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# Markdown Interpreter for Apache Zeppelin

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## Overview
[Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) is a plain text formatting syntax designed so that it can be converted to HTML.
Zeppelin uses markdown4j. For more examples and extension support, please checkout [here](https://code.google.com/p/markdown4j/).  
In Zeppelin notebook, you can use ` %md ` in the beginning of a paragraph to invoke the Markdown interpreter and generate static html from Markdown plain text.

In Zeppelin, Markdown interpreter is enabled by default.

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## Example
The following example demonstrates the basic usage of Markdown in a Zeppelin notebook.

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