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title: Markdown
description: The simplest markup language
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Markdown is one of the simplest markup languages, and it's used by many programs such as Hugo, GitHub and even Reddit.
You can use [pandoc](https://pandoc.org/) to compile your markdown documents into PDFs/other formats.

- [Markdown Guide](https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax): everything you need to know to get started