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html_flags |= blackfriday.HTML_SMARTYPANTS_LATEX_DASHES // render the data into HTML (comment this out to deselect HTML) - renderer := blackfriday.HtmlRenderer(html_flags) + renderer := blackfriday.HtmlRenderer(html_flags) - // render the data into LaTeX (uncomment to select LaTeX) - //renderer := blackfriday.LatexRenderer(0) + // render the data into LaTeX (uncomment to select LaTeX) + //renderer := blackfriday.LatexRenderer(0) output := blackfriday.Markdown(input, renderer, extensions)
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+<p>AT&T has an ampersand in their name.</p> + +<p>AT&T is another way to write it.</p> + +<p>This & that.</p> + +<p>4 < 5.</p> + +<p>6 > 5.</p> + +<p>Here's a <a href="http://example.com/?foo=1&bar=2">link</a> with an ampersand in the URL.</p> + +<p>Here's a link with an amersand in the link text: <a href="http://att.com/" title="AT&T">AT&T</a>.</p> + +<p>Here's an inline <a href="/script?foo=1&bar=2">link</a>.</p> + +<p>Here's an inline <a href="/script?foo=1&bar=2">link</a>.</p>
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-<p>AT&T has an ampersand in their name.</p> - -<p>AT&T is another way to write it.</p> - -<p>This & that.</p> - -<p>4 < 5.</p> - -<p>6 > 5.</p> - -<p>Here's a <a href="http://example.com/?foo=1&bar=2">link</a> with an ampersand in the URL.</p> - -<p>Here's a link with an amersand in the link text: <a href="http://att.com/" title="AT&T">AT&T</a>.</p> - -<p>Here's an inline <a href="/script?foo=1&bar=2">link</a>.</p> - -<p>Here's an inline <a href="/script?foo=1&bar=2">link</a>.</p>
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+<p>Link: <a href="http://example.com/">http://example.com/</a>.</p> + +<p>With an ampersand: <a href="http://example.com/?foo=1&bar=2">http://example.com/?foo=1&bar=2</a></p> + +<ul> +<li>In a list?</li> +<li><a href="http://example.com/">http://example.com/</a></li> +<li>It should.</li> +</ul> +<blockquote> +<p>Blockquoted: <a href="http://example.com/">http://example.com/</a></p> +</blockquote> +<p>Auto-links should not occur here: <code><http://example.com/></code></p> + +<pre><code>or here: <http://example.com/> +</code></pre>
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-<p>Link: <a href="http://example.com/">http://example.com/</a>.</p> - -<p>With an ampersand: <a href="http://example.com/?foo=1&bar=2">http://example.com/?foo=1&bar=2</a></p> - -<ul> -<li>In a list?</li> -<li><a href="http://example.com/">http://example.com/</a></li> -<li>It should.</li> -</ul> -<blockquote> -<p>Blockquoted: <a href="http://example.com/">http://example.com/</a></p> -</blockquote> -<p>Auto-links should not occur here: <code><http://example.com/></code></p> - -<pre><code>or here: <http://example.com/> -</code></pre>
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+<p>These should all get escaped:</p> + +<p>Backslash: \</p> + +<p>Backtick: `</p> + +<p>Asterisk: *</p> + +<p>Underscore: _</p> + +<p>Left brace: {</p> + +<p>Right brace: }</p> + +<p>Left bracket: [</p> + +<p>Right bracket: ]</p> + +<p>Left paren: (</p> + +<p>Right paren: )</p> + +<p>Greater-than: ></p> + +<p>Hash: #</p> + +<p>Period: .</p> + +<p>Bang: !</p> + +<p>Plus: +</p> + +<p>Minus: -</p> + +<p>These should not, because they occur within a code block:</p> + +<pre><code>Backslash: \\ + +Backtick: \` + +Asterisk: \* + +Underscore: \_ + +Left brace: \{ + +Right brace: \} + +Left bracket: \[ + +Right bracket: \] + +Left paren: \( + +Right paren: \) + +Greater-than: \> + +Hash: \# + +Period: \. + +Bang: \! + +Plus: \+ + +Minus: \- +</code></pre> + +<p>Nor should these, which occur in code spans:</p> + +<p>Backslash: <code>\\</code></p> + +<p>Backtick: <code>\`</code></p> + +<p>Asterisk: <code>\*</code></p> + +<p>Underscore: <code>\_</code></p> + +<p>Left brace: <code>\{</code></p> + +<p>Right brace: <code>\}</code></p> + +<p>Left bracket: <code>\[</code></p> + +<p>Right bracket: <code>\]</code></p> + +<p>Left paren: <code>\(</code></p> + +<p>Right paren: <code>\)</code></p> + +<p>Greater-than: <code>\></code></p> + +<p>Hash: <code>\#</code></p> + +<p>Period: <code>\.</code></p> + +<p>Bang: <code>\!</code></p> + +<p>Plus: <code>\+</code></p> + +<p>Minus: <code>\-</code></p> + +<p>These should get escaped, even though they're matching pairs for +other Markdown constructs:</p> + +<p>*asterisks*</p> + +<p>_underscores_</p> + +<p>`backticks`</p> + +<p>This is a code span with a literal backslash-backtick sequence: <code>\`</code></p> + +<p>This is a tag with unescaped backticks <span attr='`ticks`'>bar</span>.</p> + +<p>This is a tag with backslashes <span attr='\\backslashes\\'>bar</span>.</p>
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-<p>These should all get escaped:</p> - -<p>Backslash: \</p> - -<p>Backtick: `</p> - -<p>Asterisk: *</p> - -<p>Underscore: _</p> - -<p>Left brace: {</p> - -<p>Right brace: }</p> - -<p>Left bracket: [</p> - -<p>Right bracket: ]</p> - -<p>Left paren: (</p> - -<p>Right paren: )</p> - -<p>Greater-than: ></p> - -<p>Hash: #</p> - -<p>Period: .</p> - -<p>Bang: !</p> - -<p>Plus: +</p> - -<p>Minus: -</p> - -<p>These should not, because they occur within a code block:</p> - -<pre><code>Backslash: \\ - -Backtick: \` - -Asterisk: \* - -Underscore: \_ - -Left brace: \{ - -Right brace: \} - -Left bracket: \[ - -Right bracket: \] - -Left paren: \( - -Right paren: \) - -Greater-than: \> - -Hash: \# - -Period: \. - -Bang: \! - -Plus: \+ - -Minus: \- -</code></pre> - -<p>Nor should these, which occur in code spans:</p> - -<p>Backslash: <code>\\</code></p> - -<p>Backtick: <code>\`</code></p> - -<p>Asterisk: <code>\*</code></p> - -<p>Underscore: <code>\_</code></p> - -<p>Left brace: <code>\{</code></p> - -<p>Right brace: <code>\}</code></p> - -<p>Left bracket: <code>\[</code></p> - -<p>Right bracket: <code>\]</code></p> - -<p>Left paren: <code>\(</code></p> - -<p>Right paren: <code>\)</code></p> - -<p>Greater-than: <code>\></code></p> - -<p>Hash: <code>\#</code></p> - -<p>Period: <code>\.</code></p> - -<p>Bang: <code>\!</code></p> - -<p>Plus: <code>\+</code></p> - -<p>Minus: <code>\-</code></p> - -<p>These should get escaped, even though they're matching pairs for -other Markdown constructs:</p> - -<p>*asterisks*</p> - -<p>_underscores_</p> - -<p>`backticks`</p> - -<p>This is a code span with a literal backslash-backtick sequence: <code>\`</code></p> - -<p>This is a tag with unescaped backticks <span attr='`ticks`'>bar</span>.</p> - -<p>This is a tag with backslashes <span attr='\\backslashes\\'>bar</span>.</p>
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+<blockquote> +<p>Example:</p> + +<pre><code>sub status { + print "working"; +} +</code></pre> + +<p>Or:</p> + +<pre><code>sub status { + return "working"; +} +</code></pre> +</blockquote>
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-<blockquote> -<p>Example:</p> - -<pre><code>sub status { - print "working"; -} -</code></pre> - -<p>Or:</p> - -<pre><code>sub status { - return "working"; -} -</code></pre> -</blockquote>
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+<pre><code>code block on the first line +</code></pre> + +<p>Regular text.</p> + +<pre><code>code block indented by spaces +</code></pre> + +<p>Regular text.</p> + +<pre><code>the lines in this block +all contain trailing spaces +</code></pre> + +<p>Regular Text.</p> + +<pre><code>code block on the last line +</code></pre>
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-<pre><code>code block on the first line -</code></pre> - -<p>Regular text.</p> - -<pre><code>code block indented by spaces -</code></pre> - -<p>Regular text.</p> - -<pre><code>the lines in this block -all contain trailing spaces -</code></pre> - -<p>Regular Text.</p> - -<pre><code>code block on the last line -</code></pre>
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+<p><code><test a="</code> content of attribute <code>"></code></p> + +<p>Fix for backticks within HTML tag: <span attr='`ticks`'>like this</span></p> + +<p>Here's how you put <code>`backticks`</code> in a code span.</p>
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-<p><code><test a="</code> content of attribute <code>"></code></p> - -<p>Fix for backticks within HTML tag: <span attr='`ticks`'>like this</span></p> - -<p>Here's how you put <code>`backticks`</code> in a code span.</p>
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+<p>In Markdown 1.0.0 and earlier. Version +8. This line turns into a list item. +Because a hard-wrapped line in the +middle of a paragraph looked like a +list item.</p> + +<p>Here's one with a bullet. +* criminey.</p>
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-<p>In Markdown 1.0.0 and earlier. Version -8. This line turns into a list item. -Because a hard-wrapped line in the -middle of a paragraph looked like a -list item.</p> - -<p>Here's one with a bullet. -* criminey.</p>
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+<p>Dashes:</p> + +<hr> + +<hr> + +<hr> + +<hr> + +<pre><code>--- +</code></pre> + +<hr> + +<hr> + +<hr> + +<hr> + +<pre><code>- - - +</code></pre> + +<p>Asterisks:</p> + +<hr> + +<hr> + +<hr> + +<hr> + +<pre><code>*** +</code></pre> + +<hr> + +<hr> + +<hr> + +<hr> + +<pre><code>* * * +</code></pre> + +<p>Underscores:</p> + +<hr> + +<hr> + +<hr> + +<hr> + +<pre><code>___ +</code></pre> + +<hr> + +<hr> + +<hr> + +<hr> + +<pre><code>_ _ _ +</code></pre>
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-<p>Dashes:</p> - -<hr> - -<hr> - -<hr> - -<hr> - -<pre><code>--- -</code></pre> - -<hr> - -<hr> - -<hr> - -<hr> - -<pre><code>- - - -</code></pre> - -<p>Asterisks:</p> - -<hr> - -<hr> - -<hr> - -<hr> - -<pre><code>*** -</code></pre> - -<hr> - -<hr> - -<hr> - -<hr> - -<pre><code>* * * -</code></pre> - -<p>Underscores:</p> - -<hr> - -<hr> - -<hr> - -<hr> - -<pre><code>___ -</code></pre> - -<hr> - -<hr> - -<hr> - -<hr> - -<pre><code>_ _ _ -</code></pre>
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+<p>Simple block on one line:</p> + +<div>foo</div> + +<p>And nested without indentation:</p> + +<div> +<div> +<div> +foo +</div> +<div style=">"/> +</div> +<div>bar</div> +</div>
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-<p>Simple block on one line:</p> - -<div>foo</div> - -<p>And nested without indentation:</p> - -<div> -<div> -<div> -foo -</div> -<div style=">"/> -</div> -<div>bar</div> -</div>
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+<p>Here's a simple block:</p> + +<div> + foo +</div> + +<p>This should be a code block, though:</p> + +<pre><code><div> + foo +</div> +</code></pre> + +<p>As should this:</p> + +<pre><code><div>foo</div> +</code></pre> + +<p>Now, nested:</p> + +<div> + <div> + <div> + foo + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<p>This should just be an HTML comment:</p> + +<!-- Comment --> + +<p>Multiline:</p> + +<!-- +Blah +Blah +--> + +<p>Code block:</p> + +<pre><code><!-- Comment --> +</code></pre> + +<p>Just plain comment, with trailing spaces on the line:</p> + +<!-- foo --> + +<p>Code:</p> + +<pre><code><hr /> +</code></pre> + +<p>Hr's:</p> + +<hr> + +<hr/> + +<hr /> + +<hr> + +<hr/> + +<hr /> + +<hr class="foo" id="bar" /> + +<hr class="foo" id="bar"/> + +<hr class="foo" id="bar" >
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-<p>Here's a simple block:</p> - -<div> - foo -</div> - -<p>This should be a code block, though:</p> - -<pre><code><div> - foo -</div> -</code></pre> - -<p>As should this:</p> - -<pre><code><div>foo</div> -</code></pre> - -<p>Now, nested:</p> - -<div> - <div> - <div> - foo - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p>This should just be an HTML comment:</p> - -<!-- Comment --> - -<p>Multiline:</p> - -<!-- -Blah -Blah ---> - -<p>Code block:</p> - -<pre><code><!-- Comment --> -</code></pre> - -<p>Just plain comment, with trailing spaces on the line:</p> - -<!-- foo --> - -<p>Code:</p> - -<pre><code><hr /> -</code></pre> - -<p>Hr's:</p> - -<hr> - -<hr/> - -<hr /> - -<hr> - -<hr/> - -<hr /> - -<hr class="foo" id="bar" /> - -<hr class="foo" id="bar"/> - -<hr class="foo" id="bar" >
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+<p>Paragraph one.</p> + +<!-- This is a simple comment --> + +<!-- + This is another comment. +--> + +<p>Paragraph two.</p> + +<!-- one comment block -- -- with two comments --> + +<p>The end.</p>
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-<p>Paragraph one.</p> - -<!-- This is a simple comment --> - -<!-- - This is another comment. ---> - -<p>Paragraph two.</p> - -<!-- one comment block -- -- with two comments --> - -<p>The end.</p>
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+<p>Just a <a href="/url/">URL</a>.</p> + +<p><a href="/url/" title="title">URL and title</a>.</p> + +<p><a href="/url/" title="title preceded by two spaces">URL and title</a>.</p> + +<p><a href="/url/" title="title preceded by a tab">URL and title</a>.</p> + +<p><a href="/url/" title="title has spaces afterward">URL and title</a>.</p> + +<p><a href="">Empty</a>.</p>
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-<p>Just a <a href="/url/">URL</a>.</p> - -<p><a href="/url/" title="title">URL and title</a>.</p> - -<p><a href="/url/" title="title preceded by two spaces">URL and title</a>.</p> - -<p><a href="/url/" title="title preceded by a tab">URL and title</a>.</p> - -<p><a href="/url/" title="title has spaces afterward">URL and title</a>.</p> - -<p><a href="">Empty</a>.</p>
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+<p>Foo <a href="/url/" title="Title">bar</a>.</p> + +<p>Foo <a href="/url/" title="Title">bar</a>.</p> + +<p>Foo <a href="/url/" title="Title">bar</a>.</p> + +<p>With <a href="/url/">embedded [brackets]</a>.</p> + +<p>Indented <a href="/url">once</a>.</p> + +<p>Indented <a href="/url">twice</a>.</p> + +<p>Indented <a href="/url">thrice</a>.</p> + +<p>Indented [four][] times.</p> + +<pre><code>[four]: /url +</code></pre> + +<hr> + +<p><a href="foo">this</a> should work</p> + +<p>So should <a href="foo">this</a>.</p> + +<p>And <a href="foo">this</a>.</p> + +<p>And <a href="foo">this</a>.</p> + +<p>And <a href="foo">this</a>.</p> + +<p>But not [that] [].</p> + +<p>Nor [that][].</p> + +<p>Nor [that].</p> + +<p>[Something in brackets like <a href="foo">this</a> should work]</p> + +<p>[Same with <a href="foo">this</a>.]</p> + +<p>In this case, <a href="/somethingelse/">this</a> points to something else.</p> + +<p>Backslashing should suppress [this] and [this].</p> + +<hr> + +<p>Here's one where the <a href="/url/">link +breaks</a> across lines.</p> + +<p>Here's another where the <a href="/url/">link +breaks</a> across lines, but with a line-ending space.</p>
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-<p>Foo <a href="/url/" title="Title">bar</a>.</p> - -<p>Foo <a href="/url/" title="Title">bar</a>.</p> - -<p>Foo <a href="/url/" title="Title">bar</a>.</p> - -<p>With <a href="/url/">embedded [brackets]</a>.</p> - -<p>Indented <a href="/url">once</a>.</p> - -<p>Indented <a href="/url">twice</a>.</p> - -<p>Indented <a href="/url">thrice</a>.</p> - -<p>Indented [four][] times.</p> - -<pre><code>[four]: /url -</code></pre> - -<hr> - -<p><a href="foo">this</a> should work</p> - -<p>So should <a href="foo">this</a>.</p> - -<p>And <a href="foo">this</a>.</p> - -<p>And <a href="foo">this</a>.</p> - -<p>And <a href="foo">this</a>.</p> - -<p>But not [that] [].</p> - -<p>Nor [that][].</p> - -<p>Nor [that].</p> - -<p>[Something in brackets like <a href="foo">this</a> should work]</p> - -<p>[Same with <a href="foo">this</a>.]</p> - -<p>In this case, <a href="/somethingelse/">this</a> points to something else.</p> - -<p>Backslashing should suppress [this] and [this].</p> - -<hr> - -<p>Here's one where the <a href="/url/">link -breaks</a> across lines.</p> - -<p>Here's another where the <a href="/url/">link -breaks</a> across lines, but with a line-ending space.</p>
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+<p>This is the <a href="/simple">simple case</a>.</p> + +<p>This one has a <a href="/foo">line +break</a>.</p> + +<p>This one has a <a href="/foo">line +break</a> with a line-ending space.</p> + +<p><a href="/that">this</a> and the <a href="/other">other</a></p>
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-<p>This is the <a href="/simple">simple case</a>.</p> - -<p>This one has a <a href="/foo">line -break</a>.</p> - -<p>This one has a <a href="/foo">line -break</a> with a line-ending space.</p> - -<p><a href="/that">this</a> and the <a href="/other">other</a></p>
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+<p>Foo <a href="/url/" title="Title with "quotes" inside">bar</a>.</p> + +<p>Foo <a href="/url/" title="Title with "quotes" inside">bar</a>.</p>
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-<p>Foo <a href="/url/" title="Title with "quotes" inside">bar</a>.</p> - -<p>Foo <a href="/url/" title="Title with "quotes" inside">bar</a>.</p>
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+<h1>Markdown: Basics</h1> + +<ul id="ProjectSubmenu"> + <li><a href="/projects/markdown/" title="Markdown Project Page">Main</a></li> + <li><a class="selected" title="Markdown Basics">Basics</a></li> + <li><a href="/projects/markdown/syntax" title="Markdown Syntax Documentation">Syntax</a></li> + <li><a href="/projects/markdown/license" title="Pricing and License Information">License</a></li> + <li><a href="/projects/markdown/dingus" title="Online Markdown Web Form">Dingus</a></li> +</ul> + +<h2>Getting the Gist of Markdown's Formatting Syntax</h2> + +<p>This page offers a brief overview of what it's like to use Markdown. +The <a href="/projects/markdown/syntax" title="Markdown Syntax">syntax page</a> provides complete, detailed documentation for +every feature, but Markdown should be very easy to pick up simply by +looking at a few examples of it in action. The examples on this page +are written in a before/after style, showing example syntax and the +HTML output produced by Markdown.</p> + +<p>It's also helpful to simply try Markdown out; the <a href="/projects/markdown/dingus" title="Markdown Dingus">Dingus</a> is a +web application that allows you type your own Markdown-formatted text +and translate it to XHTML.</p> + +<p><strong>Note:</strong> This document is itself written using Markdown; you +can <a href="/projects/markdown/basics.text">see the source for it by adding '.text' to the URL</a>.</p> + +<h2>Paragraphs, Headers, Blockquotes</h2> + +<p>A paragraph is simply one or more consecutive lines of text, separated +by one or more blank lines. (A blank line is any line that looks like a +blank line -- a line containing nothing spaces or tabs is considered +blank.) Normal paragraphs should not be intended with spaces or tabs.</p> + +<p>Markdown offers two styles of headers: <em>Setext</em> and <em>atx</em>. +Setext-style headers for <code><h1></code> and <code><h2></code> are created by +"underlining" with equal signs (<code>=</code>) and hyphens (<code>-</code>), respectively. +To create an atx-style header, you put 1-6 hash marks (<code>#</code>) at the +beginning of the line -- the number of hashes equals the resulting +HTML header level.</p> + +<p>Blockquotes are indicated using email-style '<code>></code>' angle brackets.</p> + +<p>Markdown:</p> + +<pre><code>A First Level Header +==================== + +A Second Level Header +--------------------- + +Now is the time for all good men to come to +the aid of their country. This is just a +regular paragraph. + +The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy +dog's back. + +### Header 3 + +> This is a blockquote. +> +> This is the second paragraph in the blockquote. +> +> ## This is an H2 in a blockquote +</code></pre> + +<p>Output:</p> + +<pre><code><h1>A First Level Header</h1> + +<h2>A Second Level Header</h2> + +<p>Now is the time for all good men to come to +the aid of their country. This is just a +regular paragraph.</p> + +<p>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy +dog's back.</p> + +<h3>Header 3</h3> + +<blockquote> + <p>This is a blockquote.</p> + + <p>This is the second paragraph in the blockquote.</p> + + <h2>This is an H2 in a blockquote</h2> +</blockquote> +</code></pre> + +<h3>Phrase Emphasis</h3> + +<p>Markdown uses asterisks and underscores to indicate spans of emphasis.</p> + +<p>Markdown:</p> + +<pre><code>Some of these words *are emphasized*. +Some of these words _are emphasized also_. + +Use two asterisks for **strong emphasis**. +Or, if you prefer, __use two underscores instead__. +</code></pre> + +<p>Output:</p> + +<pre><code><p>Some of these words <em>are emphasized</em>. +Some of these words <em>are emphasized also</em>.</p> + +<p>Use two asterisks for <strong>strong emphasis</strong>. +Or, if you prefer, <strong>use two underscores instead</strong>.</p> +</code></pre> + +<h2>Lists</h2> + +<p>Unordered (bulleted) lists use asterisks, pluses, and hyphens (<code>*</code>, +<code>+</code>, and <code>-</code>) as list markers. These three markers are +interchangable; this:</p> + +<pre><code>* Candy. +* Gum. +* Booze. +</code></pre> + +<p>this:</p> + +<pre><code>+ Candy. ++ Gum. ++ Booze. +</code></pre> + +<p>and this:</p> + +<pre><code>- Candy. +- Gum. +- Booze. +</code></pre> + +<p>all produce the same output:</p> + +<pre><code><ul> +<li>Candy.</li> +<li>Gum.</li> +<li>Booze.</li> +</ul> +</code></pre> + +<p>Ordered (numbered) lists use regular numbers, followed by periods, as +list markers:</p> + +<pre><code>1. Red +2. Green +3. Blue +</code></pre> + +<p>Output:</p> + +<pre><code><ol> +<li>Red</li> +<li>Green</li> +<li>Blue</li> +</ol> +</code></pre> + +<p>If you put blank lines between items, you'll get <code><p></code> tags for the +list item text. You can create multi-paragraph list items by indenting +the paragraphs by 4 spaces or 1 tab:</p> + +<pre><code>* A list item. + + With multiple paragraphs. + +* Another item in the list. +</code></pre> + +<p>Output:</p> + +<pre><code><ul> +<li><p>A list item.</p> +<p>With multiple paragraphs.</p></li> +<li><p>Another item in the list.</p></li> +</ul> +</code></pre> + +<h3>Links</h3> + +<p>Markdown supports two styles for creating links: <em>inline</em> and +<em>reference</em>. With both styles, you use square brackets to delimit the +text you want to turn into a link.</p> + +<p>Inline-style links use parentheses immediately after the link text. +For example:</p> + +<pre><code>This is an [example link](http://example.com/). +</code></pre> + +<p>Output:</p> + +<pre><code><p>This is an <a href="http://example.com/"> +example link</a>.</p> +</code></pre> + +<p>Optionally, you may include a title attribute in the parentheses:</p> + +<pre><code>This is an [example link](http://example.com/ "With a Title"). +</code></pre> + +<p>Output:</p> + +<pre><code><p>This is an <a href="http://example.com/" title="With a Title"> +example link</a>.</p> +</code></pre> + +<p>Reference-style links allow you to refer to your links by names, which +you define elsewhere in your document:</p> + +<pre><code>I get 10 times more traffic from [Google][1] than from +[Yahoo][2] or [MSN][3]. + +[1]: http://google.com/ "Google" +[2]: http://search.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Search" +[3]: http://search.msn.com/ "MSN Search" +</code></pre> + +<p>Output:</p> + +<pre><code><p>I get 10 times more traffic from <a href="http://google.com/" +title="Google">Google</a> than from <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/" +title="Yahoo Search">Yahoo</a> or <a href="http://search.msn.com/" +title="MSN Search">MSN</a>.</p> +</code></pre> + +<p>The title attribute is optional. Link names may contain letters, +numbers and spaces, but are <em>not</em> case sensitive:</p> + +<pre><code>I start my morning with a cup of coffee and +[The New York Times][NY Times]. + +[ny times]: http://www.nytimes.com/ +</code></pre> + +<p>Output:</p> + +<pre><code><p>I start my morning with a cup of coffee and +<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/">The New York Times</a>.</p> +</code></pre> + +<h3>Images</h3> + +<p>Image syntax is very much like link syntax.</p> + +<p>Inline (titles are optional):</p> + +<pre><code>![alt text](/path/to/img.jpg "Title") +</code></pre> + +<p>Reference-style:</p> + +<pre><code>![alt text][id] + +[id]: /path/to/img.jpg "Title" +</code></pre> + +<p>Both of the above examples produce the same output:</p> + +<pre><code><img src="/path/to/img.jpg" alt="alt text" title="Title" /> +</code></pre> + +<h3>Code</h3> + +<p>In a regular paragraph, you can create code span by wrapping text in +backtick quotes. Any ampersands (<code>&</code>) and angle brackets (<code><</code> or +<code>></code>) will automatically be translated into HTML entities. This makes +it easy to use Markdown to write about HTML example code:</p> + +<pre><code>I strongly recommend against using any `<blink>` tags. + +I wish SmartyPants used named entities like `&mdash;` +instead of decimal-encoded entites like `&#8212;`. +</code></pre> + +<p>Output:</p> + +<pre><code><p>I strongly recommend against using any +<code>&lt;blink&gt;</code> tags.</p> + +<p>I wish SmartyPants used named entities like +<code>&amp;mdash;</code> instead of decimal-encoded +entites like <code>&amp;#8212;</code>.</p> +</code></pre> + +<p>To specify an entire block of pre-formatted code, indent every line of +the block by 4 spaces or 1 tab. Just like with code spans, <code>&</code>, <code><</code>, +and <code>></code> characters will be escaped automatically.</p> + +<p>Markdown:</p> + +<pre><code>If you want your page to validate under XHTML 1.0 Strict, +you've got to put paragraph tags in your blockquotes: + + <blockquote> + <p>For example.</p> + </blockquote> +</code></pre> + +<p>Output:</p> + +<pre><code><p>If you want your page to validate under XHTML 1.0 Strict, +you've got to put paragraph tags in your blockquotes:</p> + +<pre><code>&lt;blockquote&gt; + &lt;p&gt;For example.&lt;/p&gt; +&lt;/blockquote&gt; +</code></pre> +</code></pre>
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-<h1>Markdown: Basics</h1> - -<ul id="ProjectSubmenu"> - <li><a href="/projects/markdown/" title="Markdown Project Page">Main</a></li> - <li><a class="selected" title="Markdown Basics">Basics</a></li> - <li><a href="/projects/markdown/syntax" title="Markdown Syntax Documentation">Syntax</a></li> - <li><a href="/projects/markdown/license" title="Pricing and License Information">License</a></li> - <li><a href="/projects/markdown/dingus" title="Online Markdown Web Form">Dingus</a></li> -</ul> - -<h2>Getting the Gist of Markdown's Formatting Syntax</h2> - -<p>This page offers a brief overview of what it's like to use Markdown. -The <a href="/projects/markdown/syntax" title="Markdown Syntax">syntax page</a> provides complete, detailed documentation for -every feature, but Markdown should be very easy to pick up simply by -looking at a few examples of it in action. The examples on this page -are written in a before/after style, showing example syntax and the -HTML output produced by Markdown.</p> - -<p>It's also helpful to simply try Markdown out; the <a href="/projects/markdown/dingus" title="Markdown Dingus">Dingus</a> is a -web application that allows you type your own Markdown-formatted text -and translate it to XHTML.</p> - -<p><strong>Note:</strong> This document is itself written using Markdown; you -can <a href="/projects/markdown/basics.text">see the source for it by adding '.text' to the URL</a>.</p> - -<h2>Paragraphs, Headers, Blockquotes</h2> - -<p>A paragraph is simply one or more consecutive lines of text, separated -by one or more blank lines. (A blank line is any line that looks like a -blank line -- a line containing nothing spaces or tabs is considered -blank.) Normal paragraphs should not be intended with spaces or tabs.</p> - -<p>Markdown offers two styles of headers: <em>Setext</em> and <em>atx</em>. -Setext-style headers for <code><h1></code> and <code><h2></code> are created by -"underlining" with equal signs (<code>=</code>) and hyphens (<code>-</code>), respectively. -To create an atx-style header, you put 1-6 hash marks (<code>#</code>) at the -beginning of the line -- the number of hashes equals the resulting -HTML header level.</p> - -<p>Blockquotes are indicated using email-style '<code>></code>' angle brackets.</p> - -<p>Markdown:</p> - -<pre><code>A First Level Header -==================== - -A Second Level Header ---------------------- - -Now is the time for all good men to come to -the aid of their country. This is just a -regular paragraph. - -The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy -dog's back. - -### Header 3 - -> This is a blockquote. -> -> This is the second paragraph in the blockquote. -> -> ## This is an H2 in a blockquote -</code></pre> - -<p>Output:</p> - -<pre><code><h1>A First Level Header</h1> - -<h2>A Second Level Header</h2> - -<p>Now is the time for all good men to come to -the aid of their country. This is just a -regular paragraph.</p> - -<p>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy -dog's back.</p> - -<h3>Header 3</h3> - -<blockquote> - <p>This is a blockquote.</p> - - <p>This is the second paragraph in the blockquote.</p> - - <h2>This is an H2 in a blockquote</h2> -</blockquote> -</code></pre> - -<h3>Phrase Emphasis</h3> - -<p>Markdown uses asterisks and underscores to indicate spans of emphasis.</p> - -<p>Markdown:</p> - -<pre><code>Some of these words *are emphasized*. -Some of these words _are emphasized also_. - -Use two asterisks for **strong emphasis**. -Or, if you prefer, __use two underscores instead__. -</code></pre> - -<p>Output:</p> - -<pre><code><p>Some of these words <em>are emphasized</em>. -Some of these words <em>are emphasized also</em>.</p> - -<p>Use two asterisks for <strong>strong emphasis</strong>. -Or, if you prefer, <strong>use two underscores instead</strong>.</p> -</code></pre> - -<h2>Lists</h2> - -<p>Unordered (bulleted) lists use asterisks, pluses, and hyphens (<code>*</code>, -<code>+</code>, and <code>-</code>) as list markers. These three markers are -interchangable; this:</p> - -<pre><code>* Candy. -* Gum. -* Booze. -</code></pre> - -<p>this:</p> - -<pre><code>+ Candy. -+ Gum. -+ Booze. -</code></pre> - -<p>and this:</p> - -<pre><code>- Candy. -- Gum. -- Booze. -</code></pre> - -<p>all produce the same output:</p> - -<pre><code><ul> -<li>Candy.</li> -<li>Gum.</li> -<li>Booze.</li> -</ul> -</code></pre> - -<p>Ordered (numbered) lists use regular numbers, followed by periods, as -list markers:</p> - -<pre><code>1. Red -2. Green -3. Blue -</code></pre> - -<p>Output:</p> - -<pre><code><ol> -<li>Red</li> -<li>Green</li> -<li>Blue</li> -</ol> -</code></pre> - -<p>If you put blank lines between items, you'll get <code><p></code> tags for the -list item text. You can create multi-paragraph list items by indenting -the paragraphs by 4 spaces or 1 tab:</p> - -<pre><code>* A list item. - - With multiple paragraphs. - -* Another item in the list. -</code></pre> - -<p>Output:</p> - -<pre><code><ul> -<li><p>A list item.</p> -<p>With multiple paragraphs.</p></li> -<li><p>Another item in the list.</p></li> -</ul> -</code></pre> - -<h3>Links</h3> - -<p>Markdown supports two styles for creating links: <em>inline</em> and -<em>reference</em>. With both styles, you use square brackets to delimit the -text you want to turn into a link.</p> - -<p>Inline-style links use parentheses immediately after the link text. -For example:</p> - -<pre><code>This is an [example link](http://example.com/). -</code></pre> - -<p>Output:</p> - -<pre><code><p>This is an <a href="http://example.com/"> -example link</a>.</p> -</code></pre> - -<p>Optionally, you may include a title attribute in the parentheses:</p> - -<pre><code>This is an [example link](http://example.com/ "With a Title"). -</code></pre> - -<p>Output:</p> - -<pre><code><p>This is an <a href="http://example.com/" title="With a Title"> -example link</a>.</p> -</code></pre> - -<p>Reference-style links allow you to refer to your links by names, which -you define elsewhere in your document:</p> - -<pre><code>I get 10 times more traffic from [Google][1] than from -[Yahoo][2] or [MSN][3]. - -[1]: http://google.com/ "Google" -[2]: http://search.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Search" -[3]: http://search.msn.com/ "MSN Search" -</code></pre> - -<p>Output:</p> - -<pre><code><p>I get 10 times more traffic from <a href="http://google.com/" -title="Google">Google</a> than from <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/" -title="Yahoo Search">Yahoo</a> or <a href="http://search.msn.com/" -title="MSN Search">MSN</a>.</p> -</code></pre> - -<p>The title attribute is optional. Link names may contain letters, -numbers and spaces, but are <em>not</em> case sensitive:</p> - -<pre><code>I start my morning with a cup of coffee and -[The New York Times][NY Times]. - -[ny times]: http://www.nytimes.com/ -</code></pre> - -<p>Output:</p> - -<pre><code><p>I start my morning with a cup of coffee and -<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/">The New York Times</a>.</p> -</code></pre> - -<h3>Images</h3> - -<p>Image syntax is very much like link syntax.</p> - -<p>Inline (titles are optional):</p> - -<pre><code>![alt text](/path/to/img.jpg "Title") -</code></pre> - -<p>Reference-style:</p> - -<pre><code>![alt text][id] - -[id]: /path/to/img.jpg "Title" -</code></pre> - -<p>Both of the above examples produce the same output:</p> - -<pre><code><img src="/path/to/img.jpg" alt="alt text" title="Title" /> -</code></pre> - -<h3>Code</h3> - -<p>In a regular paragraph, you can create code span by wrapping text in -backtick quotes. Any ampersands (<code>&</code>) and angle brackets (<code><</code> or -<code>></code>) will automatically be translated into HTML entities. This makes -it easy to use Markdown to write about HTML example code:</p> - -<pre><code>I strongly recommend against using any `<blink>` tags. - -I wish SmartyPants used named entities like `&mdash;` -instead of decimal-encoded entites like `&#8212;`. -</code></pre> - -<p>Output:</p> - -<pre><code><p>I strongly recommend against using any -<code>&lt;blink&gt;</code> tags.</p> - -<p>I wish SmartyPants used named entities like -<code>&amp;mdash;</code> instead of decimal-encoded -entites like <code>&amp;#8212;</code>.</p> -</code></pre> - -<p>To specify an entire block of pre-formatted code, indent every line of -the block by 4 spaces or 1 tab. Just like with code spans, <code>&</code>, <code><</code>, -and <code>></code> characters will be escaped automatically.</p> - -<p>Markdown:</p> - -<pre><code>If you want your page to validate under XHTML 1.0 Strict, -you've got to put paragraph tags in your blockquotes: - - <blockquote> - <p>For example.</p> - </blockquote> -</code></pre> - -<p>Output:</p> - -<pre><code><p>If you want your page to validate under XHTML 1.0 Strict, -you've got to put paragraph tags in your blockquotes:</p> - -<pre><code>&lt;blockquote&gt; - &lt;p&gt;For example.&lt;/p&gt; -&lt;/blockquote&gt; -</code></pre> -</code></pre>
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+<h1>Markdown: Syntax</h1> + +<ul id="ProjectSubmenu"> + <li><a href="/projects/markdown/" title="Markdown Project Page">Main</a></li> + <li><a href="/projects/markdown/basics" title="Markdown Basics">Basics</a></li> + <li><a class="selected" title="Markdown Syntax Documentation">Syntax</a></li> + <li><a href="/projects/markdown/license" title="Pricing and License Information">License</a></li> + <li><a href="/projects/markdown/dingus" title="Online Markdown Web Form">Dingus</a></li> +</ul> + +<ul> +<li><a href="#overview">Overview</a> + +<ul> +<li><a href="#philosophy">Philosophy</a></li> +<li><a href="#html">Inline HTML</a></li> +<li><a href="#autoescape">Automatic Escaping for Special Characters</a></li> +</ul></li> +<li><a href="#block">Block Elements</a> + +<ul> +<li><a href="#p">Paragraphs and Line Breaks</a></li> +<li><a href="#header">Headers</a></li> +<li><a href="#blockquote">Blockquotes</a></li> +<li><a href="#list">Lists</a></li> +<li><a href="#precode">Code Blocks</a></li> +<li><a href="#hr">Horizontal Rules</a></li> +</ul></li> +<li><a href="#span">Span Elements</a> + +<ul> +<li><a href="#link">Links</a></li> +<li><a href="#em">Emphasis</a></li> +<li><a href="#code">Code</a></li> +<li><a href="#img">Images</a></li> +</ul></li> +<li><a href="#misc">Miscellaneous</a> + +<ul> +<li><a href="#backslash">Backslash Escapes</a></li> +<li><a href="#autolink">Automatic Links</a></li> +</ul></li> +</ul> + +<p><strong>Note:</strong> This document is itself written using Markdown; you +can <a href="/projects/markdown/syntax.text">see the source for it by adding '.text' to the URL</a>.</p> + +<hr> + +<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2> + +<h3 id="philosophy">Philosophy</h3> + +<p>Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible.</p> + +<p>Readability, however, is emphasized above all else. A Markdown-formatted +document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking +like it's been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While +Markdown's syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML +filters -- including <a href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/mirror/setext.html">Setext</a>, <a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/atx/">atx</a>, <a href="http://textism.com/tools/textile/">Textile</a>, <a href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html">reStructuredText</a>, +<a href="http://www.triptico.com/software/grutatxt.html">Grutatext</a>, and <a href="http://ettext.taint.org/doc/">EtText</a> -- the single biggest source of +inspiration for Markdown's syntax is the format of plain text email.</p> + +<p>To this end, Markdown's syntax is comprised entirely of punctuation +characters, which punctuation characters have been carefully chosen so +as to look like what they mean. E.g., asterisks around a word actually +look like *emphasis*. Markdown lists look like, well, lists. Even +blockquotes look like quoted passages of text, assuming you've ever +used email.</p> + +<h3 id="html">Inline HTML</h3> + +<p>Markdown's syntax is intended for one purpose: to be used as a +format for <em>writing</em> for the web.</p> + +<p>Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it. Its +syntax is very small, corresponding only to a very small subset of +HTML tags. The idea is <em>not</em> to create a syntax that makes it easier +to insert HTML tags. In my opinion, HTML tags are already easy to +insert. The idea for Markdown is to make it easy to read, write, and +edit prose. HTML is a <em>publishing</em> format; Markdown is a <em>writing</em> +format. Thus, Markdown's formatting syntax only addresses issues that +can be conveyed in plain text.</p> + +<p>For any markup that is not covered by Markdown's syntax, you simply +use HTML itself. There's no need to preface it or delimit it to +indicate that you're switching from Markdown to HTML; you just use +the tags.</p> + +<p>The only restrictions are that block-level HTML elements -- e.g. <code><div></code>, +<code><table></code>, <code><pre></code>, <code><p></code>, etc. -- must be separated from surrounding +content by blank lines, and the start and end tags of the block should +not be indented with tabs or spaces. Markdown is smart enough not +to add extra (unwanted) <code><p></code> tags around HTML block-level tags.</p> + +<p>For example, to add an HTML table to a Markdown article:</p> + +<pre><code>This is a regular paragraph. + +<table> + <tr> + <td>Foo</td> + </tr> +</table> + +This is another regular paragraph. +</code></pre> + +<p>Note that Markdown formatting syntax is not processed within block-level +HTML tags. E.g., you can't use Markdown-style <code>*emphasis*</code> inside an +HTML block.</p> + +<p>Span-level HTML tags -- e.g. <code><span></code>, <code><cite></code>, or <code><del></code> -- can be +used anywhere in a Markdown paragraph, list item, or header. If you +want, you can even use HTML tags instead of Markdown formatting; e.g. if +you'd prefer to use HTML <code><a></code> or <code><img></code> tags instead of Markdown's +link or image syntax, go right ahead.</p> + +<p>Unlike block-level HTML tags, Markdown syntax <em>is</em> processed within +span-level tags.</p> + +<h3 id="autoescape">Automatic Escaping for Special Characters</h3> + +<p>In HTML, there are two characters that demand special treatment: <code><</code> +and <code>&</code>. Left angle brackets are used to start tags; ampersands are +used to denote HTML entities. If you want to use them as literal +characters, you must escape them as entities, e.g. <code>&lt;</code>, and +<code>&amp;</code>.</p> + +<p>Ampersands in particular are bedeviling for web writers. If you want to +write about 'AT&T', you need to write '<code>AT&amp;T</code>'. You even need to +escape ampersands within URLs. Thus, if you want to link to:</p> + +<pre><code>http://images.google.com/images?num=30&q=larry+bird +</code></pre> + +<p>you need to encode the URL as:</p> + +<pre><code>http://images.google.com/images?num=30&amp;q=larry+bird +</code></pre> + +<p>in your anchor tag <code>href</code> attribute. Needless to say, this is easy to +forget, and is probably the single most common source of HTML validation +errors in otherwise well-marked-up web sites.</p> + +<p>Markdown allows you to use these characters naturally, taking care of +all the necessary escaping for you. If you use an ampersand as part of +an HTML entity, it remains unchanged; otherwise it will be translated +into <code>&amp;</code>.</p> + +<p>So, if you want to include a copyright symbol in your article, you can write:</p> + +<pre><code>&copy; +</code></pre> + +<p>and Markdown will leave it alone. But if you write:</p> + +<pre><code>AT&T +</code></pre> + +<p>Markdown will translate it to:</p> + +<pre><code>AT&amp;T +</code></pre> + +<p>Similarly, because Markdown supports <a href="#html">inline HTML</a>, if you use +angle brackets as delimiters for HTML tags, Markdown will treat them as +such. But if you write:</p> + +<pre><code>4 < 5 +</code></pre> + +<p>Markdown will translate it to:</p> + +<pre><code>4 &lt; 5 +</code></pre> + +<p>However, inside Markdown code spans and blocks, angle brackets and +ampersands are <em>always</em> encoded automatically. This makes it easy to use +Markdown to write about HTML code. (As opposed to raw HTML, which is a +terrible format for writing about HTML syntax, because every single <code><</code> +and <code>&</code> in your example code needs to be escaped.)</p> + +<hr> + +<h2 id="block">Block Elements</h2> + +<h3 id="p">Paragraphs and Line Breaks</h3> + +<p>A paragraph is simply one or more consecutive lines of text, separated +by one or more blank lines. (A blank line is any line that looks like a +blank line -- a line containing nothing but spaces or tabs is considered +blank.) Normal paragraphs should not be intended with spaces or tabs.</p> + +<p>The implication of the "one or more consecutive lines of text" rule is +that Markdown supports "hard-wrapped" text paragraphs. This differs +significantly from most other text-to-HTML formatters (including Movable +Type's "Convert Line Breaks" option) which translate every line break +character in a paragraph into a <code><br /></code> tag.</p> + +<p>When you <em>do</em> want to insert a <code><br /></code> break tag using Markdown, you +end a line with two or more spaces, then type return.</p> + +<p>Yes, this takes a tad more effort to create a <code><br /></code>, but a simplistic +"every line break is a <code><br /></code>" rule wouldn't work for Markdown. +Markdown's email-style <a href="#blockquote">blockquoting</a> and multi-paragraph <a href="#list">list items</a> +work best -- and look better -- when you format them with hard breaks.</p> + +<h3 id="header">Headers</h3> + +<p>Markdown supports two styles of headers, <a href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/mirror/setext.html">Setext</a> and <a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/atx/">atx</a>.</p> + +<p>Setext-style headers are "underlined" using equal signs (for first-level +headers) and dashes (for second-level headers). For example:</p> + +<pre><code>This is an H1 +============= + +This is an H2 +------------- +</code></pre> + +<p>Any number of underlining <code>=</code>'s or <code>-</code>'s will work.</p> + +<p>Atx-style headers use 1-6 hash characters at the start of the line, +corresponding to header levels 1-6. For example:</p> + +<pre><code># This is an H1 + +## This is an H2 + +###### This is an H6 +</code></pre> + +<p>Optionally, you may "close" atx-style headers. This is purely +cosmetic -- you can use this if you think it looks better. The +closing hashes don't even need to match the number of hashes +used to open the header. (The number of opening hashes +determines the header level.) :</p> + +<pre><code># This is an H1 # + +## This is an H2 ## + +### This is an H3 ###### +</code></pre> + +<h3 id="blockquote">Blockquotes</h3> + +<p>Markdown uses email-style <code>></code> characters for blockquoting. If you're +familiar with quoting passages of text in an email message, then you +know how to create a blockquote in Markdown. It looks best if you hard +wrap the text and put a <code>></code> before every line:</p> + +<pre><code>> This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, +> consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. +> Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. +> +> Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. Suspendisse +> id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. +</code></pre> + +<p>Markdown allows you to be lazy and only put the <code>></code> before the first +line of a hard-wrapped paragraph:</p> + +<pre><code>> This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, +consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. +Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. + +> Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. Suspendisse +id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. +</code></pre> + +<p>Blockquotes can be nested (i.e. a blockquote-in-a-blockquote) by +adding additional levels of <code>></code>:</p> + +<pre><code>> This is the first level of quoting. +> +> > This is nested blockquote. +> +> Back to the first level. +</code></pre> + +<p>Blockquotes can contain other Markdown elements, including headers, lists, +and code blocks:</p> + +<pre><code>> ## This is a header. +> +> 1. This is the first list item. +> 2. This is the second list item. +> +> Here's some example code: +> +> return shell_exec("echo $input | $markdown_script"); +</code></pre> + +<p>Any decent text editor should make email-style quoting easy. For +example, with BBEdit, you can make a selection and choose Increase +Quote Level from the Text menu.</p> + +<h3 id="list">Lists</h3> + +<p>Markdown supports ordered (numbered) and unordered (bulleted) lists.</p> + +<p>Unordered lists use asterisks, pluses, and hyphens -- interchangably +-- as list markers:</p> + +<pre><code>* Red +* Green +* Blue +</code></pre> + +<p>is equivalent to:</p> + +<pre><code>+ Red ++ Green ++ Blue +</code></pre> + +<p>and:</p> + +<pre><code>- Red +- Green +- Blue +</code></pre> + +<p>Ordered lists use numbers followed by periods:</p> + +<pre><code>1. Bird +2. McHale +3. Parish +</code></pre> + +<p>It's important to note that the actual numbers you use to mark the +list have no effect on the HTML output Markdown produces. The HTML +Markdown produces from the above list is:</p> + +<pre><code><ol> +<li>Bird</li> +<li>McHale</li> +<li>Parish</li> +</ol> +</code></pre> + +<p>If you instead wrote the list in Markdown like this:</p> + +<pre><code>1. Bird +1. McHale +1. Parish +</code></pre> + +<p>or even:</p> + +<pre><code>3. Bird +1. McHale +8. Parish +</code></pre> + +<p>you'd get the exact same HTML output. The point is, if you want to, +you can use ordinal numbers in your ordered Markdown lists, so that +the numbers in your source match the numbers in your published HTML. +But if you want to be lazy, you don't have to.</p> + +<p>If you do use lazy list numbering, however, you should still start the +list with the number 1. At some point in the future, Markdown may support +starting ordered lists at an arbitrary number.</p> + +<p>List markers typically start at the left margin, but may be indented by +up to three spaces. List markers must be followed by one or more spaces +or a tab.</p> + +<p>To make lists look nice, you can wrap items with hanging indents:</p> + +<pre><code>* Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. + Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. Vestibulum enim wisi, + viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. +* Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. + Suspendisse id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. +</code></pre> + +<p>But if you want to be lazy, you don't have to:</p> + +<pre><code>* Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. +Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. Vestibulum enim wisi, +viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. +* Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. +Suspendisse id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. +</code></pre> + +<p>If list items are separated by blank lines, Markdown will wrap the +items in <code><p></code> tags in the HTML output. For example, this input:</p> + +<pre><code>* Bird +* Magic +</code></pre> + +<p>will turn into:</p> + +<pre><code><ul> +<li>Bird</li> +<li>Magic</li> +</ul> +</code></pre> + +<p>But this:</p> + +<pre><code>* Bird + +* Magic +</code></pre> + +<p>will turn into:</p> + +<pre><code><ul> +<li><p>Bird</p></li> +<li><p>Magic</p></li> +</ul> +</code></pre> + +<p>List items may consist of multiple paragraphs. Each subsequent +paragraph in a list item must be intended by either 4 spaces +or one tab:</p> + +<pre><code>1. This is a list item with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor + sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit + mi posuere lectus. + + Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet + vitae, risus. Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum + sit amet velit. + +2. Suspendisse id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. +</code></pre> + +<p>It looks nice if you indent every line of the subsequent +paragraphs, but here again, Markdown will allow you to be +lazy:</p> + +<pre><code>* This is a list item with two paragraphs. + + This is the second paragraph in the list item. You're +only required to indent the first line. Lorem ipsum dolor +sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. + +* Another item in the same list. +</code></pre> + +<p>To put a blockquote within a list item, the blockquote's <code>></code> +delimiters need to be indented:</p> + +<pre><code>* A list item with a blockquote: + + > This is a blockquote + > inside a list item. +</code></pre> + +<p>To put a code block within a list item, the code block needs +to be indented <em>twice</em> -- 8 spaces or two tabs:</p> + +<pre><code>* A list item with a code block: + + <code goes here> +</code></pre> + +<p>It's worth noting that it's possible to trigger an ordered list by +accident, by writing something like this:</p> + +<pre><code>1986. What a great season. +</code></pre> + +<p>In other words, a <em>number-period-space</em> sequence at the beginning of a +line. To avoid this, you can backslash-escape the period:</p> + +<pre><code>1986\. What a great season. +</code></pre> + +<h3 id="precode">Code Blocks</h3> + +<p>Pre-formatted code blocks are used for writing about programming or +markup source code. Rather than forming normal paragraphs, the lines +of a code block are interpreted literally. Markdown wraps a code block +in both <code><pre></code> and <code><code></code> tags.</p> + +<p>To produce a code block in Markdown, simply indent every line of the +block by at least 4 spaces or 1 tab. For example, given this input:</p> + +<pre><code>This is a normal paragraph: + + This is a code block. +</code></pre> + +<p>Markdown will generate:</p> + +<pre><code><p>This is a normal paragraph:</p> + +<pre><code>This is a code block. +</code></pre> +</code></pre> + +<p>One level of indentation -- 4 spaces or 1 tab -- is removed from each +line of the code block. For example, this:</p> + +<pre><code>Here is an example of AppleScript: + + tell application "Foo" + beep + end tell +</code></pre> + +<p>will turn into:</p> + +<pre><code><p>Here is an example of AppleScript:</p> + +<pre><code>tell application "Foo" + beep +end tell +</code></pre> +</code></pre> + +<p>A code block continues until it reaches a line that is not indented +(or the end of the article).</p> + +<p>Within a code block, ampersands (<code>&</code>) and angle brackets (<code><</code> and <code>></code>) +are automatically converted into HTML entities. This makes it very +easy to include example HTML source code using Markdown -- just paste +it and indent it, and Markdown will handle the hassle of encoding the +ampersands and angle brackets. For example, this:</p> + +<pre><code> <div class="footer"> + &copy; 2004 Foo Corporation + </div> +</code></pre> + +<p>will turn into:</p> + +<pre><code><pre><code>&lt;div class="footer"&gt; + &amp;copy; 2004 Foo Corporation +&lt;/div&gt; +</code></pre> +</code></pre> + +<p>Regular Markdown syntax is not processed within code blocks. E.g., +asterisks are just literal asterisks within a code block. This means +it's also easy to use Markdown to write about Markdown's own syntax.</p> + +<h3 id="hr">Horizontal Rules</h3> + +<p>You can produce a horizontal rule tag (<code><hr /></code>) by placing three or +more hyphens, asterisks, or underscores on a line by themselves. If you +wish, you may use spaces between the hyphens or asterisks. Each of the +following lines will produce a horizontal rule:</p> + +<pre><code>* * * + +*** + +***** + +- - - + +--------------------------------------- + +_ _ _ +</code></pre> + +<hr> + +<h2 id="span">Span Elements</h2> + +<h3 id="link">Links</h3> + +<p>Markdown supports two style of links: <em>inline</em> and <em>reference</em>.</p> + +<p>In both styles, the link text is delimited by [square brackets].</p> + +<p>To create an inline link, use a set of regular parentheses immediately +after the link text's closing square bracket. Inside the parentheses, +put the URL where you want the link to point, along with an <em>optional</em> +title for the link, surrounded in quotes. For example:</p> + +<pre><code>This is [an example](http://example.com/ "Title") inline link. + +[This link](http://example.net/) has no title attribute. +</code></pre> + +<p>Will produce:</p> + +<pre><code><p>This is <a href="http://example.com/" title="Title"> +an example</a> inline link.</p> + +<p><a href="http://example.net/">This link</a> has no +title attribute.</p> +</code></pre> + +<p>If you're referring to a local resource on the same server, you can +use relative paths:</p> + +<pre><code>See my [About](/about/) page for details. +</code></pre> + +<p>Reference-style links use a second set of square brackets, inside +which you place a label of your choosing to identify the link:</p> + +<pre><code>This is [an example][id] reference-style link. +</code></pre> + +<p>You can optionally use a space to separate the sets of brackets:</p> + +<pre><code>This is [an example] [id] reference-style link. +</code></pre> + +<p>Then, anywhere in the document, you define your link label like this, +on a line by itself:</p> + +<pre><code>[id]: http://example.com/ "Optional Title Here" +</code></pre> + +<p>That is:</p> + +<ul> +<li>Square brackets containing the link identifier (optionally +indented from the left margin using up to three spaces);</li> +<li>followed by a colon;</li> +<li>followed by one or more spaces (or tabs);</li> +<li>followed by the URL for the link;</li> +<li>optionally followed by a title attribute for the link, enclosed +in double or single quotes.</li> +</ul> + +<p>The link URL may, optionally, be surrounded by angle brackets:</p> + +<pre><code>[id]: <http://example.com/> "Optional Title Here" +</code></pre> + +<p>You can put the title attribute on the next line and use extra spaces +or tabs for padding, which tends to look better with longer URLs:</p> + +<pre><code>[id]: http://example.com/longish/path/to/resource/here + "Optional Title Here" +</code></pre> + +<p>Link definitions are only used for creating links during Markdown +processing, and are stripped from your document in the HTML output.</p> + +<p>Link definition names may constist of letters, numbers, spaces, and punctuation -- but they are <em>not</em> case sensitive. E.g. these two links:</p> + +<pre><code>[link text][a] +[link text][A] +</code></pre> + +<p>are equivalent.</p> + +<p>The <em>implicit link name</em> shortcut allows you to omit the name of the +link, in which case the link text itself is used as the name. +Just use an empty set of square brackets -- e.g., to link the word +"Google" to the google.com web site, you could simply write:</p> + +<pre><code>[Google][] +</code></pre> + +<p>And then define the link:</p> + +<pre><code>[Google]: http://google.com/ +</code></pre> + +<p>Because link names may contain spaces, this shortcut even works for +multiple words in the link text:</p> + +<pre><code>Visit [Daring Fireball][] for more information. +</code></pre> + +<p>And then define the link:</p> + +<pre><code>[Daring Fireball]: http://daringfireball.net/ +</code></pre> + +<p>Link definitions can be placed anywhere in your Markdown document. I +tend to put them immediately after each paragraph in which they're +used, but if you want, you can put them all at the end of your +document, sort of like footnotes.</p> + +<p>Here's an example of reference links in action:</p> + +<pre><code>I get 10 times more traffic from [Google] [1] than from +[Yahoo] [2] or [MSN] [3]. + + [1]: http://google.com/ "Google" + [2]: http://search.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Search" + [3]: http://search.msn.com/ "MSN Search" +</code></pre> + +<p>Using the implicit link name shortcut, you could instead write:</p> + +<pre><code>I get 10 times more traffic from [Google][] than from +[Yahoo][] or [MSN][]. + + [google]: http://google.com/ "Google" + [yahoo]: http://search.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Search" + [msn]: http://search.msn.com/ "MSN Search" +</code></pre> + +<p>Both of the above examples will produce the following HTML output:</p> + +<pre><code><p>I get 10 times more traffic from <a href="http://google.com/" +title="Google">Google</a> than from +<a href="http://search.yahoo.com/" title="Yahoo Search">Yahoo</a> +or <a href="http://search.msn.com/" title="MSN Search">MSN</a>.</p> +</code></pre> + +<p>For comparison, here is the same paragraph written using +Markdown's inline link style:</p> + +<pre><code>I get 10 times more traffic from [Google](http://google.com/ "Google") +than from [Yahoo](http://search.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Search") or +[MSN](http://search.msn.com/ "MSN Search"). +</code></pre> + +<p>The point of reference-style links is not that they're easier to +write. The point is that with reference-style links, your document +source is vastly more readable. Compare the above examples: using +reference-style links, the paragraph itself is only 81 characters +long; with inline-style links, it's 176 characters; and as raw HTML, +it's 234 characters. In the raw HTML, there's more markup than there +is text.</p> + +<p>With Markdown's reference-style links, a source document much more +closely resembles the final output, as rendered in a browser. By +allowing you to move the markup-related metadata out of the paragraph, +you can add links without interrupting the narrative flow of your +prose.</p> + +<h3 id="em">Emphasis</h3> + +<p>Markdown treats asterisks (<code>*</code>) and underscores (<code>_</code>) as indicators of +emphasis. Text wrapped with one <code>*</code> or <code>_</code> will be wrapped with an +HTML <code><em></code> tag; double <code>*</code>'s or <code>_</code>'s will be wrapped with an HTML +<code><strong></code> tag. E.g., this input:</p> + +<pre><code>*single asterisks* + +_single underscores_ + +**double asterisks** + +__double underscores__ +</code></pre> + +<p>will produce:</p> + +<pre><code><em>single asterisks</em> + +<em>single underscores</em> + +<strong>double asterisks</strong> + +<strong>double underscores</strong> +</code></pre> + +<p>You can use whichever style you prefer; the lone restriction is that +the same character must be used to open and close an emphasis span.</p> + +<p>Emphasis can be used in the middle of a word:</p> + +<pre><code>un*fucking*believable +</code></pre> + +<p>But if you surround an <code>*</code> or <code>_</code> with spaces, it'll be treated as a +literal asterisk or underscore.</p> + +<p>To produce a literal asterisk or underscore at a position where it +would otherwise be used as an emphasis delimiter, you can backslash +escape it:</p> + +<pre><code>\*this text is surrounded by literal asterisks\* +</code></pre> + +<h3 id="code">Code</h3> + +<p>To indicate a span of code, wrap it with backtick quotes (<code>`</code>). +Unlike a pre-formatted code block, a code span indicates code within a +normal paragraph. For example:</p> + +<pre><code>Use the `printf()` function. +</code></pre> + +<p>will produce:</p> + +<pre><code><p>Use the <code>printf()</code> function.</p> +</code></pre> + +<p>To include a literal backtick character within a code span, you can use +multiple backticks as the opening and closing delimiters:</p> + +<pre><code>``There is a literal backtick (`) here.`` +</code></pre> + +<p>which will produce this:</p> + +<pre><code><p><code>There is a literal backtick (`) here.</code></p> +</code></pre> + +<p>The backtick delimiters surrounding a code span may include spaces -- +one after the opening, one before the closing. This allows you to place +literal backtick characters at the beginning or end of a code span:</p> + +<pre><code>A single backtick in a code span: `` ` `` + +A backtick-delimited string in a code span: `` `foo` `` +</code></pre> + +<p>will produce:</p> + +<pre><code><p>A single backtick in a code span: <code>`</code></p> + +<p>A backtick-delimited string in a code span: <code>`foo`</code></p> +</code></pre> + +<p>With a code span, ampersands and angle brackets are encoded as HTML +entities automatically, which makes it easy to include example HTML +tags. Markdown will turn this:</p> + +<pre><code>Please don't use any `<blink>` tags. +</code></pre> + +<p>into:</p> + +<pre><code><p>Please don't use any <code>&lt;blink&gt;</code> tags.</p> +</code></pre> + +<p>You can write this:</p> + +<pre><code>`&#8212;` is the decimal-encoded equivalent of `&mdash;`. +</code></pre> + +<p>to produce:</p> + +<pre><code><p><code>&amp;#8212;</code> is the decimal-encoded +equivalent of <code>&amp;mdash;</code>.</p> +</code></pre> + +<h3 id="img">Images</h3> + +<p>Admittedly, it's fairly difficult to devise a "natural" syntax for +placing images into a plain text document format.</p> + +<p>Markdown uses an image syntax that is intended to resemble the syntax +for links, allowing for two styles: <em>inline</em> and <em>reference</em>.</p> + +<p>Inline image syntax looks like this:</p> + +<pre><code>![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg) + +![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg "Optional title") +</code></pre> + +<p>That is:</p> + +<ul> +<li>An exclamation mark: <code>!</code>;</li> +<li>followed by a set of square brackets, containing the <code>alt</code> +attribute text for the image;</li> +<li>followed by a set of parentheses, containing the URL or path to +the image, and an optional <code>title</code> attribute enclosed in double +or single quotes.</li> +</ul> + +<p>Reference-style image syntax looks like this:</p> + +<pre><code>![Alt text][id] +</code></pre> + +<p>Where "id" is the name of a defined image reference. Image references +are defined using syntax identical to link references:</p> + +<pre><code>[id]: url/to/image "Optional title attribute" +</code></pre> + +<p>As of this writing, Markdown has no syntax for specifying the +dimensions of an image; if this is important to you, you can simply +use regular HTML <code><img></code> tags.</p> + +<hr> + +<h2 id="misc">Miscellaneous</h2> + +<h3 id="autolink">Automatic Links</h3> + +<p>Markdown supports a shortcut style for creating "automatic" links for URLs and email addresses: simply surround the URL or email address with angle brackets. What this means is that if you want to show the actual text of a URL or email address, and also have it be a clickable link, you can do this:</p> + +<pre><code><http://example.com/> +</code></pre> + +<p>Markdown will turn this into:</p> + +<pre><code><a href="http://example.com/">http://example.com/</a> +</code></pre> + +<p>Automatic links for email addresses work similarly, except that +Markdown will also perform a bit of randomized decimal and hex +entity-encoding to help obscure your address from address-harvesting +spambots. For example, Markdown will turn this:</p> + +<pre><code><address@example.com> +</code></pre> + +<p>into something like this:</p> + +<pre><code><a href="&#x6D;&#x61;i&#x6C;&#x74;&#x6F;:&#x61;&#x64;&#x64;&#x72;&#x65; +&#115;&#115;&#64;&#101;&#120;&#x61;&#109;&#x70;&#x6C;e&#x2E;&#99;&#111; +&#109;">&#x61;&#x64;&#x64;&#x72;&#x65;&#115;&#115;&#64;&#101;&#120;&#x61; +&#109;&#x70;&#x6C;e&#x2E;&#99;&#111;&#109;</a> +</code></pre> + +<p>which will render in a browser as a clickable link to "address@example.com".</p> + +<p>(This sort of entity-encoding trick will indeed fool many, if not +most, address-harvesting bots, but it definitely won't fool all of +them. It's better than nothing, but an address published in this way +will probably eventually start receiving spam.)</p> + +<h3 id="backslash">Backslash Escapes</h3> + +<p>Markdown allows you to use backslash escapes to generate literal +characters which would otherwise have special meaning in Markdown's +formatting syntax. For example, if you wanted to surround a word with +literal asterisks (instead of an HTML <code><em></code> tag), you can backslashes +before the asterisks, like this:</p> + +<pre><code>\*literal asterisks\* +</code></pre> + +<p>Markdown provides backslash escapes for the following characters:</p> + +<pre><code>\ backslash +` backtick +* asterisk +_ underscore +{} curly braces +[] square brackets +() parentheses +# hash mark ++ plus sign +- minus sign (hyphen) +. dot +! exclamation mark +</code></pre>
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-<h1>Markdown: Syntax</h1> - -<ul id="ProjectSubmenu"> - <li><a href="/projects/markdown/" title="Markdown Project Page">Main</a></li> - <li><a href="/projects/markdown/basics" title="Markdown Basics">Basics</a></li> - <li><a class="selected" title="Markdown Syntax Documentation">Syntax</a></li> - <li><a href="/projects/markdown/license" title="Pricing and License Information">License</a></li> - <li><a href="/projects/markdown/dingus" title="Online Markdown Web Form">Dingus</a></li> -</ul> - -<ul> -<li> <a href="#overview">Overview</a> - -<ul> -<li> <a href="#philosophy">Philosophy</a></li> -<li> <a href="#html">Inline HTML</a></li> -<li> <a href="#autoescape">Automatic Escaping for Special Characters</a></li> -</ul></li> -<li> <a href="#block">Block Elements</a> - -<ul> -<li> <a href="#p">Paragraphs and Line Breaks</a></li> -<li> <a href="#header">Headers</a></li> -<li> <a href="#blockquote">Blockquotes</a></li> -<li> <a href="#list">Lists</a></li> -<li> <a href="#precode">Code Blocks</a></li> -<li> <a href="#hr">Horizontal Rules</a></li> -</ul></li> -<li> <a href="#span">Span Elements</a> - -<ul> -<li> <a href="#link">Links</a></li> -<li> <a href="#em">Emphasis</a></li> -<li> <a href="#code">Code</a></li> -<li> <a href="#img">Images</a></li> -</ul></li> -<li> <a href="#misc">Miscellaneous</a> - -<ul> -<li> <a href="#backslash">Backslash Escapes</a></li> -<li> <a href="#autolink">Automatic Links</a></li> -</ul></li> -</ul> - -<p><strong>Note:</strong> This document is itself written using Markdown; you -can <a href="/projects/markdown/syntax.text">see the source for it by adding '.text' to the URL</a>.</p> - -<hr> - -<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2> - -<h3 id="philosophy">Philosophy</h3> - -<p>Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible.</p> - -<p>Readability, however, is emphasized above all else. A Markdown-formatted -document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking -like it's been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While -Markdown's syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML -filters -- including <a href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/mirror/setext.html">Setext</a>, <a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/atx/">atx</a>, <a href="http://textism.com/tools/textile/">Textile</a>, <a href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html">reStructuredText</a>, -<a href="http://www.triptico.com/software/grutatxt.html">Grutatext</a>, and <a href="http://ettext.taint.org/doc/">EtText</a> -- the single biggest source of -inspiration for Markdown's syntax is the format of plain text email.</p> - -<p>To this end, Markdown's syntax is comprised entirely of punctuation -characters, which punctuation characters have been carefully chosen so -as to look like what they mean. E.g., asterisks around a word actually -look like *emphasis*. Markdown lists look like, well, lists. Even -blockquotes look like quoted passages of text, assuming you've ever -used email.</p> - -<h3 id="html">Inline HTML</h3> - -<p>Markdown's syntax is intended for one purpose: to be used as a -format for <em>writing</em> for the web.</p> - -<p>Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it. Its -syntax is very small, corresponding only to a very small subset of -HTML tags. The idea is <em>not</em> to create a syntax that makes it easier -to insert HTML tags. In my opinion, HTML tags are already easy to -insert. The idea for Markdown is to make it easy to read, write, and -edit prose. HTML is a <em>publishing</em> format; Markdown is a <em>writing</em> -format. Thus, Markdown's formatting syntax only addresses issues that -can be conveyed in plain text.</p> - -<p>For any markup that is not covered by Markdown's syntax, you simply -use HTML itself. There's no need to preface it or delimit it to -indicate that you're switching from Markdown to HTML; you just use -the tags.</p> - -<p>The only restrictions are that block-level HTML elements -- e.g. <code><div></code>, -<code><table></code>, <code><pre></code>, <code><p></code>, etc. -- must be separated from surrounding -content by blank lines, and the start and end tags of the block should -not be indented with tabs or spaces. Markdown is smart enough not -to add extra (unwanted) <code><p></code> tags around HTML block-level tags.</p> - -<p>For example, to add an HTML table to a Markdown article:</p> - -<pre><code>This is a regular paragraph. - -<table> - <tr> - <td>Foo</td> - </tr> -</table> - -This is another regular paragraph. -</code></pre> - -<p>Note that Markdown formatting syntax is not processed within block-level -HTML tags. E.g., you can't use Markdown-style <code>*emphasis*</code> inside an -HTML block.</p> - -<p>Span-level HTML tags -- e.g. <code><span></code>, <code><cite></code>, or <code><del></code> -- can be -used anywhere in a Markdown paragraph, list item, or header. If you -want, you can even use HTML tags instead of Markdown formatting; e.g. if -you'd prefer to use HTML <code><a></code> or <code><img></code> tags instead of Markdown's -link or image syntax, go right ahead.</p> - -<p>Unlike block-level HTML tags, Markdown syntax <em>is</em> processed within -span-level tags.</p> - -<h3 id="autoescape">Automatic Escaping for Special Characters</h3> - -<p>In HTML, there are two characters that demand special treatment: <code><</code> -and <code>&</code>. Left angle brackets are used to start tags; ampersands are -used to denote HTML entities. If you want to use them as literal -characters, you must escape them as entities, e.g. <code>&lt;</code>, and -<code>&amp;</code>.</p> - -<p>Ampersands in particular are bedeviling for web writers. If you want to -write about 'AT&T', you need to write '<code>AT&amp;T</code>'. You even need to -escape ampersands within URLs. Thus, if you want to link to:</p> - -<pre><code>http://images.google.com/images?num=30&q=larry+bird -</code></pre> - -<p>you need to encode the URL as:</p> - -<pre><code>http://images.google.com/images?num=30&amp;q=larry+bird -</code></pre> - -<p>in your anchor tag <code>href</code> attribute. Needless to say, this is easy to -forget, and is probably the single most common source of HTML validation -errors in otherwise well-marked-up web sites.</p> - -<p>Markdown allows you to use these characters naturally, taking care of -all the necessary escaping for you. If you use an ampersand as part of -an HTML entity, it remains unchanged; otherwise it will be translated -into <code>&amp;</code>.</p> - -<p>So, if you want to include a copyright symbol in your article, you can write:</p> - -<pre><code>&copy; -</code></pre> - -<p>and Markdown will leave it alone. But if you write:</p> - -<pre><code>AT&T -</code></pre> - -<p>Markdown will translate it to:</p> - -<pre><code>AT&amp;T -</code></pre> - -<p>Similarly, because Markdown supports <a href="#html">inline HTML</a>, if you use -angle brackets as delimiters for HTML tags, Markdown will treat them as -such. But if you write:</p> - -<pre><code>4 < 5 -</code></pre> - -<p>Markdown will translate it to:</p> - -<pre><code>4 &lt; 5 -</code></pre> - -<p>However, inside Markdown code spans and blocks, angle brackets and -ampersands are <em>always</em> encoded automatically. This makes it easy to use -Markdown to write about HTML code. (As opposed to raw HTML, which is a -terrible format for writing about HTML syntax, because every single <code><</code> -and <code>&</code> in your example code needs to be escaped.)</p> - -<hr> - -<h2 id="block">Block Elements</h2> - -<h3 id="p">Paragraphs and Line Breaks</h3> - -<p>A paragraph is simply one or more consecutive lines of text, separated -by one or more blank lines. (A blank line is any line that looks like a -blank line -- a line containing nothing but spaces or tabs is considered -blank.) Normal paragraphs should not be intended with spaces or tabs.</p> - -<p>The implication of the "one or more consecutive lines of text" rule is -that Markdown supports "hard-wrapped" text paragraphs. This differs -significantly from most other text-to-HTML formatters (including Movable -Type's "Convert Line Breaks" option) which translate every line break -character in a paragraph into a <code><br /></code> tag.</p> - -<p>When you <em>do</em> want to insert a <code><br /></code> break tag using Markdown, you -end a line with two or more spaces, then type return.</p> - -<p>Yes, this takes a tad more effort to create a <code><br /></code>, but a simplistic -"every line break is a <code><br /></code>" rule wouldn't work for Markdown. -Markdown's email-style <a href="#blockquote">blockquoting</a> and multi-paragraph <a href="#list">list items</a> -work best -- and look better -- when you format them with hard breaks.</p> - -<h3 id="header">Headers</h3> - -<p>Markdown supports two styles of headers, <a href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/mirror/setext.html">Setext</a> and <a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/atx/">atx</a>.</p> - -<p>Setext-style headers are "underlined" using equal signs (for first-level -headers) and dashes (for second-level headers). For example:</p> - -<pre><code>This is an H1 -============= - -This is an H2 -------------- -</code></pre> - -<p>Any number of underlining <code>=</code>'s or <code>-</code>'s will work.</p> - -<p>Atx-style headers use 1-6 hash characters at the start of the line, -corresponding to header levels 1-6. For example:</p> - -<pre><code># This is an H1 - -## This is an H2 - -###### This is an H6 -</code></pre> - -<p>Optionally, you may "close" atx-style headers. This is purely -cosmetic -- you can use this if you think it looks better. The -closing hashes don't even need to match the number of hashes -used to open the header. (The number of opening hashes -determines the header level.) :</p> - -<pre><code># This is an H1 # - -## This is an H2 ## - -### This is an H3 ###### -</code></pre> - -<h3 id="blockquote">Blockquotes</h3> - -<p>Markdown uses email-style <code>></code> characters for blockquoting. If you're -familiar with quoting passages of text in an email message, then you -know how to create a blockquote in Markdown. It looks best if you hard -wrap the text and put a <code>></code> before every line:</p> - -<pre><code>> This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, -> consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. -> Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. -> -> Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. Suspendisse -> id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. -</code></pre> - -<p>Markdown allows you to be lazy and only put the <code>></code> before the first -line of a hard-wrapped paragraph:</p> - -<pre><code>> This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, -consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. -Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. - -> Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. Suspendisse -id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. -</code></pre> - -<p>Blockquotes can be nested (i.e. a blockquote-in-a-blockquote) by -adding additional levels of <code>></code>:</p> - -<pre><code>> This is the first level of quoting. -> -> > This is nested blockquote. -> -> Back to the first level. -</code></pre> - -<p>Blockquotes can contain other Markdown elements, including headers, lists, -and code blocks:</p> - -<pre><code>> ## This is a header. -> -> 1. This is the first list item. -> 2. This is the second list item. -> -> Here's some example code: -> -> return shell_exec("echo $input | $markdown_script"); -</code></pre> - -<p>Any decent text editor should make email-style quoting easy. For -example, with BBEdit, you can make a selection and choose Increase -Quote Level from the Text menu.</p> - -<h3 id="list">Lists</h3> - -<p>Markdown supports ordered (numbered) and unordered (bulleted) lists.</p> - -<p>Unordered lists use asterisks, pluses, and hyphens -- interchangably --- as list markers:</p> - -<pre><code>* Red -* Green -* Blue -</code></pre> - -<p>is equivalent to:</p> - -<pre><code>+ Red -+ Green -+ Blue -</code></pre> - -<p>and:</p> - -<pre><code>- Red -- Green -- Blue -</code></pre> - -<p>Ordered lists use numbers followed by periods:</p> - -<pre><code>1. Bird -2. McHale -3. Parish -</code></pre> - -<p>It's important to note that the actual numbers you use to mark the -list have no effect on the HTML output Markdown produces. The HTML -Markdown produces from the above list is:</p> - -<pre><code><ol> -<li>Bird</li> -<li>McHale</li> -<li>Parish</li> -</ol> -</code></pre> - -<p>If you instead wrote the list in Markdown like this:</p> - -<pre><code>1. Bird -1. McHale -1. Parish -</code></pre> - -<p>or even:</p> - -<pre><code>3. Bird -1. McHale -8. Parish -</code></pre> - -<p>you'd get the exact same HTML output. The point is, if you want to, -you can use ordinal numbers in your ordered Markdown lists, so that -the numbers in your source match the numbers in your published HTML. -But if you want to be lazy, you don't have to.</p> - -<p>If you do use lazy list numbering, however, you should still start the -list with the number 1. At some point in the future, Markdown may support -starting ordered lists at an arbitrary number.</p> - -<p>List markers typically start at the left margin, but may be indented by -up to three spaces. List markers must be followed by one or more spaces -or a tab.</p> - -<p>To make lists look nice, you can wrap items with hanging indents:</p> - -<pre><code>* Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. - Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. Vestibulum enim wisi, - viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. -* Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. - Suspendisse id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. -</code></pre> - -<p>But if you want to be lazy, you don't have to:</p> - -<pre><code>* Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. -Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. Vestibulum enim wisi, -viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. -* Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. -Suspendisse id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. -</code></pre> - -<p>If list items are separated by blank lines, Markdown will wrap the -items in <code><p></code> tags in the HTML output. For example, this input:</p> - -<pre><code>* Bird -* Magic -</code></pre> - -<p>will turn into:</p> - -<pre><code><ul> -<li>Bird</li> -<li>Magic</li> -</ul> -</code></pre> - -<p>But this:</p> - -<pre><code>* Bird - -* Magic -</code></pre> - -<p>will turn into:</p> - -<pre><code><ul> -<li><p>Bird</p></li> -<li><p>Magic</p></li> -</ul> -</code></pre> - -<p>List items may consist of multiple paragraphs. Each subsequent -paragraph in a list item must be intended by either 4 spaces -or one tab:</p> - -<pre><code>1. This is a list item with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor - sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit - mi posuere lectus. - - Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet - vitae, risus. Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum - sit amet velit. - -2. Suspendisse id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. -</code></pre> - -<p>It looks nice if you indent every line of the subsequent -paragraphs, but here again, Markdown will allow you to be -lazy:</p> - -<pre><code>* This is a list item with two paragraphs. - - This is the second paragraph in the list item. You're -only required to indent the first line. Lorem ipsum dolor -sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. - -* Another item in the same list. -</code></pre> - -<p>To put a blockquote within a list item, the blockquote's <code>></code> -delimiters need to be indented:</p> - -<pre><code>* A list item with a blockquote: - - > This is a blockquote - > inside a list item. -</code></pre> - -<p>To put a code block within a list item, the code block needs -to be indented <em>twice</em> -- 8 spaces or two tabs:</p> - -<pre><code>* A list item with a code block: - - <code goes here> -</code></pre> - -<p>It's worth noting that it's possible to trigger an ordered list by -accident, by writing something like this:</p> - -<pre><code>1986. What a great season. -</code></pre> - -<p>In other words, a <em>number-period-space</em> sequence at the beginning of a -line. To avoid this, you can backslash-escape the period:</p> - -<pre><code>1986\. What a great season. -</code></pre> - -<h3 id="precode">Code Blocks</h3> - -<p>Pre-formatted code blocks are used for writing about programming or -markup source code. Rather than forming normal paragraphs, the lines -of a code block are interpreted literally. Markdown wraps a code block -in both <code><pre></code> and <code><code></code> tags.</p> - -<p>To produce a code block in Markdown, simply indent every line of the -block by at least 4 spaces or 1 tab. For example, given this input:</p> - -<pre><code>This is a normal paragraph: - - This is a code block. -</code></pre> - -<p>Markdown will generate:</p> - -<pre><code><p>This is a normal paragraph:</p> - -<pre><code>This is a code block. -</code></pre> -</code></pre> - -<p>One level of indentation -- 4 spaces or 1 tab -- is removed from each -line of the code block. For example, this:</p> - -<pre><code>Here is an example of AppleScript: - - tell application "Foo" - beep - end tell -</code></pre> - -<p>will turn into:</p> - -<pre><code><p>Here is an example of AppleScript:</p> - -<pre><code>tell application "Foo" - beep -end tell -</code></pre> -</code></pre> - -<p>A code block continues until it reaches a line that is not indented -(or the end of the article).</p> - -<p>Within a code block, ampersands (<code>&</code>) and angle brackets (<code><</code> and <code>></code>) -are automatically converted into HTML entities. This makes it very -easy to include example HTML source code using Markdown -- just paste -it and indent it, and Markdown will handle the hassle of encoding the -ampersands and angle brackets. For example, this:</p> - -<pre><code> <div class="footer"> - &copy; 2004 Foo Corporation - </div> -</code></pre> - -<p>will turn into:</p> - -<pre><code><pre><code>&lt;div class="footer"&gt; - &amp;copy; 2004 Foo Corporation -&lt;/div&gt; -</code></pre> -</code></pre> - -<p>Regular Markdown syntax is not processed within code blocks. E.g., -asterisks are just literal asterisks within a code block. This means -it's also easy to use Markdown to write about Markdown's own syntax.</p> - -<h3 id="hr">Horizontal Rules</h3> - -<p>You can produce a horizontal rule tag (<code><hr /></code>) by placing three or -more hyphens, asterisks, or underscores on a line by themselves. If you -wish, you may use spaces between the hyphens or asterisks. Each of the -following lines will produce a horizontal rule:</p> - -<pre><code>* * * - -*** - -***** - -- - - - ---------------------------------------- - -_ _ _ -</code></pre> - -<hr> - -<h2 id="span">Span Elements</h2> - -<h3 id="link">Links</h3> - -<p>Markdown supports two style of links: <em>inline</em> and <em>reference</em>.</p> - -<p>In both styles, the link text is delimited by [square brackets].</p> - -<p>To create an inline link, use a set of regular parentheses immediately -after the link text's closing square bracket. Inside the parentheses, -put the URL where you want the link to point, along with an <em>optional</em> -title for the link, surrounded in quotes. For example:</p> - -<pre><code>This is [an example](http://example.com/ "Title") inline link. - -[This link](http://example.net/) has no title attribute. -</code></pre> - -<p>Will produce:</p> - -<pre><code><p>This is <a href="http://example.com/" title="Title"> -an example</a> inline link.</p> - -<p><a href="http://example.net/">This link</a> has no -title attribute.</p> -</code></pre> - -<p>If you're referring to a local resource on the same server, you can -use relative paths:</p> - -<pre><code>See my [About](/about/) page for details. -</code></pre> - -<p>Reference-style links use a second set of square brackets, inside -which you place a label of your choosing to identify the link:</p> - -<pre><code>This is [an example][id] reference-style link. -</code></pre> - -<p>You can optionally use a space to separate the sets of brackets:</p> - -<pre><code>This is [an example] [id] reference-style link. -</code></pre> - -<p>Then, anywhere in the document, you define your link label like this, -on a line by itself:</p> - -<pre><code>[id]: http://example.com/ "Optional Title Here" -</code></pre> - -<p>That is:</p> - -<ul> -<li> Square brackets containing the link identifier (optionally -indented from the left margin using up to three spaces);</li> -<li> followed by a colon;</li> -<li> followed by one or more spaces (or tabs);</li> -<li> followed by the URL for the link;</li> -<li> optionally followed by a title attribute for the link, enclosed -in double or single quotes.</li> -</ul> - -<p>The link URL may, optionally, be surrounded by angle brackets:</p> - -<pre><code>[id]: <http://example.com/> "Optional Title Here" -</code></pre> - -<p>You can put the title attribute on the next line and use extra spaces -or tabs for padding, which tends to look better with longer URLs:</p> - -<pre><code>[id]: http://example.com/longish/path/to/resource/here - "Optional Title Here" -</code></pre> - -<p>Link definitions are only used for creating links during Markdown -processing, and are stripped from your document in the HTML output.</p> - -<p>Link definition names may constist of letters, numbers, spaces, and punctuation -- but they are <em>not</em> case sensitive. E.g. these two links:</p> - -<pre><code>[link text][a] -[link text][A] -</code></pre> - -<p>are equivalent.</p> - -<p>The <em>implicit link name</em> shortcut allows you to omit the name of the -link, in which case the link text itself is used as the name. -Just use an empty set of square brackets -- e.g., to link the word -"Google" to the google.com web site, you could simply write:</p> - -<pre><code>[Google][] -</code></pre> - -<p>And then define the link:</p> - -<pre><code>[Google]: http://google.com/ -</code></pre> - -<p>Because link names may contain spaces, this shortcut even works for -multiple words in the link text:</p> - -<pre><code>Visit [Daring Fireball][] for more information. -</code></pre> - -<p>And then define the link:</p> - -<pre><code>[Daring Fireball]: http://daringfireball.net/ -</code></pre> - -<p>Link definitions can be placed anywhere in your Markdown document. I -tend to put them immediately after each paragraph in which they're -used, but if you want, you can put them all at the end of your -document, sort of like footnotes.</p> - -<p>Here's an example of reference links in action:</p> - -<pre><code>I get 10 times more traffic from [Google] [1] than from -[Yahoo] [2] or [MSN] [3]. - - [1]: http://google.com/ "Google" - [2]: http://search.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Search" - [3]: http://search.msn.com/ "MSN Search" -</code></pre> - -<p>Using the implicit link name shortcut, you could instead write:</p> - -<pre><code>I get 10 times more traffic from [Google][] than from -[Yahoo][] or [MSN][]. - - [google]: http://google.com/ "Google" - [yahoo]: http://search.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Search" - [msn]: http://search.msn.com/ "MSN Search" -</code></pre> - -<p>Both of the above examples will produce the following HTML output:</p> - -<pre><code><p>I get 10 times more traffic from <a href="http://google.com/" -title="Google">Google</a> than from -<a href="http://search.yahoo.com/" title="Yahoo Search">Yahoo</a> -or <a href="http://search.msn.com/" title="MSN Search">MSN</a>.</p> -</code></pre> - -<p>For comparison, here is the same paragraph written using -Markdown's inline link style:</p> - -<pre><code>I get 10 times more traffic from [Google](http://google.com/ "Google") -than from [Yahoo](http://search.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Search") or -[MSN](http://search.msn.com/ "MSN Search"). -</code></pre> - -<p>The point of reference-style links is not that they're easier to -write. The point is that with reference-style links, your document -source is vastly more readable. Compare the above examples: using -reference-style links, the paragraph itself is only 81 characters -long; with inline-style links, it's 176 characters; and as raw HTML, -it's 234 characters. In the raw HTML, there's more markup than there -is text.</p> - -<p>With Markdown's reference-style links, a source document much more -closely resembles the final output, as rendered in a browser. By -allowing you to move the markup-related metadata out of the paragraph, -you can add links without interrupting the narrative flow of your -prose.</p> - -<h3 id="em">Emphasis</h3> - -<p>Markdown treats asterisks (<code>*</code>) and underscores (<code>_</code>) as indicators of -emphasis. Text wrapped with one <code>*</code> or <code>_</code> will be wrapped with an -HTML <code><em></code> tag; double <code>*</code>'s or <code>_</code>'s will be wrapped with an HTML -<code><strong></code> tag. E.g., this input:</p> - -<pre><code>*single asterisks* - -_single underscores_ - -**double asterisks** - -__double underscores__ -</code></pre> - -<p>will produce:</p> - -<pre><code><em>single asterisks</em> - -<em>single underscores</em> - -<strong>double asterisks</strong> - -<strong>double underscores</strong> -</code></pre> - -<p>You can use whichever style you prefer; the lone restriction is that -the same character must be used to open and close an emphasis span.</p> - -<p>Emphasis can be used in the middle of a word:</p> - -<pre><code>un*fucking*believable -</code></pre> - -<p>But if you surround an <code>*</code> or <code>_</code> with spaces, it'll be treated as a -literal asterisk or underscore.</p> - -<p>To produce a literal asterisk or underscore at a position where it -would otherwise be used as an emphasis delimiter, you can backslash -escape it:</p> - -<pre><code>\*this text is surrounded by literal asterisks\* -</code></pre> - -<h3 id="code">Code</h3> - -<p>To indicate a span of code, wrap it with backtick quotes (<code>`</code>). -Unlike a pre-formatted code block, a code span indicates code within a -normal paragraph. For example:</p> - -<pre><code>Use the `printf()` function. -</code></pre> - -<p>will produce:</p> - -<pre><code><p>Use the <code>printf()</code> function.</p> -</code></pre> - -<p>To include a literal backtick character within a code span, you can use -multiple backticks as the opening and closing delimiters:</p> - -<pre><code>``There is a literal backtick (`) here.`` -</code></pre> - -<p>which will produce this:</p> - -<pre><code><p><code>There is a literal backtick (`) here.</code></p> -</code></pre> - -<p>The backtick delimiters surrounding a code span may include spaces -- -one after the opening, one before the closing. This allows you to place -literal backtick characters at the beginning or end of a code span:</p> - -<pre><code>A single backtick in a code span: `` ` `` - -A backtick-delimited string in a code span: `` `foo` `` -</code></pre> - -<p>will produce:</p> - -<pre><code><p>A single backtick in a code span: <code>`</code></p> - -<p>A backtick-delimited string in a code span: <code>`foo`</code></p> -</code></pre> - -<p>With a code span, ampersands and angle brackets are encoded as HTML -entities automatically, which makes it easy to include example HTML -tags. Markdown will turn this:</p> - -<pre><code>Please don't use any `<blink>` tags. -</code></pre> - -<p>into:</p> - -<pre><code><p>Please don't use any <code>&lt;blink&gt;</code> tags.</p> -</code></pre> - -<p>You can write this:</p> - -<pre><code>`&#8212;` is the decimal-encoded equivalent of `&mdash;`. -</code></pre> - -<p>to produce:</p> - -<pre><code><p><code>&amp;#8212;</code> is the decimal-encoded -equivalent of <code>&amp;mdash;</code>.</p> -</code></pre> - -<h3 id="img">Images</h3> - -<p>Admittedly, it's fairly difficult to devise a "natural" syntax for -placing images into a plain text document format.</p> - -<p>Markdown uses an image syntax that is intended to resemble the syntax -for links, allowing for two styles: <em>inline</em> and <em>reference</em>.</p> - -<p>Inline image syntax looks like this:</p> - -<pre><code>![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg) - -![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg "Optional title") -</code></pre> - -<p>That is:</p> - -<ul> -<li> An exclamation mark: <code>!</code>;</li> -<li> followed by a set of square brackets, containing the <code>alt</code> -attribute text for the image;</li> -<li> followed by a set of parentheses, containing the URL or path to -the image, and an optional <code>title</code> attribute enclosed in double -or single quotes.</li> -</ul> - -<p>Reference-style image syntax looks like this:</p> - -<pre><code>![Alt text][id] -</code></pre> - -<p>Where "id" is the name of a defined image reference. Image references -are defined using syntax identical to link references:</p> - -<pre><code>[id]: url/to/image "Optional title attribute" -</code></pre> - -<p>As of this writing, Markdown has no syntax for specifying the -dimensions of an image; if this is important to you, you can simply -use regular HTML <code><img></code> tags.</p> - -<hr> - -<h2 id="misc">Miscellaneous</h2> - -<h3 id="autolink">Automatic Links</h3> - -<p>Markdown supports a shortcut style for creating "automatic" links for URLs and email addresses: simply surround the URL or email address with angle brackets. What this means is that if you want to show the actual text of a URL or email address, and also have it be a clickable link, you can do this:</p> - -<pre><code><http://example.com/> -</code></pre> - -<p>Markdown will turn this into:</p> - -<pre><code><a href="http://example.com/">http://example.com/</a> -</code></pre> - -<p>Automatic links for email addresses work similarly, except that -Markdown will also perform a bit of randomized decimal and hex -entity-encoding to help obscure your address from address-harvesting -spambots. For example, Markdown will turn this:</p> - -<pre><code><address@example.com> -</code></pre> - -<p>into something like this:</p> - -<pre><code><a href="&#x6D;&#x61;i&#x6C;&#x74;&#x6F;:&#x61;&#x64;&#x64;&#x72;&#x65; -&#115;&#115;&#64;&#101;&#120;&#x61;&#109;&#x70;&#x6C;e&#x2E;&#99;&#111; -&#109;">&#x61;&#x64;&#x64;&#x72;&#x65;&#115;&#115;&#64;&#101;&#120;&#x61; -&#109;&#x70;&#x6C;e&#x2E;&#99;&#111;&#109;</a> -</code></pre> - -<p>which will render in a browser as a clickable link to "address@example.com".</p> - -<p>(This sort of entity-encoding trick will indeed fool many, if not -most, address-harvesting bots, but it definitely won't fool all of -them. It's better than nothing, but an address published in this way -will probably eventually start receiving spam.)</p> - -<h3 id="backslash">Backslash Escapes</h3> - -<p>Markdown allows you to use backslash escapes to generate literal -characters which would otherwise have special meaning in Markdown's -formatting syntax. For example, if you wanted to surround a word with -literal asterisks (instead of an HTML <code><em></code> tag), you can backslashes -before the asterisks, like this:</p> - -<pre><code>\*literal asterisks\* -</code></pre> - -<p>Markdown provides backslash escapes for the following characters:</p> - -<pre><code>\ backslash -` backtick -* asterisk -_ underscore -{} curly braces -[] square brackets -() parentheses -# hash mark -+ plus sign -- minus sign (hyphen) -. dot -! exclamation mark -</code></pre>
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+<blockquote> +<p>foo</p> +<blockquote> +<p>bar</p> +</blockquote> +<p>foo</p> +</blockquote>
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-<blockquote> -<p>foo</p> -<blockquote> -<p>bar</p> -</blockquote> -<p>foo</p> -</blockquote>
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+<h2>Unordered</h2> + +<p>Asterisks tight:</p> + +<ul> +<li>asterisk 1</li> +<li>asterisk 2</li> +<li>asterisk 3</li> +</ul> + +<p>Asterisks loose:</p> + +<ul> +<li><p>asterisk 1</p></li> +<li><p>asterisk 2</p></li> +<li><p>asterisk 3</p></li> +</ul> + +<hr> + +<p>Pluses tight:</p> + +<ul> +<li>Plus 1</li> +<li>Plus 2</li> +<li>Plus 3</li> +</ul> + +<p>Pluses loose:</p> + +<ul> +<li><p>Plus 1</p></li> +<li><p>Plus 2</p></li> +<li><p>Plus 3</p></li> +</ul> + +<hr> + +<p>Minuses tight:</p> + +<ul> +<li>Minus 1</li> +<li>Minus 2</li> +<li>Minus 3</li> +</ul> + +<p>Minuses loose:</p> + +<ul> +<li><p>Minus 1</p></li> +<li><p>Minus 2</p></li> +<li><p>Minus 3</p></li> +</ul> + +<h2>Ordered</h2> + +<p>Tight:</p> + +<ol> +<li>First</li> +<li>Second</li> +<li>Third</li> +</ol> + +<p>and:</p> + +<ol> +<li>One</li> +<li>Two</li> +<li>Three</li> +</ol> + +<p>Loose using tabs:</p> + +<ol> +<li><p>First</p></li> +<li><p>Second</p></li> +<li><p>Third</p></li> +</ol> + +<p>and using spaces:</p> + +<ol> +<li><p>One</p></li> +<li><p>Two</p></li> +<li><p>Three</p></li> +</ol> + +<p>Multiple paragraphs:</p> + +<ol> +<li><p>Item 1, graf one.</p> + +<p>Item 2. graf two. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's +back.</p></li> +<li><p>Item 2.</p></li> +<li><p>Item 3.</p></li> +</ol> + +<h2>Nested</h2> + +<ul> +<li>Tab + +<ul> +<li>Tab + +<ul> +<li>Tab</li> +</ul></li> +</ul></li> +</ul> + +<p>Here's another:</p> + +<ol> +<li>First</li> +<li>Second: + +<ul> +<li>Fee</li> +<li>Fie</li> +<li>Foe</li> +</ul></li> +<li>Third</li> +</ol> + +<p>Same thing but with paragraphs:</p> + +<ol> +<li><p>First</p></li> +<li><p>Second:</p> + +<ul> +<li>Fee</li> +<li>Fie</li> +<li>Foe</li> +</ul></li> +<li><p>Third</p></li> +</ol> + +<p>This was an error in Markdown 1.0.1:</p> + +<ul> +<li><p>this</p> + +<ul> +<li>sub</li> +</ul> + +<p>that</p></li> +</ul>
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-<h2>Unordered</h2> - -<p>Asterisks tight:</p> - -<ul> -<li> asterisk 1</li> -<li> asterisk 2</li> -<li> asterisk 3</li> -</ul> - -<p>Asterisks loose:</p> - -<ul> -<li><p>asterisk 1</p></li> -<li><p>asterisk 2</p></li> -<li><p>asterisk 3</p></li> -</ul> - -<hr> - -<p>Pluses tight:</p> - -<ul> -<li> Plus 1</li> -<li> Plus 2</li> -<li> Plus 3</li> -</ul> - -<p>Pluses loose:</p> - -<ul> -<li><p>Plus 1</p></li> -<li><p>Plus 2</p></li> -<li><p>Plus 3</p></li> -</ul> - -<hr> - -<p>Minuses tight:</p> - -<ul> -<li> Minus 1</li> -<li> Minus 2</li> -<li> Minus 3</li> -</ul> - -<p>Minuses loose:</p> - -<ul> -<li><p>Minus 1</p></li> -<li><p>Minus 2</p></li> -<li><p>Minus 3</p></li> -</ul> - -<h2>Ordered</h2> - -<p>Tight:</p> - -<ol> -<li> First</li> -<li> Second</li> -<li> Third</li> -</ol> - -<p>and:</p> - -<ol> -<li>One</li> -<li>Two</li> -<li>Three</li> -</ol> - -<p>Loose using tabs:</p> - -<ol> -<li><p>First</p></li> -<li><p>Second</p></li> -<li><p>Third</p></li> -</ol> - -<p>and using spaces:</p> - -<ol> -<li><p>One</p></li> -<li><p>Two</p></li> -<li><p>Three</p></li> -</ol> - -<p>Multiple paragraphs:</p> - -<ol> -<li><p>Item 1, graf one.</p> - -<p>Item 2. graf two. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's -back.</p></li> -<li><p>Item 2.</p></li> -<li><p>Item 3.</p></li> -</ol> - -<h2>Nested</h2> - -<ul> -<li> Tab - -<ul> -<li> Tab - -<ul> -<li> Tab</li> -</ul></li> -</ul></li> -</ul> - -<p>Here's another:</p> - -<ol> -<li>First</li> -<li>Second: - -<ul> -<li>Fee</li> -<li>Fie</li> -<li>Foe</li> -</ul></li> -<li>Third</li> -</ol> - -<p>Same thing but with paragraphs:</p> - -<ol> -<li><p>First</p></li> -<li><p>Second:</p> - -<ul> -<li>Fee</li> -<li>Fie</li> -<li>Foe</li> -</ul></li> -<li><p>Third</p></li> -</ol> - -<p>This was an error in Markdown 1.0.1:</p> - -<ul> -<li><p>this</p> - -<ul> -<li> sub</li> -</ul> - -<p>that</p></li> -</ul>
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+<p><strong><em>This is strong and em.</em></strong></p> + +<p>So is <strong><em>this</em></strong> word.</p> + +<p><strong><em>This is strong and em.</em></strong></p> + +<p>So is <strong><em>this</em></strong> word.</p>
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-<p><strong><em>This is strong and em.</em></strong></p> - -<p>So is <strong><em>this</em></strong> word.</p> - -<p><strong><em>This is strong and em.</em></strong></p> - -<p>So is <strong><em>this</em></strong> word.</p>
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+<ul> +<li><p>this is a list item +indented with tabs</p></li> +<li><p>this is a list item +indented with spaces</p></li> +</ul> + +<p>Code:</p> + +<pre><code>this code block is indented by one tab +</code></pre> + +<p>And:</p> + +<pre><code> this code block is indented by two tabs +</code></pre> + +<p>And:</p> + +<pre><code>+ this is an example list item + indented with tabs + ++ this is an example list item + indented with spaces +</code></pre>
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-<ul> -<li><p>this is a list item -indented with tabs</p></li> -<li><p>this is a list item -indented with spaces</p></li> -</ul> - -<p>Code:</p> - -<pre><code>this code block is indented by one tab -</code></pre> - -<p>And:</p> - -<pre><code> this code block is indented by two tabs -</code></pre> - -<p>And:</p> - -<pre><code>+ this is an example list item - indented with tabs - -+ this is an example list item - indented with spaces -</code></pre>
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+<blockquote> +<p>A list within a blockquote:</p> + +<ul> +<li>asterisk 1</li> +<li>asterisk 2</li> +<li>asterisk 3</li> +</ul> +</blockquote>
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-<blockquote> -<p>A list within a blockquote:</p> - -<ul> -<li>asterisk 1</li> -<li>asterisk 2</li> -<li>asterisk 3</li> -</ul> -</blockquote>
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ if err != nil {
t.Errorf("Couldn't open '%s', error: %v\n", fn, err) continue } - fn = filepath.Join("upskirtref", basename+"_upskirt_ref.html") + fn = filepath.Join("upskirtref", basename+".html") expecteddata, err := ioutil.ReadFile(fn) if err != nil { t.Errorf("Couldn't open '%s', error: %v\n", fn, err)