<p><em>mkbook</em> relies pretty extensively on <ahref="https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">Markdown</a> for its ease of use. If you’re not familiar with <em>Markdown</em>, it is a simple markup language that is design to be easy to read and write in plain text, and then (relatively) easy for a computer to convert into other formats such as HTML or LaTeX.</p>
</span><spanstyle="color:#f99157;">[Markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/)</span><spanstyle="color:#d3d0c8;"> for
</span><spanstyle="color:#d3d0c8;">its ease of use. If you're not familiar with </span><spanstyle="font-style:italic;color:#cc99cc;">_Markdown_</span><spanstyle="color:#d3d0c8;">, it is
</span><spanstyle="color:#d3d0c8;">a simple markup language that is designed to be easy to read
</span><spanstyle="color:#d3d0c8;">and write in plain text, and then (relatively) easy for a
</span><spanstyle="color:#d3d0c8;">computer to convert into other formats such as HTML or LaTeX.
<p><em>Markdown</em> by itself isn’t quite enough for most purposes, so <em>mkbook</em> actually uses the <em>CommonMark</em> spec with some additional extensions to make life easier.</p>
