One gotcha: There are about a zillion implementations of Markdown. Be sure that you don't use a feature that isn't implemented in your reader's version.
Respectfully, Sherwood of Sherwood's Forests Sherwood Botsford Sherwood's Forests -- http://Sherwoods-Forests.com 780-848-2548 50042 Range Rd 31 Warburg, Alberta T0C 2T0 On 25 February 2016 at 10:45, Marios Zindilis <mar...@zindilis.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Markdown-Discuss mailing list > Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net > https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss > >
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