Here is some basic syntax documentation for markdown, which was originally written for ikiwiki. It's not intended to be complete, but is enough to get started. Feel free to include this in the package. Maybe in the man page?
Markdown uses a form very close to how you might write text for an email
message. It works like this:
Leave blank lines between paragraphs.
You can **emphasise** or ****strongly emphasise**** text by placing it
in single or double asterisks.
To create a list, start each line with an asterisk:
* this is my list
* another item
To make a numbered list, start each line with a number (any number will
do) followed by a period:
1. first line
2. second line
2. third line
To create a header, start a line with one or more `#` characters followed
by a space and the header text. The number of `#` characters controls the
size of the header:
# h1
## h2
### h3
#### h4
##### h5
###### h6
To create a horizontal rule, just write three or more dashes or stars on
their own line:
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To quote someone, prefix the quote with ">":
> To be or not to be,
> that is the question.
To write a code block, indent each line with a tab or 4 spaces:
10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
20 GOTO 10
To link to another web page, or to an email address, you can just put the
url in angle brackets: <http://example.com/>, or you can use the
form [example link text](http://example.com)
For complete documentation of markdown syntax, see
<http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax>.
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