A lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using plain-text editors. Grown reasonably ubiquitous for its extensive use case (e.g., storing large textual content) in a way that is standard and easy to understand.

Syntax

SymbolDescription
** ** or * *Bold
* * or _ _Italicise
~ ~Strikethrough
[title](https://example.com)Link
# to ######Headings (H1 to H6)
-List items (non-ordinal)
1. to n.List items (ordinal)