Markdown is a text-to-HTML filter; it translates an easy-to-read /
easy-to-write structured text format into HTML. Markdown's text format
is most similar to that of plain text email, and supports features such
as headers, *emphasis*, code blocks, blockquotes, and links.

Markdown's syntax is designed not as a generic markup language, but
specifically to serve as a front-end to (X)HTML. You can use span-level
HTML tags anywhere in a Markdown document, and you can use block level
HTML tags (like

Authors:
John Gruber
http://daringfireball.net/

PHP port and other contributions by Michel Fortin
http://michelf.com/

MultiMarkdown changes by Fletcher Penney
http://fletcher.freeshell.org/

CPAN Module Text::MultiMarkdown (based on Text::Markdown by Sebastian
Riedel) originally by Darren Kulp (http://kulp.ch/)

Support for markdown="1" by Dan Dascalescu (http://dandascalescu.com)

This module is maintained by: Tomas Doran http://www.bobtfish.net/