I am confused how markdown works/how to use it for code in documents

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StackEdit

Full-featured, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown, the Markdown library used by Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Personally I use https://stackedit.io/ when I want a WYSIWYG editor to use - though I've previously linked https://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/ when testing things.

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Markdown by DaringFireball

Text-to-HTML conversion tool/syntax for web writers, by John Gruber

Various specifications for variations that I've seen Original https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ GFM https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/getting-started-with-writing-and-formatting-on-github/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax Commonmark https://spec.commonmark.org/0.30/#introduction Kramdown https://kramdown.gettalong.org/syntax.html#kramdown-syntax Panadoc https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#pandocs-markdown Markdown Extra https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/ ... (I can't be bothered to list them all...).

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Pygments

Generic syntax highlighter suitable for use in code hosting, forums, wikis or other applications...
Pricing:
- Open Source
I was just learning about this yesterday when I needed number lines as well as highlighting in my code block. I added Pygments to our docs which works well.

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