Installing Markdown

Sherwood Botsford sgbotsford at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 12:51:56 EST 2016


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
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On 25 February 2016 at 10:45, Marios Zindilis <marios at 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 <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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