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Markdown is a lightweight, plain-text, markup language. It is used across the entire Stack Exchange network for post formatting (Questions, answers, wikis, chat).

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Which Markdown formatting should be used for a filename of code?

After pounding my own head against my desk (and many others' desks) from wondering about this four years ago, I'm now writing all my Markdown with files as code because... … Markdown renders more than one underscore _ as an italics-string (literally _italics-string_ in Markdown). This never causes a problem if file names are in backticks. …
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Can we make Markdown headers semantically correct?

In the HTML coding world where Markdown came from, we get constantly lectured about how we're "supposed" to honor the DOM (Document Object Model) and use it properly for accessibility. … More than whether the HTML DOM honors the hierarchies "properly", we need to get rid of that enormously atrocious front page headline font typeface and get fonts and sizes that make the Markdown hierarchies …
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We're switching to CommonMark

Will underscore's styling role continue? I just finished reading through commonmark.org's help section and I'm quite pleased with the rationale behind SE's decision and CommonMark's mission. One cavea …
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