Installing Markdown

[Marios Zindilis]

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.

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Marios Zindilis

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Alan Hogan <contact at 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 at 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.
>
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