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Markdown is useful to writers who want to use a simpler-than-HTML markup language that later can be converted to HTML.
Markdown對於那些打算使用比HTML更簡單的標記語言的作者而言非常有用，這樣的輕量級標記之後可以被轉換爲HTML。
Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool initially written in Perl by John Gruber who released it back in 2004 under a BSD license.
Markdown是一個文本到HTML（text-to-HTML）的轉換工具，最初由John Gruber用Perl編寫，在2004年基於 BSD許可發佈。
More readily, you can send text formats that are simpler than XML: tab- or comma-delimited lists, Markdown or other lightly structured text, YAML, or JSON alternatives to XML.
更易於爲人接受的方法是，發送比 XML 簡單的文本格式：由制表符或逗號分隔的列表、Markdown 或其他結搆化程度較低的文本、YAML 或 JSON。

At that first markdown each season, often 33% or less, companies are still making money.
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For stocks like Microsoft, Intel and IBM, the markdown to bad news is a 5 percenter.
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