Formatting / TheLayoff Markdown
A 'greater than' character (>) at the beginning of a line will indent text...
A word that starts AND ends with two asterisks ** will be bold. If you want it in italic, use one * at the begging and end of the word
A word or sentence that starts and ends with ` will be turned into red code format.
You can make an unordered list by preceding list items with either a * or a -.
You can make an ordered list by preceding list items with a number.
Use single backticks (`) to format text in a special monospace format. Everything within the backticks appear as-is, with no other special formatting.
https://help.github.com/articles/markdown-basics/