキスト](URL)For example,[Google](https://www.google.com)This will create a link to Google.
By simply combining these symbols, you can easily create various decorations such as headings, lists, emphasis, etc. Unlike Word, you can save the trouble of searching for buttons one by one, so you can write text much faster!
Benefits of using Markdown
There are many benefits to using Markdown.
- It's easy anyway!: No complicated operations required. Anyone can use it easily by just memorizing the symbols.
- The text is easy to read!: Text written in Markdown has a clean appearance and is easy to read.
- Can be used in a variety of places!: Markdown is supported in a variety of tools, including blogs, document creation, and notepads.
- You can save it in text format!: Markdown files are saved in text format, so there is less risk of the file being corrupted.
For example, if you write a blog post in Markdown, you can easily create a web page even if you don't have knowledge of HTML (a language for creating web pages). Also, when writing programming documents, you can use Markdown to efficiently create documents that are easy to read and organized.
A few limitations of Markdown
Markdown is very useful, but it can also be a little tricky. For example,
- Creating Complex Tables: You can create tables in Markdown, but it can be a bit difficult to create a table with a sophisticated design.
- Fine lettering decoration: I'm not good at detailed decoration such as changing the color of text or the type of font.
But it has more than enough features for basic writing, and if you need more advanced styling, you can combine it with other tools like HTML.
Markdown friends
There are several different types of Markdown, each with slightly different features.
- CommonMark: It aims to standardize Markdown so that it can be used commonly across a variety of tools.
- GitHub Flavored Markdown: Markdown, the language used on GitHub (a platform for sharing source code used by programmers around the world), has been updated to include the ability to create tables and task lists.
These Markdowns have useful functions added to the basic Markdown writing format, so you can use them as needed.
Let's get started with Markdown!
Markdown is a very useful tool that dramatically simplifies writing. It's not difficult. First, try writing a simple sentence in Markdown. You'll be amazed at how convenient it is!
Since I started using Markdown, it has become much easier for me to write blog posts. I used to write in Word, but since I started using Markdown, I feel like I can concentrate on the structure of the text. I encourage you to step into the world of Markdown too!
This article is based on the following original articles and is summarized from the author's perspective:
What is Markdown? Lightweight text formatting for human
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