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| -Markdown: Syntax
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| -================
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| -
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| -<ul id="ProjectSubmenu">
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| - <li><a href="/projects/markdown/" title="Markdown Project Page">Main</a></li>
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| - <li><a href="/projects/markdown/basics" title="Markdown Basics">Basics</a></li>
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| - <li><a class="selected" title="Markdown Syntax Documentation">Syntax</a></li>
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| - <li><a href="/projects/markdown/license" title="Pricing and License Information">License</a></li>
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| - <li><a href="/projects/markdown/dingus" title="Online Markdown Web Form">Dingus</a></li>
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| -</ul>
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| -
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| -
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| -* [Overview](#overview)
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| - * [Philosophy](#philosophy)
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| - * [Inline HTML](#html)
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| - * [Automatic Escaping for Special Characters](#autoescape)
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| -* [Block Elements](#block)
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| - * [Paragraphs and Line Breaks](#p)
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| - * [Headers](#header)
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| - * [Blockquotes](#blockquote)
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| - * [Lists](#list)
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| - * [Code Blocks](#precode)
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| - * [Horizontal Rules](#hr)
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| -* [Span Elements](#span)
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| - * [Links](#link)
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| - * [Emphasis](#em)
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| - * [Code](#code)
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| - * [Images](#img)
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| -* [Miscellaneous](#misc)
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| - * [Backslash Escapes](#backslash)
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| - * [Automatic Links](#autolink)
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| -
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| -
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| -**Note:** This document is itself written using Markdown; you
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| -can [see the source for it by adding '.text' to the URL][src].
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| -
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| - [src]: /projects/markdown/syntax.text
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| -
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| -* * *
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| -
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| -<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2>
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| -
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| -<h3 id="philosophy">Philosophy</h3>
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| -
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| -Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible.
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| -
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| -Readability, however, is emphasized above all else. A Markdown-formatted
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| -document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking
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| -like it's been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While
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| -Markdown's syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML
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| -filters -- including [Setext] [1], [atx] [2], [Textile] [3], [reStructuredText] [4],
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| -[Grutatext] [5], and [EtText] [6] -- the single biggest source of
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| -inspiration for Markdown's syntax is the format of plain text email.
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| -
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| - [1]: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/mirror/setext.html
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| - [2]: http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/atx/
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| - [3]: http://textism.com/tools/textile/
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| - [4]: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
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| - [5]: http://www.triptico.com/software/grutatxt.html
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| - [6]: http://ettext.taint.org/doc/
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| -
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| -To this end, Markdown's syntax is comprised entirely of punctuation
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| -characters, which punctuation characters have been carefully chosen so
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| -as to look like what they mean. E.g., asterisks around a word actually
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| -look like \*emphasis\*. Markdown lists look like, well, lists. Even
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| -blockquotes look like quoted passages of text, assuming you've ever
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| -used email.
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| -
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| -
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| -
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| -<h3 id="html">Inline HTML</h3>
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| -
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| -Markdown's syntax is intended for one purpose: to be used as a
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| -format for *writing* for the web.
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| -
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| -Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it. Its
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| -syntax is very small, corresponding only to a very small subset of
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| -HTML tags. The idea is *not* to create a syntax that makes it easier
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| -to insert HTML tags. In my opinion, HTML tags are already easy to
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| -insert. The idea for Markdown is to make it easy to read, write, and
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| -edit prose. HTML is a *publishing* format; Markdown is a *writing*
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| -format. Thus, Markdown's formatting syntax only addresses issues that
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| -can be conveyed in plain text.
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| -
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| -For any markup that is not covered by Markdown's syntax, you simply
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| -use HTML itself. There's no need to preface it or delimit it to
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| -indicate that you're switching from Markdown to HTML; you just use
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| -the tags.
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| -
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| -The only restrictions are that block-level HTML elements -- e.g. `<div>`,
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| -`<table>`, `<pre>`, `<p>`, etc. -- must be separated from surrounding
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| -content by blank lines, and the start and end tags of the block should
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| -not be indented with tabs or spaces. Markdown is smart enough not
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| -to add extra (unwanted) `<p>` tags around HTML block-level tags.
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| -
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| -For example, to add an HTML table to a Markdown article:
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| -
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| - This is a regular paragraph.
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| -
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| - <table>
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| - <tr>
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| - <td>Foo</td>
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| - </tr>
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| - </table>
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| -
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| - This is another regular paragraph.
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| -
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| -Note that Markdown formatting syntax is not processed within block-level
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| -HTML tags. E.g., you can't use Markdown-style `*emphasis*` inside an
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| -HTML block.
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| -
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| -Span-level HTML tags -- e.g. `<span>`, `<cite>`, or `<del>` -- can be
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| -used anywhere in a Markdown paragraph, list item, or header. If you
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| -want, you can even use HTML tags instead of Markdown formatting; e.g. if
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| -you'd prefer to use HTML `<a>` or `<img>` tags instead of Markdown's
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| -link or image syntax, go right ahead.
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| -
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| -Unlike block-level HTML tags, Markdown syntax *is* processed within
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| -span-level tags.
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| -
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| -<h3 id="autoescape">Automatic Escaping for Special Characters</h3>
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| -
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| -In HTML, there are two characters that demand special treatment: `<`
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| -and `&`. Left angle brackets are used to start tags; ampersands are
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| -used to denote HTML entities. If you want to use them as literal
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| -characters, you must escape them as entities, e.g. `<`, and
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| -`&`.
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| -Ampersands in particular are bedeviling for web writers. If you want to
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| -write about 'AT&T', you need to write '`AT&T`'. You even need to
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| -escape ampersands within URLs. Thus, if you want to link to:
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| - http://images.google.com/images?num=30&q=larry+bird
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| -you need to encode the URL as:
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| - http://images.google.com/images?num=30&q=larry+bird
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| -in your anchor tag `href` attribute. Needless to say, this is easy to
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| -forget, and is probably the single most common source of HTML validation
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| -errors in otherwise well-marked-up web sites.
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| -
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| -Markdown allows you to use these characters naturally, taking care of
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| -all the necessary escaping for you. If you use an ampersand as part of
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| -an HTML entity, it remains unchanged; otherwise it will be translated
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| -into `&`.
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| -So, if you want to include a copyright symbol in your article, you can write:
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| - ©
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| -
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| -and Markdown will leave it alone. But if you write:
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| - AT&T
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| -Markdown will translate it to:
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| - AT&T
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| -
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| -Similarly, because Markdown supports [inline HTML](#html), if you use
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| -angle brackets as delimiters for HTML tags, Markdown will treat them as
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| -such. But if you write:
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| - 4 < 5
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| -Markdown will translate it to:
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| - 4 < 5
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| -However, inside Markdown code spans and blocks, angle brackets and
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| -ampersands are *always* encoded automatically. This makes it easy to use
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| -Markdown to write about HTML code. (As opposed to raw HTML, which is a
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| -terrible format for writing about HTML syntax, because every single `<`
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| -and `&` in your example code needs to be escaped.)
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| -* * *
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| -<h2 id="block">Block Elements</h2>
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| -<h3 id="p">Paragraphs and Line Breaks</h3>
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| -A paragraph is simply one or more consecutive lines of text, separated
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| -by one or more blank lines. (A blank line is any line that looks like a
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| -blank line -- a line containing nothing but spaces or tabs is considered
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| -blank.) Normal paragraphs should not be intended with spaces or tabs.
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| -The implication of the "one or more consecutive lines of text" rule is
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| -that Markdown supports "hard-wrapped" text paragraphs. This differs
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| -significantly from most other text-to-HTML formatters (including Movable
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| -Type's "Convert Line Breaks" option) which translate every line break
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| -character in a paragraph into a `<br />` tag.
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| -
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| -When you *do* want to insert a `<br />` break tag using Markdown, you
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| -end a line with two or more spaces, then type return.
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| -
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| -Yes, this takes a tad more effort to create a `<br />`, but a simplistic
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| -"every line break is a `<br />`" rule wouldn't work for Markdown.
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| -Markdown's email-style [blockquoting][bq] and multi-paragraph [list items][l]
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| -work best -- and look better -- when you format them with hard breaks.
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| - [bq]: #blockquote
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| - [l]: #list
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| -<h3 id="header">Headers</h3>
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| -
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| -Markdown supports two styles of headers, [Setext] [1] and [atx] [2].
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| -
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| -Setext-style headers are "underlined" using equal signs (for first-level
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| -headers) and dashes (for second-level headers). For example:
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| - This is an H1
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| - =============
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| -
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| - This is an H2
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| - -------------
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| -Any number of underlining `=`'s or `-`'s will work.
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| -
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| -Atx-style headers use 1-6 hash characters at the start of the line,
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| -corresponding to header levels 1-6. For example:
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| - # This is an H1
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| - ## This is an H2
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| - ###### This is an H6
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| -Optionally, you may "close" atx-style headers. This is purely
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| -cosmetic -- you can use this if you think it looks better. The
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| -closing hashes don't even need to match the number of hashes
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| -used to open the header. (The number of opening hashes
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| -determines the header level.) :
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| - # This is an H1 #
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| - ## This is an H2 ##
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| - ### This is an H3 ######
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| -<h3 id="blockquote">Blockquotes</h3>
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| -Markdown uses email-style `>` characters for blockquoting. If you're
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| -familiar with quoting passages of text in an email message, then you
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| -know how to create a blockquote in Markdown. It looks best if you hard
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| -wrap the text and put a `>` before every line:
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| -
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| - > This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
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| - > consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus.
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| - > Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus.
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| - >
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| - > Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. Suspendisse
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| - > id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing.
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| -
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| -Markdown allows you to be lazy and only put the `>` before the first
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| -line of a hard-wrapped paragraph:
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| - > This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
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| - consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus.
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| - Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus.
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| -
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| - > Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. Suspendisse
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| - id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing.
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| -Blockquotes can be nested (i.e. a blockquote-in-a-blockquote) by
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| -adding additional levels of `>`:
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| - > This is the first level of quoting.
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| - >
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| - > > This is nested blockquote.
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| - >
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| - > Back to the first level.
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| -Blockquotes can contain other Markdown elements, including headers, lists,
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| -and code blocks:
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| - > ## This is a header.
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| - > 1. This is the first list item.
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| - > 2. This is the second list item.
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| - > Here's some example code:
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| - >
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| - > return shell_exec("echo $input | $markdown_script");
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| -Any decent text editor should make email-style quoting easy. For
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| -example, with BBEdit, you can make a selection and choose Increase
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| -Quote Level from the Text menu.
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| -<h3 id="list">Lists</h3>
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| -Markdown supports ordered (numbered) and unordered (bulleted) lists.
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| -Unordered lists use asterisks, pluses, and hyphens -- interchangably
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| - * Red
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| - * Green
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| - * Blue
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| -is equivalent to:
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| - + Red
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| - + Green
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| - + Blue
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| -and:
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| - - Red
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| - - Green
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| - - Blue
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| -Ordered lists use numbers followed by periods:
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| - 1. Bird
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| - 2. McHale
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| - 3. Parish
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| -
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| -It's important to note that the actual numbers you use to mark the
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| -list have no effect on the HTML output Markdown produces. The HTML
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| -Markdown produces from the above list is:
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| - <ol>
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| - <li>Bird</li>
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| - <li>McHale</li>
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| - <li>Parish</li>
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| - </ol>
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| -If you instead wrote the list in Markdown like this:
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| - 1. Bird
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| - 1. McHale
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| - 1. Parish
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| -or even:
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| - 3. Bird
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| - 1. McHale
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| - 8. Parish
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| -you'd get the exact same HTML output. The point is, if you want to,
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| -the numbers in your source match the numbers in your published HTML.
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| -But if you want to be lazy, you don't have to.
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| -If you do use lazy list numbering, however, you should still start the
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| -list with the number 1. At some point in the future, Markdown may support
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| -starting ordered lists at an arbitrary number.
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| -List markers typically start at the left margin, but may be indented by
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| -up to three spaces. List markers must be followed by one or more spaces
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| -To make lists look nice, you can wrap items with hanging indents:
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| - * Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
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| - Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. Vestibulum enim wisi,
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| - viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus.
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| - * Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit.
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| - Suspendisse id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing.
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| -But if you want to be lazy, you don't have to:
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| - * Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
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| - Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. Vestibulum enim wisi,
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| - viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus.
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| - * Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit.
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| - Suspendisse id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing.
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| -If list items are separated by blank lines, Markdown will wrap the
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| -items in `<p>` tags in the HTML output. For example, this input:
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| - * Magic
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| -will turn into:
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| - <ul>
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| - <li>Bird</li>
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| - <li>Magic</li>
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| -But this:
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| - * Bird
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| - * Magic
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| - <ul>
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| -List items may consist of multiple paragraphs. Each subsequent
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| -paragraph in a list item must be intended by either 4 spaces
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| - Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet
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| - > inside a list item.
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| -To put a code block within a list item, the code block needs
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| -markup source code. Rather than forming normal paragraphs, the lines
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| -One level of indentation -- 4 spaces or 1 tab -- is removed from each
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| - Here is an example of AppleScript:
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| - tell application "Foo"
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| - beep
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| - end tell
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| -will turn into:
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| - <p>Here is an example of AppleScript:</p>
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| - <pre><code>tell application "Foo"
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| - end tell
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| - </code></pre>
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| -
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| -A code block continues until it reaches a line that is not indented
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| -(or the end of the article).
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| -
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| -Within a code block, ampersands (`&`) and angle brackets (`<` and `>`)
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| -are automatically converted into HTML entities. This makes it very
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| -easy to include example HTML source code using Markdown -- just paste
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| -it and indent it, and Markdown will handle the hassle of encoding the
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| -ampersands and angle brackets. For example, this:
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| - <div class="footer">
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| - </div>
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| - </code></pre>
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| -Regular Markdown syntax is not processed within code blocks. E.g.,
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| -asterisks are just literal asterisks within a code block. This means
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| -it's also easy to use Markdown to write about Markdown's own syntax.
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| -<h3 id="hr">Horizontal Rules</h3>
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| -You can produce a horizontal rule tag (`<hr>`) by placing three or
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| -Markdown supports two style of links: *inline* and *reference*.
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| -In both styles, the link text is delimited by [square brackets].
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| -To create an inline link, use a set of regular parentheses immediately
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| -after the link text's closing square bracket. Inside the parentheses,
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| -put the URL where you want the link to point, along with an *optional*
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| - an example</a> inline link.</p>
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| -If you're referring to a local resource on the same server, you can
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| - See my [About](/about/) page for details.
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| -Reference-style links use a second set of square brackets, inside
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| -which you place a label of your choosing to identify the link:
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| - This is [an example][id] reference-style link.
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| -You can optionally use a space to separate the sets of brackets:
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| - This is [an example] [id] reference-style link.
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| -Then, anywhere in the document, you define your link label like this,
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| - indented from the left margin using up to three spaces);
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| -* followed by one or more spaces (or tabs);
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| -* followed by the URL for the link;
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| -The link URL may, optionally, be surrounded by angle brackets:
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| -or tabs for padding, which tends to look better with longer URLs:
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| -Link definitions are only used for creating links during Markdown
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| -processing, and are stripped from your document in the HTML output.
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| -Link definition names may constist of letters, numbers, spaces, and punctuation -- but they are *not* case sensitive. E.g. these two links:
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| -are equivalent.
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| -The *implicit link name* shortcut allows you to omit the name of the
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| -link, in which case the link text itself is used as the name.
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| -Just use an empty set of square brackets -- e.g., to link the word
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| -"Google" to the google.com web site, you could simply write:
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| -Because link names may contain spaces, this shortcut even works for
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| - Visit [Daring Fireball][] for more information.
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| - [Daring Fireball]: http://daringfireball.net/
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| -Link definitions can be placed anywhere in your Markdown document. I
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| -tend to put them immediately after each paragraph in which they're
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| -used, but if you want, you can put them all at the end of your
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| -document, sort of like footnotes.
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| -Here's an example of reference links in action:
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| - [2]: http://search.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Search"
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| -Using the implicit link name shortcut, you could instead write:
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| - [Yahoo][] or [MSN][].
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| - [yahoo]: http://search.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Search"
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| - [msn]: http://search.msn.com/ "MSN Search"
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| - <p>I get 10 times more traffic from <a href="http://google.com/"
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| - <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/" title="Yahoo Search">Yahoo</a>
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| - or <a href="http://search.msn.com/" title="MSN Search">MSN</a>.</p>
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| -For comparison, here is the same paragraph written using
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| -Markdown's inline link style:
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| - I get 10 times more traffic from [Google](http://google.com/ "Google")
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| - than from [Yahoo](http://search.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Search") or
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| -The point of reference-style links is not that they're easier to
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| -write. The point is that with reference-style links, your document
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| -source is vastly more readable. Compare the above examples: using
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| -reference-style links, the paragraph itself is only 81 characters
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| -long; with inline-style links, it's 176 characters; and as raw HTML,
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| -With Markdown's reference-style links, a source document much more
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| -closely resembles the final output, as rendered in a browser. By
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| -allowing you to move the markup-related metadata out of the paragraph,
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| -<h3 id="em">Emphasis</h3>
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| -Markdown treats asterisks (`*`) and underscores (`_`) as indicators of
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| -HTML `<em>` tag; double `*`'s or `_`'s will be wrapped with an HTML
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| -You can use whichever style you prefer; the lone restriction is that
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| - un*fucking*believable
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| -But if you surround an `*` or `_` with spaces, it'll be treated as a
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| -To produce a literal asterisk or underscore at a position where it
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| -would otherwise be used as an emphasis delimiter, you can backslash
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| -To indicate a span of code, wrap it with backtick quotes (`` ` ``).
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| -Unlike a pre-formatted code block, a code span indicates code within a
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| -To include a literal backtick character within a code span, you can use
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| -which will produce this:
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| -The backtick delimiters surrounding a code span may include spaces --
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| -one after the opening, one before the closing. This allows you to place
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| -literal backtick characters at the beginning or end of a code span:
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| - A single backtick in a code span: `` ` ``
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| - A backtick-delimited string in a code span: `` `foo` ``
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| - <p>A single backtick in a code span: <code>`</code></p>
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| - <p>A backtick-delimited string in a code span: <code>`foo`</code></p>
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| -With a code span, ampersands and angle brackets are encoded as HTML
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| -entities automatically, which makes it easy to include example HTML
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| -tags. Markdown will turn this:
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| - Please don't use any `<blink>` tags.
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| -into:
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| - <p>Please don't use any <code><blink></code> tags.</p>
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| -You can write this:
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| - `—` is the decimal-encoded equivalent of `—`.
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| -to produce:
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| - <p><code>&#8212;</code> is the decimal-encoded
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| - equivalent of <code>&mdash;</code>.</p>
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| -Admittedly, it's fairly difficult to devise a "natural" syntax for
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| -placing images into a plain text document format.
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| -Markdown uses an image syntax that is intended to resemble the syntax
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| -for links, allowing for two styles: *inline* and *reference*.
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| -Inline image syntax looks like this:
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| -* An exclamation mark: `!`;
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| -* followed by a set of square brackets, containing the `alt`
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| -* followed by a set of parentheses, containing the URL or path to
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| - the image, and an optional `title` attribute enclosed in double
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| -Reference-style image syntax looks like this:
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| - ![Alt text][id]
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| -Where "id" is the name of a defined image reference. Image references
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| -are defined using syntax identical to link references:
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| - [id]: url/to/image "Optional title attribute"
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| -As of this writing, Markdown has no syntax for specifying the
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| -dimensions of an image; if this is important to you, you can simply
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| -<h2 id="misc">Miscellaneous</h2>
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| -<h3 id="autolink">Automatic Links</h3>
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| -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:
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| - <http://example.com/>
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| -Markdown will turn this into:
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| - <a href="http://example.com/">http://example.com/</a>
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| -Automatic links for email addresses work similarly, except that
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| -Markdown will also perform a bit of randomized decimal and hex
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| -entity-encoding to help obscure your address from address-harvesting
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| -spambots. For example, Markdown will turn this:
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| -which will render in a browser as a clickable link to "address@example.com".
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| -most, address-harvesting bots, but it definitely won't fool all of
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| -them. It's better than nothing, but an address published in this way
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| -<h3 id="backslash">Backslash Escapes</h3>
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| -Markdown allows you to use backslash escapes to generate literal
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| -characters which would otherwise have special meaning in Markdown's
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| -formatting syntax. For example, if you wanted to surround a word with
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| -literal asterisks (instead of an HTML `<em>` tag), you can backslashes
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| -before the asterisks, like this:
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| - \*literal asterisks\*
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| -Markdown provides backslash escapes for the following characters:
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