(Edit this page to see how it is formatted.)
Markdown is a light-weight text formatting system. This page explains how to use it (and is an example in its own right). The definitive guide is at Daring Fireball - although the implementation here may not be completely up to scratch.
A paragraph is just a block of text, separated from other text by a blank line. It automatically collapses line breaks. (This all flows into one paragraph.)
For an explicit line-break, put two spaces
at the end of the line, like so.
Emphasised text (italic) is surrounded by asterisks like so, or underscores, and strongly emphasised (bold) text is surrounded by pairs of asterisks or underscores.
Headings look like this (for a major heading)
or this (for a sub-heading)
Blockquotes are email-styleâ
This is a blockquote.
And code is just indented, following a colon:
10 PRINT "You're a manus"
20 GOTO 10
Alternatively, code can be displayed inline with backticks, like echo "this";.
Links
External links look like Link Text or . Wiki links look like Help or A link to the Help page. You can also link Wikipedia like France or the C2 wiki like SmugErlangWeenies. Finally user pages can be linked like brehaut
You can link email addresses like , but it’s not advised — they’ll be given some spam protection, but it may not be strong enough.
Lists
- This is a list
-
with a number of items
- including a nested list
- which has two items
- and a final item
A numbered list:
- This is
- A numbered list
- It doesn’t matter what number you use.
Finally, a horizontal rule:
Anal Typography section
Unfortunately, this blog’s markdown filter is bork, bork, bork. Ignore the following section until things get more fix-ed.
Also, it should be clarified that “Anal Typography” is meant in the sense of “anal-retentive” attention to detail, not, in fact, typography of the anus.
An em-dash, which is the correct entity for separated blocks of text in a semi-parenthetical fashion, can be entered as three bog-standard hyphens, like –:
It was–at least, in his opinion–important to use correct typography.
An en-dash, suitable for signifying ranges, can be entered with two hyphens:
2000—2002 is a range of years.
Recent media-publication style guides have, I believe, replace the em-dash with an en-dash surrounded by spaces. That is:
The em-dash–a kind of parentheses-light, if you will–is considered somewhat archaic.
Has become:
The en-dash — which leaves slightly more breathing room than its broader cousin — has a certain elegance.
I believe that the processor has the two mixed up also.
Em-dash, literal followed by triple-hyphen: —, –
En-dash, literal followed by doubled-hyphen: –, —
