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  1. data/Rakefile +73 -0
  2. data/bin/marudown +29 -0
  3. data/bin/maruku +176 -0
  4. data/bin/marutest +338 -0
  5. data/bin/marutex +31 -0
  6. data/docs/changelog.md +334 -0
  7. data/docs/div_syntax.md +36 -0
  8. data/docs/entity_test.md +23 -0
  9. data/docs/markdown_syntax.md +899 -0
  10. data/docs/maruku.md +346 -0
  11. data/docs/math.md +194 -0
  12. data/docs/other_stuff.md +51 -0
  13. data/docs/proposal.md +309 -0
  14. data/lib/maruku.rb +141 -0
  15. data/lib/maruku/attributes.rb +227 -0
  16. data/lib/maruku/defaults.rb +70 -0
  17. data/lib/maruku/errors_management.rb +92 -0
  18. data/lib/maruku/ext/div.rb +100 -0
  19. data/lib/maruku/ext/math.rb +41 -0
  20. data/lib/maruku/ext/math/elements.rb +27 -0
  21. data/lib/maruku/ext/math/latex_fix.rb +11 -0
  22. data/lib/maruku/ext/math/mathml_engines/blahtex.rb +104 -0
  23. data/lib/maruku/ext/math/mathml_engines/itex2mml.rb +29 -0
  24. data/lib/maruku/ext/math/mathml_engines/none.rb +20 -0
  25. data/lib/maruku/ext/math/mathml_engines/ritex.rb +24 -0
  26. data/lib/maruku/ext/math/parsing.rb +105 -0
  27. data/lib/maruku/ext/math/to_html.rb +170 -0
  28. data/lib/maruku/ext/math/to_latex.rb +22 -0
  29. data/lib/maruku/helpers.rb +260 -0
  30. data/lib/maruku/input/charsource.rb +326 -0
  31. data/lib/maruku/input/extensions.rb +69 -0
  32. data/lib/maruku/input/html_helper.rb +189 -0
  33. data/lib/maruku/input/linesource.rb +111 -0
  34. data/lib/maruku/input/parse_block.rb +613 -0
  35. data/lib/maruku/input/parse_doc.rb +227 -0
  36. data/lib/maruku/input/parse_span_better.rb +732 -0
  37. data/lib/maruku/input/rubypants.rb +225 -0
  38. data/lib/maruku/input/type_detection.rb +144 -0
  39. data/lib/maruku/input_textile2/t2_parser.rb +163 -0
  40. data/lib/maruku/maruku.rb +33 -0
  41. data/lib/maruku/output/s5/fancy.rb +756 -0
  42. data/lib/maruku/output/s5/to_s5.rb +125 -0
  43. data/lib/maruku/output/to_html.rb +971 -0
  44. data/lib/maruku/output/to_latex.rb +563 -0
  45. data/lib/maruku/output/to_latex_entities.rb +367 -0
  46. data/lib/maruku/output/to_latex_strings.rb +64 -0
  47. data/lib/maruku/output/to_markdown.rb +164 -0
  48. data/lib/maruku/output/to_s.rb +53 -0
  49. data/lib/maruku/string_utils.rb +191 -0
  50. data/lib/maruku/structures.rb +165 -0
  51. data/lib/maruku/structures_inspect.rb +87 -0
  52. data/lib/maruku/structures_iterators.rb +61 -0
  53. data/lib/maruku/tests/benchmark.rb +82 -0
  54. data/lib/maruku/tests/new_parser.rb +370 -0
  55. data/lib/maruku/tests/tests.rb +136 -0
  56. data/lib/maruku/textile2.rb +1 -0
  57. data/lib/maruku/toc.rb +199 -0
  58. data/lib/maruku/usage/example1.rb +33 -0
  59. data/lib/maruku/version.rb +40 -0
  60. data/tests/bugs/code_in_links.md +16 -0
  61. data/tests/bugs/complex_escaping.md +4 -0
  62. data/tests/math/syntax.md +46 -0
  63. data/tests/math_usage/document.md +13 -0
  64. data/tests/others/abbreviations.md +11 -0
  65. data/tests/others/blank.md +4 -0
  66. data/tests/others/code.md +5 -0
  67. data/tests/others/code2.md +8 -0
  68. data/tests/others/code3.md +16 -0
  69. data/tests/others/email.md +4 -0
  70. data/tests/others/entities.md +19 -0
  71. data/tests/others/escaping.md +16 -0
  72. data/tests/others/extra_dl.md +101 -0
  73. data/tests/others/extra_header_id.md +13 -0
  74. data/tests/others/extra_table1.md +40 -0
  75. data/tests/others/footnotes.md +17 -0
  76. data/tests/others/headers.md +10 -0
  77. data/tests/others/hrule.md +10 -0
  78. data/tests/others/images.md +20 -0
  79. data/tests/others/inline_html.md +42 -0
  80. data/tests/others/links.md +38 -0
  81. data/tests/others/list1.md +4 -0
  82. data/tests/others/list2.md +5 -0
  83. data/tests/others/list3.md +8 -0
  84. data/tests/others/lists.md +32 -0
  85. data/tests/others/lists_after_paragraph.md +44 -0
  86. data/tests/others/lists_ol.md +39 -0
  87. data/tests/others/misc_sw.md +105 -0
  88. data/tests/others/one.md +1 -0
  89. data/tests/others/paragraphs.md +13 -0
  90. data/tests/others/sss06.md +352 -0
  91. data/tests/others/test.md +4 -0
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  93. data/tests/unittest/abbreviations.md +72 -0
  94. data/tests/unittest/alt.md +30 -0
  95. data/tests/unittest/attributes/att2.md +34 -0
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  97. data/tests/unittest/attributes/attributes.md +82 -0
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  101. data/tests/unittest/blanks_in_code.md +106 -0
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  110. data/tests/unittest/divs/div3_nest.md +62 -0
  111. data/tests/unittest/easy.md +28 -0
  112. data/tests/unittest/email.md +33 -0
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  117. data/tests/unittest/extra_dl.md +72 -0
  118. data/tests/unittest/extra_header_id.md +86 -0
  119. data/tests/unittest/extra_table1.md +55 -0
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  121. data/tests/unittest/headers.md +54 -0
  122. data/tests/unittest/hex_entities.md +50 -0
  123. data/tests/unittest/hrule.md +60 -0
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  147. data/tests/unittest/loss.md +29 -0
  148. data/tests/unittest/math/equations.md +69 -0
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  170. data/tests/unittest/references/spaces_and_numbers.md +28 -0
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  180. data/tests/utf8-files/simple.md +1 -0
  181. data/unit_test_block.sh +5 -0
  182. data/unit_test_span.sh +2 -0
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+ #!/usr/bin/env ruby
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+ require 'maruku'
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+ if File.basename($0) =~ /^marutex/
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+ # Convert each file
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+ ARGV.each do |f|
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+ puts "Opening #{f}"
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+
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+ # read file content
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+ input = File.open(f,'r').read
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+
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+ # create Maruku
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+ doc = Maruku.new(input)
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+ # convert to a complete html document
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+ latex = doc.to_latex_document
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+
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+ # write to file
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+ dir = File.dirname(f)
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+ job = File.join(dir, File.basename(f, File.extname(f)))
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+ filename = job + ".tex"
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+
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+ File.open(filename,'w') do |f| f.puts latex end
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+
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+ # run twice for cross references
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+ system "pdflatex '#{job}' '-output-directory=#{dir}' "
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+ system "pdflatex '#{job}' '-output-directory=#{dir}' "
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+ # system "open #{job}.pdf"
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+ end
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+ end
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+ CSS: style.css
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+ LaTeX CJK: true
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+ HTML use syntax: true
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+ <!-- #### Changes in the development version (**not yet released**) #### {#last} -->
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+ #### Changes in 0.5.6 #### {#stable}
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+
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+ * News:
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+
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+ - Now Maruku is in the official Gentoo Portage tree (done by [Aggelos Orfanakos])
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+
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+ * New stuff:
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+
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+ - Attribute `maruku_signature` defaults to false. (many people asked this)
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+ - unittests scripts are included in the distribution.
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+ - New attribute `filter_html`: if true, raw HTML/XML is discarded. (asked by Marik)
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+ - Command line: if output file is `-`, Maruku writes to stdout.
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+
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+ * Bug fixes:
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+
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+ * Another tiny bug in HTML parsing.
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+ * In latex, `\linebreak` was used instead of `\newline` (reported by Sam Kleinman)
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+ * Fixed bug with non-alpha numeric characters in ref.ids (reported by Aggelos Orfanakos)
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+
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+ * Pending bugs/feature requests:
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+
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+ - Maruku does not allow 3-space indented lists.
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+ - Lists item whose first character is UTF8 are not recognized (reported by Aggelos Orfanakos)
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+ - Maruku cannot output `"`-delimited attributes, because `REXML` does not support it.
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+ [Aggelos Orfanakos]: http://agorf.gr/
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+ #### Changes in 0.5.5 ####
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+ * Features:
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+ * Input of HTML numeric entities:
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+ Examples of numeric character references include &#169; or &#xA9;
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+ for the copyright symbol, &#913; or &#x391; for the Greek capital
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+ letter alpha, and &#1575; or &#x627; for the Arabic letter alef.
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+ > Examples of numeric character references include &#169; or &#xA9;
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+ > for the copyright symbol, &#913; or &#x391; for the Greek capital
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+ > letter alpha, and &#1575; or &#x627; for the Arabic letter alef.
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+ * Bug fixes:
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+ * Alt text was ignored for images.
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+ * Fixed minor bug in reading HTML inside paragraph.
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+ * Changed rules for block-level HTML to make it similar to Markdown.pl.
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+ For example:
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+ Paragraph
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+ <div></div>
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+ will be translated to
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+ <div></div></p>
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+ while this:
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+ Paragraph
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+ <div></div>
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+ becomes
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+ <p>Paragraph</p>
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+ <div></div>
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+ * **Pending bugs**: there are some problems when parsing lists. It is difficult
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+ to get it right because the spec is very fuzzy. At the moment, list items
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+ cannot be indented by more than 1 space.
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+ #### Changes in 0.5.4 ####
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+ * Features:
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+ * [All HTML attributes](http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/attributes.html) are supported.
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+ > Science is a wonderful thing if one does not
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+ {: cite="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein"}
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+ * Attribute `doc_prefix`.
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+ * Math:
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+ * `\begin{equation}` and `\end{equation}` are understood.
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+ * Math parsing enabled per-instance using the `math_enabled` attribute.
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+ * `math_numbered` attribute.
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+ * Bug fixes:
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+ * Runs quietly with `ruby -w`.
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+ * Fixed a bug which could cause data-loss when reading indented lines.
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+ #### Changes in 0.5.3 ####
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+ * Features:
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+ * [All HTML `table` attributes](http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.1)
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+ can be used (`summary`, `width`, `frame`, `rules`,
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+ `border`, `cellspacing`, `cellpadding`).
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+ The next version will hopefully use all HTML attributes.
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+ <!-- A version of Markdown that is more Japanese or something -->
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+ * Bug fixes:
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+ * Crash on this line: (found by Aggelos Orfanakos)
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+ [test][]:
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+ * Regression with attribute system (found by Charles)
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+ #### Changes in 0.5.1 ####
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+ * Bug fixes:
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+ * Workaround for Internet Explorer bug:
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+ be very sure that `&apos;` is always written as `&#39;`.
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+ * Support for empty images ref: `![image]` and `![image][]`.
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+ * Fixed bug in parsing attribute lists definitions.
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+ Example:
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+ Example
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+ #### Changes in 0.5.0 ####
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+ * Syntax changes:
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+ * Compatibility with newest Markdown.pl: `[text]` as a synonim of `[text][]`.
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+ * Meta data: the first IAL in a span environment now refers to the parent.
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+ This makes it possible to set attributes for cells:
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+ {:r} Hello + ...
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+ * New settings:
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+ * Disable the Maruku signature by setting `maruku signature: false`
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+ * Stricter doctype. By the way -- did I mention it? --
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+ **Maruku HTML has always been proper validating XHTML strict**
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+ * Content-type set to `application/xhtml+xml`
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+ * All entities are written as numeric entities.
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+ * Bug fixes
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+ #### Changes in 0.4.2 ####
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+ * Adapted syntax to the [new meta-data proposal][proposal].
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+ * Links to external URLs are blue by default.
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+ and `latex_cjk` to add packages for UTF-8 Japanese characters.
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+ (**support for this is still shaky**). Example:
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+ Title: my document
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+ LaTeX CJK: true
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+ LaTeX preamble: preamble.tex
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+ Content
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+ * Bug fixes
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+ #### Changes in 0.4.1 aka "Typographer" ####
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+ * Implemented SmartyPants support:
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+ 'Twas a "test" to 'remember' -- in the '90s
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+ --- while I was <<ok>>. She was 6\"12\'.
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+ > 'Twas a "test" to 'remember' -- in the '90s --- while I was <<ok>>.
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+ > She was 6\"12\'.
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+ * Fixed bugs in rendering of immediate links.
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+ * External packages are `require`d only if needed.
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+ * More symbols supported.
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+ See the symbol list
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+ * General refactorization of the code and much cleaner error reporting.
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+ * Created [the RDOC documentation][rdoc].
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+ * The `add_whitespace` method took too much time -- it was O(n^2).
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+ * Added unit-tests for block-level elements.
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+ [itex2MML]: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/itex2MML.html
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+ [math]: http://rubyforge.maruku.org/math.html
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+ #### Changes in 0.3 ####
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+ Now Maruku is almost 2x faster than Bluecloth, while having more features.
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+ Here are some benchmarks:
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+ BlueCloth (to_html): parsing 0.00 sec + rendering 1.54 sec = 1.55 sec
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+ Maruku (to_html): parsing 0.47 sec + rendering 0.38 sec = 0.85 sec
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+ Maruku (to_latex): parsing 0.49 sec + rendering 0.25 sec = 0.73 sec
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+ * Added a full suite of unit-tests for the span-level parser.
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+ * Error management: Having a real parser, Maruku warns you about syntax issues.
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+ > (カタカナで 私の 名前は アンドレア チェンシ です).
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+ >
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+ > (日本のガルは 大好き、でも、日本語は難しですから、そうぞ 英語話すガルを おしえてください).
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+ In the LaTeX version, these do not appear. I know how to do LaTeX with
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+ * Exporting to Markdown (pretty printing).
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+ [proposal]: http://maruku.rubyforge.org/proposal.html
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+ [contact]: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~acensi/contact.html
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+ [markdown-discuss]: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
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+ [tracker]: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=2795
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+ ## Option number 1 ##
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+ * `[ ]{0,3}\+={2,}` pushes the stack
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+ * `[ ]{0,3}\-={2,}` pops the stack
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+
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+ +================ {#id}
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+ IAL can be put on the same line of a push
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+ ===================================
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+ if k.kind_of? String
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+ all << (h=md_code("&#{e.html_entity};")) <<
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+ " " << md_entity(e.html_entity) <<
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+ " (" << (l=md_code(e.latex_string)) << ") \n" <<
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+ md_entity('nbsp')<<md_entity('nbsp')<<md_entity('nbsp')
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+
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+ h.attributes[:code_background_color] = '#eef'
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+ l.attributes[:code_background_color] = '#ffe'
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+ end
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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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+ **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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+ [src]: /projects/markdown/syntax.text
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+
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+ * * *
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+ <h2 id="overview">Overview</h2>
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+ <h3 id="philosophy">Philosophy</h3>
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+ Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible.
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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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+ [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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+ 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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+ <h3 id="html">Inline HTML</h3>
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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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+ 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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+ 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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+ 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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+ <td>Foo</td>
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+ </table>
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+ This is another regular paragraph.
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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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+ 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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+ Unlike block-level HTML tags, Markdown syntax *is* processed within
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+ <h3 id="autoescape">Automatic Escaping for Special Characters</h3>
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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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+ characters, you must escape them as entities, e.g. `&lt;`, and
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+ `&amp;`.
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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&amp;T`'. You even need to
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+ escape ampersands within URLs. Thus, if you want to link to:
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+ you need to encode the URL as:
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+ http://images.google.com/images?num=30&amp;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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+ 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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+ So, if you want to include a copyright symbol in your article, you can write:
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+ &copy;
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+ AT&T
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+ Markdown will translate it to:
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+ AT&amp;T
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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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+ 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 indented with spaces or tabs.
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+
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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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+ 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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+ 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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+ [l]: #list
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+ <h3 id="header">Headers</h3>
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+ Markdown supports two styles of headers, [Setext] [1] and [atx] [2].
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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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+ =============
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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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+ 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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+ # This is an H1 #
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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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+ > 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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+ Markdown allows you to be lazy and only put the `>` before the first
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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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+ > 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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+ > 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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+ > ## This is a header.
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+ >
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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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+ >
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+ > Here's some example code:
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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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+ <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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+ 3. Parish
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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>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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+ 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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+ you can use ordinal numbers in your ordered Markdown lists, so that
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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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+ or a tab.
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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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+ * Bird
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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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+ </ul>
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+
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+ But this:
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+ * Bird
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+ * Magic
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+ will turn into:
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+ <ul>
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+ <li><p>Bird</p></li>
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+ <li><p>Magic</p></li>
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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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+ or one tab:
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+ 1. This is a list item with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor
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+ sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit
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+ mi posuere lectus.
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+ Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet
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+ vitae, risus. Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum
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+ sit amet velit.
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+ 2. Suspendisse id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing.
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+ It looks nice if you indent every line of the subsequent
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+ paragraphs, but here again, Markdown will allow you to be
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+ lazy:
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+ * This is a list item with two paragraphs.
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+ This is the second paragraph in the list item. You're
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+ only required to indent the first line. Lorem ipsum dolor
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+ sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
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+ * Another item in the same list.
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+ To put a blockquote within a list item, the blockquote's `>`
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+ delimiters need to be indented:
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+
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+ * A list item with a blockquote:
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+ > This is a blockquote
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+ > inside a list item.
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+
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+ To put a code block within a list item, the code block needs
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+ to be indented *twice* -- 8 spaces or two tabs:
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+ * A list item with a code block:
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+ <code goes here>
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+
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+ It's worth noting that it's possible to trigger an ordered list by
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+ accident, by writing something like this:
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+ 1986. What a great season.
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+ In other words, a *number-period-space* sequence at the beginning of a
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+ line. To avoid this, you can backslash-escape the period:
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+ 1986\. What a great season.
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+ <h3 id="precode">Code Blocks</h3>
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+ Pre-formatted code blocks are used for writing about programming or
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+ markup source code. Rather than forming normal paragraphs, the lines
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+ of a code block are interpreted literally. Markdown wraps a code block
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+ in both `<pre>` and `<code>` tags.
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+
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+ To produce a code block in Markdown, simply indent every line of the
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+ block by at least 4 spaces or 1 tab. For example, given this input:
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+ This is a normal paragraph:
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+ This is a code block.
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+ Markdown will generate:
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+ <p>This is a normal paragraph:</p>
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+ <pre><code>This is a code block.
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ One level of indentation -- 4 spaces or 1 tab -- is removed from each
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+ line of the code block. For example, this:
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+ Here is an example of AppleScript:
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+
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+ tell application "Foo"
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+ beep
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+ end tell
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+
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+ will turn into:
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+
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+ <p>Here is an example of AppleScript:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>tell application "Foo"
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+ beep
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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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+
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+ <div class="footer">
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+ &copy; 2004 Foo Corporation
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+ </div>
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+
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+ will turn into:
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+
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+ <pre><code>&lt;div class="footer"&gt;
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+ &amp;copy; 2004 Foo Corporation
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+ &lt;/div&gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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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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+
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+
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+
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+ <h3 id="hr">Horizontal Rules</h3>
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+
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+ You can produce a horizontal rule tag (`<hr />`) by placing three or
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+ more hyphens, asterisks, or underscores on a line by themselves. If you
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+ wish, you may use spaces between the hyphens or asterisks. Each of the
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+ following lines will produce a horizontal rule:
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+
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+ * * *
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+
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+ ***
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+
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+ *****
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+
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+ - - -
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+
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+ ---------------------------------------
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+
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+
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+ * * *
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+
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+ <h2 id="span">Span Elements</h2>
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+
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+ <h3 id="link">Links</h3>
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+
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+ Markdown supports two style of links: *inline* and *reference*.
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+
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+ In both styles, the link text is delimited by [square brackets].
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+
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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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+ title for the link, surrounded in quotes. For example:
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+
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+ This is [an example](http://example.com/ "Title") inline link.
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+
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+ [This link](http://example.net/) has no title attribute.
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+
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+ Will produce:
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+
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+ <p>This is <a href="http://example.com/" title="Title">
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+ an example</a> inline link.</p>
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+
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+ <p><a href="http://example.net/">This link</a> has no
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+ title attribute.</p>
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+
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+ If you're referring to a local resource on the same server, you can
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+ use relative paths:
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+
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+ See my [About](/about/) page for details.
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+
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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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+
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+ This is [an example][id] reference-style link.
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+
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+ You can optionally use a space to separate the sets of brackets:
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+
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+ This is [an example] [id] reference-style link.
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+
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+ Then, anywhere in the document, you define your link label like this,
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+ on a line by itself:
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+
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+ [id]: http://example.com/ "Optional Title Here"
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+
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+ That is:
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+
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+ * Square brackets containing the link identifier (optionally
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+ indented from the left margin using up to three spaces);
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+ * followed by a colon;
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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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+ * optionally followed by a title attribute for the link, enclosed
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+ in double or single quotes, or enclosed in parentheses.
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+
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+ The following three link definitions are equivalent:
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+
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+ [foo]: http://example.com/ "Optional Title Here"
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+ [foo]: http://example.com/ 'Optional Title Here'
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+ [foo]: http://example.com/ (Optional Title Here)
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+
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+ **Note:** There is a known bug in Markdown.pl 1.0.1 which prevents
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+ single quotes from being used to delimit link titles.
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+
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+ The link URL may, optionally, be surrounded by angle brackets:
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+
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+ [id]: <http://example.com/> "Optional Title Here"
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+
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+ You can put the title attribute on the next line and use extra spaces
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+ or tabs for padding, which tends to look better with longer URLs:
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+
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+ [id]: http://example.com/longish/path/to/resource/here
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+ "Optional Title Here"
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+
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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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+
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+ Link definition names may constist of letters, numbers, spaces, and
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+ punctuation -- but they are *not* case sensitive. E.g. these two
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+ links:
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+
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+ [link text][a]
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+ [link text][A]
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+
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+ are equivalent.
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+
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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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+
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+ [Google][]
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+
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+ And then define the link:
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+
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+ [Google]: http://google.com/
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+
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+ Because link names may contain spaces, this shortcut even works for
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+ multiple words in the link text:
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+
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+ Visit [Daring Fireball][] for more information.
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+
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+ And then define the link:
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+
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+ [Daring Fireball]: http://daringfireball.net/
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+
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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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+
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+ Here's an example of reference links in action:
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+
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+ I get 10 times more traffic from [Google] [1] than from
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+ [Yahoo] [2] or [MSN] [3].
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+
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+ [1]: http://google.com/ "Google"
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+ [2]: http://search.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Search"
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+ [3]: http://search.msn.com/ "MSN Search"
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+
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+ Using the implicit link name shortcut, you could instead write:
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+
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+ I get 10 times more traffic from [Google][] than from
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+ [Yahoo][] or [MSN][].
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+
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+ [google]: http://google.com/ "Google"
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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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+
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+ Both of the above examples will produce the following HTML output:
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+
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+ <p>I get 10 times more traffic from <a href="http://google.com/"
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+ title="Google">Google</a> than from
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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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+
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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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+
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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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+ [MSN](http://search.msn.com/ "MSN Search").
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+
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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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+ it's 234 characters. In the raw HTML, there's more markup than there
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+ is text.
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+
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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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+ you can add links without interrupting the narrative flow of your
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+ prose.
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+
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+
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+ <h3 id="em">Emphasis</h3>
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+
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+ Markdown treats asterisks (`*`) and underscores (`_`) as indicators of
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+ emphasis. Text wrapped with one `*` or `_` will be wrapped with an
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+ HTML `<em>` tag; double `*`'s or `_`'s will be wrapped with an HTML
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+ `<strong>` tag. E.g., this input:
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+
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+ *single asterisks*
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+
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+ _single underscores_
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+
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+ **double asterisks**
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+
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+ __double underscores__
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+
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+ will produce:
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+
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+ <em>single asterisks</em>
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+
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+ <em>single underscores</em>
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+
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+ <strong>double asterisks</strong>
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+
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+ <strong>double underscores</strong>
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+
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+ You can use whichever style you prefer; the lone restriction is that
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+ the same character must be used to open and close an emphasis span.
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+
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+ Emphasis can be used in the middle of a word:
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+
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+ un*fucking*believable
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+
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+ But if you surround an `*` or `_` with spaces, it'll be treated as a
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+ literal asterisk or underscore.
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+
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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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+ escape it:
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+
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+ \*this text is surrounded by literal asterisks\*
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+
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+
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+
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+ <h3 id="code">Code</h3>
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+
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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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+ normal paragraph. For example:
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+
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+ Use the `printf()` function.
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+
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+ will produce:
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+
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+ <p>Use the <code>printf()</code> function.</p>
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+
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+ To include a literal backtick character within a code span, you can use
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+ multiple backticks as the opening and closing delimiters:
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+
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+ ``There is a literal backtick (`) here.``
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+
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+ which will produce this:
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+
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+ <p><code>There is a literal backtick (`) here.</code></p>
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+
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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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+
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+ A single backtick in a code span: `` ` ``
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+
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+ A backtick-delimited string in a code span: `` `foo` ``
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+
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+ will produce:
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+
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+ <p>A single backtick in a code span: <code>`</code></p>
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+
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+ <p>A backtick-delimited string in a code span: <code>`foo`</code></p>
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+
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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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+
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+ Please don't use any `<blink>` tags.
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+
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+ into:
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+
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+ <p>Please don't use any <code>&lt;blink&gt;</code> tags.</p>
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+
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+ You can write this:
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+
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+ `&#8212;` is the decimal-encoded equivalent of `&mdash;`.
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+
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+ to produce:
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+
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+ <p><code>&amp;#8212;</code> is the decimal-encoded
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+ equivalent of <code>&amp;mdash;</code>.</p>
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+
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+
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+
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+ <h3 id="img">Images</h3>
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+
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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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+
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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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+
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+ Inline image syntax looks like this:
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+
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+ ![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg)
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+
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+ ![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg "Optional title")
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+
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+ That is:
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+
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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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+ attribute text for the image;
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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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+ or single quotes.
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+
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+ Reference-style image syntax looks like this:
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+
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+ ![Alt text][id]
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+
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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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+
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+ [id]: url/to/image "Optional title attribute"
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+
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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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+ use regular HTML `<img>` tags.
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+
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+
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+ * * *
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+
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+
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+ <h2 id="misc">Miscellaneous</h2>
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+
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+ <h3 id="autolink">Automatic Links</h3>
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+
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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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+
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+ <http://example.com/>
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+
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+ Markdown will turn this into:
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+
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+ <a href="http://example.com/">http://example.com/</a>
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+
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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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+
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+ <address@example.com>
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+
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+ into something like this:
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+
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+ <a href="&#x6D;&#x61;i&#x6C;&#x74;&#x6F;:&#x61;&#x64;&#x64;&#x72;&#x65;
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+ &#115;&#115;&#64;&#101;&#120;&#x61;&#109;&#x70;&#x6C;e&#x2E;&#99;&#111;
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+ &#109;">&#x61;&#x64;&#x64;&#x72;&#x65;&#115;&#115;&#64;&#101;&#120;&#x61;
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+ &#109;&#x70;&#x6C;e&#x2E;&#99;&#111;&#109;</a>
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+
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+ which will render in a browser as a clickable link to "address@example.com".
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+
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+ (This sort of entity-encoding trick will indeed fool many, if not
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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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+ will probably eventually start receiving spam.)
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+
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+
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+
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+ <h3 id="backslash">Backslash Escapes</h3>
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+
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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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+
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+ \*literal asterisks\*
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+
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+ Markdown provides backslash escapes for the following characters:
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+
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+ \ backslash
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+ ` backtick
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+ * asterisk
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+ _ underscore
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+ {} curly braces
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+ [] square brackets
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+ () parentheses
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+ # hash mark
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+ + plus sign
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+ - minus sign (hyphen)
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+ . dot
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+ ! exclamation mark
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+