Youn

Youn

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Markdown

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Posts using the Jekyll like this blog are converted to html accroading to the _post template. Articles are written based on the _post template and the Markdown extension document. These articles has a .markdown, .md extension. Markdown documents are easier to write than HTML or JAVA, and have the advantage of supporting many platforms.

Markdown

Markdown is a plain text-based lightweight markup laaguage created in 2004 by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz. They created the Markdown language with the goal of “Easy-to-read, easy-to-write, plain text format, optionally convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML)”. Unlike markup languages such as html or RTF which are clearly classified as tag, markdown languages focus on readability. Markdown is widely used since it can be easily converted to html and is used in Github. Anyone who has used Github sees readme.md as soon as they create their first repository, and the .md file is the Markdown document. Besides Github, it is used by various programs to write readme files. In addition, since Markdown file is saved as text format, the capacity is small, and it is easy to manage the change history through the version control system.

Markdown pros and cons

Pros Cons
Easy to write and edit No strict standard
Straightforward and easy grammar Low deformability
Various supported platforms and programs Does not replace all HTML markup

Markup Markdown difference

Talk about the difference between markup and Markdown is acutally meaningless. This is because Markdown is a markup languange. John Gruber and Aaron Swartz just named Markdown as an ironic expression in order to emphasize readability, which is the direction of Markdown. Markup language is a syntax surrounded by marks. Here, a mark can be interpreted as a tag, and a language structure that defines the stlye and format of a document with tags such as HTML and XML is called a markup language.

Reference

  • Markdown related
    https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%ED%81%AC%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4
  • Markup & Markdown related
    https://cordelia273.space/15

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