With Markdown, writing HTML-formatted documents is as easy as writing plain text. Software developers use it, but so do many others.

Poor formatting can make a website unappealing or even unreadable. With Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), you can control a website's formatting so that it appears exactly as you wish.

Apple has sent out emails today to Apple News Publishers letting them know that they can now use HTML text formatting to more easily translate their web content into the Apple News Format. Instead ...

Message Formatting in Thunderbird. With a dash of creativity and Mozilla's Thunderbird desktop email program, you can compose professional looking business emails that should impress your recipients.

See, these days I post a very occasional comment to Ars in article comments, not forums. I don't get the blindingly obvious formatting tag buttons that head the textarea here in the forum posts ...