Creating Markdown Documents With Retext On Linux
The Markdown plain text format was created back in 2004 with the aim of getting authors to write using an easy-to-read document format that could also be converted into more complex forms like HTML or even PDF. To make some text bold in a traditional document editor, you would select the text and then either use a Markdown keyboard shortcut or click on the relevant icon in the tool bar. In Markdown you just put ** before the text and ** after it....