The .md extension is used for Markdown files. Markdown files are plain text, and Markdown is a more-or-less standardized plain-text format that can be readily converted to other more structured formats, most often HTML. Markdown is heavily used throughout GitHub (and many other places). GitHub’s Markdown Guide (https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/) is a 3-minute read, and here’s Markdown’s Wik

I have read all that, but does not answer the questions.

It is less readable than the text form we used earlier, important things do not stand out.  I understand that it expects to be converted to HTML, but I cannot find how to do it.

I am happy with ASCII text and not very sure about fancy text beyond LaTeX

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On 17 Oct 2016, at 16:39, Nate Whetsell <nathan.whetsell@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

The .md extension is used for Markdown files. Markdown files are plain text, and Markdown is a more-or-less standardized plain-text format that can be readily converted to other more structured formats, most often HTML. Markdown is heavily used throughout GitHub (and many other places). GitHub’s Markdown Guide (https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/) is a 3-minute read, and here’s Markdown’s Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown.

Markdown is more readable to me and I think to many others. Github automatically converts .md  files to HTML display, no need for anyone to convert it.

Best,
Mike

It took this morning to re-add the changes from last night as the 
git-merge process was confused.  I like heading to stand out so i can see 
them as headings, for example.

What gitub does does not affect the writing of text in emacs

Maybe a warning would have helped, but whatever

On Mon, 17 Oct 2016, Michael Gogins wrote:

> 
> Markdown is more readable to me and I think to many others. Github
> automatically converts .md  files to HTML display, no need for anyone to
> convert it.
> 
> Best,
> Mike
> 
> 
> On Oct 17, 2016 12:05 PM, "John ff"  wrote:
>       I have read all that, but does not answer the questions.
> 
> It is less readable than the text form we used earlier, important things
> do not stand out.  I understand that it expects to be converted to HTML,
> but I cannot find how to do it.
> 
> I am happy with ASCII text and not very sure about fancy text beyond
> LaTeX
> 
> 
> Sent from TypeApp
> 
> On 17 Oct 2016, at 16:39, Nate Whetsell 
> wrote:
> 
> The .md extension is used for Markdown files. Markdown files are plain text, a
> nd Markdown is a more-or-less standardized plain-text format that can be readi
> ly converted to other more structured formats, most often HTML. Markdown is he
> avily used throughout GitHub (and many other places). GitHub’s Markdown Guide 
> (https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/) is a 3-minute read, a
> nd here’s Markdown’s Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown.
> 
> 
>