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diff --git a/textproc/discount/DESCR b/textproc/discount/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..8633d174cf5 --- /dev/null +++ b/textproc/discount/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown +allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text +format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). + +The overriding design goal for Markdown's formatting syntax is to make +it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted +document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking +like it's been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While +Markdown's syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML +filters, the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown's +syntax is the format of plain text email. + +Original Markdown implementation is written in Perl. Discount provides a +Markdown CLI tool and a library, written in C. |