# Writing documentation for DAS ## Markdown Markdown is of John Gruber's invention to provide a syntax to format text that would be understandable in it's raw syntax and better when rendered to HTML. Here is the original [spec](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax). We enforce proper Markdown syntax through CommonMark. Here is CommonMark Spec [version 0.28](http://spec.commonmark.org/0.28/) ## RST