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Markdown Community Page

By and for the markdown community.

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diff --git a/about.md b/about.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c8741a --- /dev/null +++ b/about.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +layout: index +--- + +## About + +Markdown is formatting syntax that is lightweight, easy to write and easy to read. It's main goal is to be as readable as possible as plain text: + +> "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." - [John Gruber](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) + +Various libraries are available to convert markdown into structurally valid XHTML. This makes it possible to produce rich text documents in a syntax that's nearly as powerful as HTML, but much easier to use. + +### History + +Markdown was originally authored by John Gruber and Alex Swartz and is officially hosted at John Grubers [site](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/). + +Markdown rose in popularity after [Github](https://github.com) implemented it and since then many other sites have followed. + +### The future + +The markdown community hopes to use this site and its [associated Github account](https://github.com/markdown) to [be a better parent](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/12/responsible-open-source-code-parenting.html) to Markdown. It will be a central location for information on markdown and will help move markdown forwards and into maturity. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/images/favicon.png b/images/favicon.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ace7f64 Binary files /dev/null and b/images/favicon.png differ diff --git a/index.md b/index.md index b839a23..9b82b3b 100644 --- a/index.md +++ b/index.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ layout: index --- ### Welcome to the Markdown Community Page -[Markdown][1] is a +[Markdown][1] 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 @@ -12,14 +12,44 @@ This page is maintained by and for the markdown community to document various tools and resources available to document authors and developers, as well as implementors of the various markdown implementations. +### Want to help? + +Got an idea for this site? You help by [joining the discussion](https://github.com/markdown/markdown.github.com/issues) on github and sharing your ideas. If you've read the discussions and think there's something you can do you can dive right in and fork [this sites Github repository](https://github.com/markdown/markdown.github.com), [make your changes](https://github.com/markdown/markdown.github.com/wiki/How-to-edit-the-site) and [do a pull request](https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests). + ### Authors Coming soon... ### Developers -Coming soon... + +These are some developers who have written Markdown parsers: + +* [John Gruber](http://daringfireball.net/) +* [evilstreak](https://github.com/evilstreak) +* [michelf](https://github.com/michelf) +* [waylan](https://github.com/waylan) +* [vmg](https://github.com/vmg) + + +### Libraries + +These are some libraries that will parse markdown: + +* [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) - John Grubers perl script +* [markdown-js](https://github.com/evilstreak/markdown-js) - a Markdown parser for javascript +* [php-markdown](https://github.com/michelf/php-markdown) - a port to PHP of John Grubers Markdown perl script (plus more) +* [Python-Markdown](https://github.com/waylan/Python-Markdown) - a Python implementation of John Grubers Markdown +* [github-flavored-markdown](https://github.com/github/github-flavored-markdown) - Githubs version of markdown +* [sundown](https://github.com/vmg/sundown) - a markdown parser in C +* [redcarpet](https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet) - a markdown parser in ruby (available as a gem) + ### Implementors -Coming soon... +These are some implementations of markdown: + +* [Github](https://github.com) - Use a modified markdown for issues, comments and wiki pages +* [Bitbucket](https://bitbucket.org) - uses markdown for issues +* [StackOverflow and others](https://stackexchange.com/) - the entire StackExchange network uses markdown +* [markdown-here](https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here) - a browser extension to render markdown in emails [1]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ diff --git a/stylesheets/stylesheet.css b/stylesheets/stylesheet.css index 4189751..eaea28b 100644 --- a/stylesheets/stylesheet.css +++ b/stylesheets/stylesheet.css @@ -321,6 +321,30 @@ Full-Width Styles text-shadow: #111 0px 0px 10px; } +#navbar { + text-align: right; + margin: 0 auto; + position: relative; + max-width: 640px; +} + +#navbar ul li { + list-style-type: none; + display: inline; +} + +#navbar ul li a { + font-size: 20px; + color: #0090ff; + padding: 10px; +} + +#navbar ul li a:hover { + background-color: #0090ff; + color: white; + border-radius: 10px; +} + #downloads { position: absolute; width: 210px;