ki te wahi i raro nei, me te ka whakahoki i te pātai i muri i roto i te reo taua rite te wahi: Passage: hanga John Gruber te reo Markdown i roto i 2004 i roto i te mahi tahi ki a Arona Swartz i runga i te kupu, ki te whāinga o te whakahohe iwi "ki te tuhituhi te whakamahi i te ngāwari-ki-te pānui, me te ngāwari-ki-tīpako i te hōputu kuputuhi noa, kōwhiringa tahuri te reira ki te hanganga tika XHTML (ranei HTML)".Its whāinga hoahoa matua ko te readability <unk> e te reo kia taea te pānui rite-ko, kahore titiro rite kua reira kua tohua ki tohutohu hōputu ranei, kahore rite kuputuhi hōputu ki te reo tohu, pērā i Rich Text hōputu (RTF) ranei HTML, e whai tohu mārama, me te tohutohu hōputu. Ki tenei mutunga, tona faaururaa matua ko te mau faahitiraa ngā mō te tohu ake kuputuhi i roto i te ihirangi mārama, ahakoa tangohia hoki i ngā reo īmēra mua, noatia, notabiti whakaturia,
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