markdown

background

• John Gruber’s markdown

howto

• Mark Boszko’s cheat sheet
  Name markdown files xxxxx.md

software (if needed)

• MarkDrop by Culturezoo, in the Mac App Store
• TextWrangler by Bare Bones Software, in the Mac App Store
• search for Markdown editor in the chrome webstore
• emacs, standard on linux; easy to find for windows and Mac.
• gedit, near-standard on linux, and comes with a markdown mode.

embedded math

See markdown_with_math.md.