In addition to all its other formats, Help+Manual supports exporting your entire project to simplified Markdown files.
Two Markdown export options
Help+Manual can export your project as pure Markdown, which you select from the regular Publish screen shown above. In addition to this, there is an option in the WebHelp export that allows you to export WebHelp with additional Markdown versions of all files that will make your documentation easily accessible to AI crawlers on the Web.
What is Markdown and why use it as an export format?
Markdown files are plain text files with very simple standardized formatting and structuring codes that also use simple, plain text characters. Normally, you wouldn't want to export your Help+Manual project to Markdown because it strips out all the normal formatting and structuring that makes your content attractive and accessible for human readers.
Markdown export isn't for human readers
The main purpose of Markdown export isn't for human readers but to make your projects accessible for AI systems, Markdown files are now the standard for feeding documentation and other texts to AI systems.
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