Markdown By Example

by Tim Steinbach

From text files over presentations to blogs, it can all be done using mostly Markdown. And it is easy, too!

This book introduces the reader to the Markdown syntax, teaches a few tricks on output styling and explains the various tools and frameworks that support Markdown.

All this is done using an imaginary monitoring tool called "GoodTool", which - by the end of the book - has a README file, a website, a blog, a wiki and much more. It is the common theme helping the reader understand the different use cases.

Finally, the book ends in a chapter explaining the "Making Of Markdown By Example" - yes, this book is not only about Markdown, it was also written in Markdown!

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First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Grant Palin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm not new to Markdown, but haven't been using it terribly long either. Documentation of the syntax is readily accessible, but when I learn new languages I like to read tutorials on the topic. Markdown by Example well suits anyone becoming familiar with Markdown. The basics are well-covered, and followed by a number of examples of applications of Markdown. I particularly enjoyed the examples of documentation generation, and of using Markdown to write an ebook - including this very book, as the author mentions.