Using Markdown
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## What is Markdown? ##

Markdown is a _lightweight markup language_ designed for "maximum readability" and "publishability" (see the [Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown)).  

## Why use Markdown? ##

* It increases **readability** of unformatted, text-only documents.
* When used correctly, it generates **clean**, **semantic** HTML.
* With Markdown, hidden style commands and broken tags are never an issue.
* Markdown is **extremely** easy to use.  

Read more about it on [our blog](http://atendesigngroup.com/blog/what-it-not-what-it-looks).