Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2020 August 20

= August 20 =

Official documentation for Markdown
Where can I find the official documentation for Markdown? -- Puzzledvegetable Is it teatime already?  01:51, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
 * There are some links in the article. Here is one:  It may depend on which flavor of Markdown you want to know about, it seems there are several variations according to the article.  RudolfRed (talk) 22:55, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

There are a lot of different dialects. An attempt to unify them that's gotten some traction is at commonmark.org. 2602:24A:DE47:BB20:50DE:F402:42A6:A17D (talk) 08:05, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Which flavor of markdown is used on Github to create the README? -- Puzzledvegetable Is it teatime already?  13:42, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't know for sure, but my guess is Markdown. This is a superset of CommonMark mentioned above.  Read more about it here:   RudolfRed (talk) 15:40, 24 August 2020 (UTC)