For this use case, you don't have to install anything. For convenience, you can use an online editor, like http://dillinger.io/ to help you edit your document, then copy the Markdown text and paste it in a Gist.
-- Marios Zindilis On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Alan Hogan <cont...@alanhogan.com> wrote: > The thing is, if you have been asked to submit a document in markdown > format, you don’t need any software at all, at least not beyond your > favorite text editor (or Github's website itself). Just use .md instead of > .txt as the file extension. Markdown the software takes a > Markdown-formatted document and outputs an HTML document. At that point, > you would no longer be submitting a Markdown doc. > > And yes, markdown.pl is a command line tool. You are expected to invoke > it from the shell. > > Alan > > On Feb 25, 2016, at 6:57 AM, Erika Knollenberg via Markdown-Discuss < > markdown-discuss@six.pairlist.net> wrote: > > I have been assigned to submit a resume for an application to a school > using Markdown. They gave me this link: > http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ with the following > instructions: "Your resume, written in Markdown > <http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/> and submitted as a GitHub > Gist <https://gist.github.com/>." I've visted the link and downloaded > Markdown. When it didn't have a way to "install" like typical software, I > revisited the site and I downloaded Perl 5.22.00. I've also downloaded CPAN > (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Digest-MD5/MD5.pm). Now there is a little > blue icon in the Markdown folder, but all it opens is a black box. It > doesn't open something that should look like this ( > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oba3Czjyras). I've watched a couple of > tutorials on how to use it and it's fairly simple. I understand all the > 'coding' I need to use. The problem is figuring out how to install the > software. I'm not an IT person. I'm good at using programs, not fixing them > or understanding things out-of-the-ordinary computer installations. Can > someone please give me some direction (using layman's terms) to get this up > and moving? Thank you very much for your help. I am using a Windows 7 > computer. > > _______________________________________________ > Markdown-Discuss mailing list > Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net > https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > Markdown-Discuss mailing list > Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net > https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss > > -- Marios Zindilis
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