Markdown
Adapted from Adam Pritchard’s Markdown Cheatsheet, with changes and additions specific to our website.
#Contents
#Headers
## Section heading
### Subsection
#### Sub-subsection
##### Do you really need to go down this deep?
#Section heading
#Subsection
#Sub-subsection
#Do you really need to go down this deep?
#Emphasis
Emphasis, aka italics, with *asterisks* or _underscores_.
Strong emphasis, aka bold, with **asterisks** or __underscores__.
Combined emphasis with **asterisks and _underscores_**.
Strikethrough uses two tildes. ~~Scratch this.~~
Emphasis, aka italics, with asterisks or underscores.
Strong emphasis, aka bold, with asterisks or underscores.
Combined emphasis with asterisks and underscores.
Strikethrough uses two tildes. Scratch this.
#Lists
In this example, leading and trailing spaces are shown with with dots.
1. First ordered list item
2. Another item
⋅⋅* Unordered sub-list.
1. Actual numbers don’t matter, just that it’s a number
⋅⋅1. Ordered sub-list
4. And another item.
⋅⋅⋅You can have properly indented paragraphs within list items. Notice the blank line above, and the leading spaces (at least one, but we’ll use three here to also align the raw Markdown).
⋅⋅⋅To have a line break without a paragraph, you will need to use two trailing spaces.⋅⋅
⋅⋅⋅Note that this line is separate, but within the same paragraph.⋅⋅
⋅⋅⋅(This is contrary to the typical GFM line break behaviour, where trailing spaces are not required.)
* Unordered list can use asterisks
- Or minuses
+ Or pluses
- First ordered list item
- Another item
- Unordered sub-list.
- Actual numbers don’t matter, just that it’s a number
- Ordered sub-list
- And another item.
You can have properly indented paragraphs within list items. Notice the blank line above, and the leading spaces (at least one, but we’ll use three here to also align the raw Markdown).
To have a line break without a paragraph, you will need to use two trailing spaces. Note that this line is separate, but within the same paragraph.⋅⋅ (This is contrary to the typical GFM line break behaviour, where trailing spaces are not required.)
- Unordered list can use asterisks
- Or minuses
- Or pluses
#Links
Create a link to a page on the site like this: [[Orality]]
You can link to a page with your own text [[Orality | like this]].
Sometimes multiple pages might have the same name, if they have different parents, so you might want to specify a specific path, like [[/orality]]. Generally, you should use this with the pipe option to provide text for the link, [[/orality | like this]].
[I’m an external link](https://thefifthworld.com)
[I’m an external link with a title](https://thefifthworld.com “The Fifth World Homepage”)
URLs and URLs in angle brackets will automatically get turned into links.
https://thefifthworld.com or
Create a link to a page on the site like this: Orality
You can link to a page with your own text like this.
Sometimes multiple pages might have the same name, if they have different parents, so you might want to specify a specific path, like /orality. Generally, you should use this with the pipe option to provide text for the link, like this.
[I’m an external link with a title](https://thefifthworld.com “The Fifth World Homepage”)
URLs and URLs in angle brackets will automatically get turned into links. https://thefifthworld.com or https://thefifthworld.com
#Tables
Colons can be used to align columns.
| Tables | Are | Cool |
| ——————- |:——————-:| ——-:|
| col 3 is | right-aligned | $1600 |
| col 2 is | centered | $12 |
| zebra stripes | are neat | $1 |
There must be at least 3 dashes separating each header cell.
The outer pipes (|) are optional, and you don’t need to make the
raw Markdown line up prettily. You can also use inline Markdown.
Markdown | Less | Pretty
—- | —- | —-
*Still* | `renders` | **nicely**
1 | 2 | 3
Colons can be used to align columns.
| Tables | Are | Cool | | ——————- |:——————-:| ——-:| | col 3 is | right-aligned | $1600 | | col 2 is | centered | $12 | | zebra stripes | are neat | $1 |
There must be at least 3 dashes separating each header cell. The outer pipes (|) are optional, and you don’t need to make the raw Markdown line up prettily. You can also use inline Markdown.
Markdown | Less | Pretty
—- | —- | —-
Still | renders
| nicely
1 | 2 | 3
#Quotes
> Blockquotes are very handy in email to emulate reply text.
> This line is part of the same quote.
Quote break.
> This is a very long line that will still be quoted properly when it wraps. Oh boy let’s keep writing to make sure this is long enough to actually wrap for everyone. Oh, you can *put* **Markdown** into a blockquote.
Blockquotes are very handy in email to emulate reply text. This line is part of the same quote.
Quote break.
This is a very long line that will still be quoted properly when it wraps. Oh boy let’s keep writing to make sure this is long enough to actually wrap for everyone. Oh, you can put Markdown into a blockquote.
#Horizontal rules
Three or more…
—-
Hyphens
***
Asterisks
___
Underscores
Three or more…
—-
Hyphens
Asterisks
Underscores