Markdown has become an extremely popular way to document source code and other projects, thanks in no small part to how well web-based services like GitHub render it. Just sprinkle a few extra characters into a regular text file, and all of a sudden it looks like you know what you’re doing. Unfortunately, there are some places where markdown won’t actually render, and you’ll be stuck looking at those extra characters.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/06/17/preview-markdown-in-the-terminal-with-bash/