_mkbook_ relies pretty extensively on [Markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) for its ease of use. If you're not familiar with _Markdown_, 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.
The above paragraph looks like this:
```md
_mkbook_ relies pretty extensively on
[Markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) for its ease of use.
If you're not familiar with _Markdown_, 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.
```
_Markdown_ by itself isn't quite enough for most purposes, so _mkbook_ actually uses the _CommonMark_ spec with some additional extensions to make life easier.
