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If you are used to WYSIWYG editors such as Microsoft Word, you might reasonably ask why you should use Markdown files. You can write your document and format them any way you like, and you can export your document to different file formats if you wish. For short documents that you only need to format once and to one file format, you do not need Markdown. I will argue that Markdown is still an excellent choice for such documents, but it is for more advanced applications where it really shines.
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Mailund, T. (2019). Why Use Markdown and Pandoc. In: Introducing Markdown and Pandoc. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5149-2_2
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