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## [HOWTO: Improve your use of Markdown in Discourse](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/howto-improve-your-use-of-markdown-in-discourse/6632)

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**Author:** [@marcusbaw](https://discourse.openehr.org/u/marcusbaw)\
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**Last updated:** [3 April 2025 14:59 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/howto-improve-your-use-of-markdown-in-discourse/6632 "2025-04-03T14:59:07Z")

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Introduction Markdown is a way to apply HTML (web language) formatting to plain text in a quick and mostly intuitive way. It looks a bit like formatting used to look in plain text emails, for those who remember that! Th…