# End-User Documentation for CommonMark?

**URL:** <https://talk.commonmark.org/t/end-user-documentation-for-commonmark/1240>\
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**Created:** [June 24, 2015, 12:26pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/end-user-documentation-for-commonmark/1240 "2015-06-24T12:26:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![pmorch](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/pmorch/32/731_2.png) [@pmorch](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/pmorch)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 12:26pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/end-user-documentation-for-commonmark/1240/1 "2015-06-24T12:26:37Z")

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I’m looking for a URL to send users to that describes CommonMark in a user documentation sort of way with examples. Something like one of:

- [Markdown Editing Help - Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help)
- [Daring Fireball: Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/)
- AsciiDoc cheatsheet

… but for CommonMark. Does such a page exist?

(I’m a new user so I can’t post many links. So the following has no links…)

I could send them to John Gruber’s Daring Fireball: Markdown page, and then point them to the differences in CommonMark, but I don’t think my users care about the project history, and I think the spec is way too dry and detailed.

Even “GitHub Flavored Markdown - User Documentation” starts off pointing towards “Markdown Basics” and then describes “Differences from traditional Markdown”.

I couldn’t even find a markdown description in Discourse, even though I was assuming Discourse uses CommonMark. But now I’m not so sure, because Jeff Atwood himself pointed towards [superuser.com/editing-help](http://superuser.com/editing-help) in the [Help me answer questions about markdown formatting from my users - support - Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-me-answer-questions-about-markdown-formatting-from-my-users/25133/5) thread from Feb 2015.

Peter

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**Author:** ![chrisalley](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/chrisalley/32/906_2.png) [@chrisalley](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/chrisalley)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 2:32pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/end-user-documentation-for-commonmark/1240/2 "2015-06-24T14:32:04Z")

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I was working on [these guides](http://www.chrisalley.info/commonmark-website/guides/paragraphs/) for the CommonMark website. Work in progress, just waiting to see what happens with [the competition](http://talk.commonmark.org/t/markdown-tutorial-contest-feedback/1149) before continuing. I think there should be a shorter version as well.

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/codinghorror/32/2_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 10:38am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/end-user-documentation-for-commonmark/1240/3 "2015-12-31T10:38:50Z")

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See [http://commonmark.org/help](http://commonmark.org/help) – still getting this finalized but it is definitely in a reasonable state for sharing now.