---
title: A post with a cover image
date: 2019-01-07T00:00:00.000Z
tags:
  - Markdown
  - Cover Image
cover_image: /images/uploads/alexandr-podvalny-220262-unsplash.jpg
description: >-
  Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible.
  Readability, however, is emphasized above all else. A Markdown-formatted
  document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it's
  been marked up with tags or formatting instructions.
---

Readability, however, is emphasized above all else. A Markdown-formatted
document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking
like it's been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. 

While Markdown's syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters -- including [Setext](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/mirror/setext.html), [atx](http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/atx/), [Textile](http://textism.com/tools/textile/), [reStructuredText](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html),
[Grutatext](http://www.triptico.com/software/grutatxt.html), and [EtText](http://ettext.taint.org/doc/) -- the single biggest source of
inspiration for Markdown's syntax is the format of plain text email.