Ryan Cordell discusses another use for Markdown: creating interactive code notebooks for teaching the R programming language to humanities students.

When writing on the web or posting in online communities like Reddit and Discord, your posts can be formatted using the plaintext coding system called Markdown. Here are the basics.

If you write documents in a markdown editor and paste them into Google Docs to collaborate, you might think markdown support will speed up your workflow. It won't—at least, not in this way.

It’s easy to automate the creation of Word documents with Quarto, a free, open-source technical publishing system that works with R, Python, and other programming languages.

Markdown is easy to learn and makes writing on your computer or smartphone a breeze. Here's how it stacks up against other word processers.