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 ...

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 ...

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