Markdown not working on README on Github?

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Markdown not working on README on Github?

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Just put for example in the file README the symbol # before a title that Github automatically transforms to h1 or has to configure or download something for Markdown to work.

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asked by anonymous 04.08.2017 / 21:41

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The file should have .md extension for the engine of GitHub to know to process Markdown. You do not have to do anything other than use Markdown's special markup. In fact # transforms into <H1> into HTML.