Markdown – An Introduction A brief introductory tutorial on Markdown. Markdown is a plain text format for writing structured documents, based on conventions used for indicating formatting in email and usenet posts. It is a light weight and easy to use syntax for styling. @VenkiNarayanan
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Markdown – An
IntroductionA brief introductory tutorial on Markdown. Markdown is a plain textformat for writing structured documents, based on conventions used forindicating formatting in email and usenet posts. It is a light weight and easyto use syntax for styling.
@VenkiNarayanan
What is Markdown?
• Markdown is a way to style text on the web.
• It helps you to control the display of the document by formatting words as
bold or italic etc.
• Markdown is just a regular text with few non-alphabetic characters thrown
in.
• Markdown text can be converted to HTML and other formats.
Styling Text
*This text will be Bold*
**This text will be Italic**
This text will be Bold
This text will be Italic
In the above example we are
marking text as italic using **
and bold using *
• Use “*” or “-” to mark text as italic.
• Use “**” to mark text as bold.
• Use “~~” to strikethrough text.
Ordered Lists
• You define ordered lists in Markdown by prefixing the number.
• To define a sub list within the main list, then start sub list by putting two
spaces.
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
1. Sub item 1
2. Sub item 2
Unordered Lists
• For unordered bulleted lists, start the line with star “*” or dash “-”.
• To define a sub list within the main list, then start sub list by putting two
spaces, similar to ordered lists..
* Item 1
* Item 2
* Item 3
• Item 1
• Item 2
• Item 3
Links and Images
• You can insert images using the following format: ![Alt Text](url)