This is a sample README.md written in Markdown. Markdown is a very simple syntax that can easily be translated into HTML. Many web services, including GitHub, will render Markdown on the fly.
For more information on Markdown, checkout the following:
- Markdown - as created by John Gruber: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
- CommonMark - An effort to standardize Markdown: http://commonmark.org/
- Pandoc - One of my favorite tools for converting Markdown to html, pdf, docx, etc.: http://pandoc.org/