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On Markdown in Java documentation comments

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Why Is Markdown Popular?

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Show HN: owo – OneNote to Plain Text

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Hugo is awesome, its documentation is not

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Human Technology: Text Files

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How to write LaTeX without writing LaTeX

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Org Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text (2017)

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Templating for Lawyers

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R Markdown: The Definitive Guide

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Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel

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Don't write documentation in Markdown

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Syntax Highlighting Is Backwards (2018)

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Syntax highlighters are wrong (2014)

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Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text (2018)

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Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX

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A Love Letter to Plain Text

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Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text

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ReStructuredText vs. Markdown for documentation

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Don’t Use Markdown for Documentation

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Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language (2012)

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Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language

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Pandoc

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JEP 467: Markdown Documentation Comments

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Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)

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Writing HTML by hand is easier than debugging your static site generator

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