This is what what the source text of the NOSTERIIHI Markdown quick guide looks like:
## Markdown
The cooperative has switched to the concise Markdown language in producing its website content. Markdown has only archaic style definition capabilities. Simplicity is achieved by relying on a reduced set marking elements. That is what the name Markdown signals: The new tool turns upside down the ‘Markup’ in ‘Hypertext Markup Language’ (HTML).
WordPress nowadays also supports Markdown editing and preview functionality. Markdown is a quickly learnt document markup language that can be used for a variety of tasks: taking daily notes, publishing web pages, defining text styles for E-mail messages, maintaining to-do lists, etc.
The appearance of an article is defined by easy-to-learn markup. Have a look at this example:
## Examples of Markdown markup
---
* Article subheadings are produced using ## marks
* A content dividing horizontal line is created using three or more hyphens ---
* Underlining is used to _underline_ content that the author would like to emphasize
* Asterisks or numbers are used to produce lists
The various Markup methods listed can be distinguished from the rest of the text by closing the code section with three backticks: ```. The example Markup would then look like this:
## Examples of Markdown markup
---
* Article subheadings are produced with ## marks
* Column dividers are created with three or more hyphens ---
* Underlining is used to _underline_ content that the author would like to emphasize
* *-asterisks or numbers are used to produce lists
The cooperative's NOSTERIIHI project created a [Markdown guide](https://github.com/phdonner/Markdown/) in English on the GitHub developer platform. In addition to easy web production procedures, the cooperative also supports internationalism. Our readers can be confident that, a parallel Finnish version of the Markdown guide will be prepared in spring 2025.
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That was the source text for our Markdown quick guide. It could be helpful to study the full NOSTERIIHI Markdown guide at GitHub. English speakers can also take advantage of studying Matt Cone's most readable Markdown book.