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+ <!DOCTYPE html>
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+ <html>
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+ <head>
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+ <title>#{name}(#{section}) -- #{tagline}</title>
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+ <style type='text/css'>
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+ body {
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+ font-family:consolas,monospace;
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+ font-size:18px;
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+ line-height:1.25;
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+ color:#111
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+ }
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+ #man { max-width:42em;text-align:justify;margin:25px }
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+ #man h1, #man h2, #man h3, #man strong, #man code { color:#111 }
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+ #man h1 { text-align:center }
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+ #man h2 { font-size:20px;margin-bottom:0 }
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+ #man h3 { font-size:18px;margin:0 0 0 50px }
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+ #man p, #man ul, #man ol, #man dl, #man pre
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+ { margin:0 0 24px 0; }
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+ #man pre { color:#555;font-size:16px }
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+ #man > p, #man > ul, #man > ol, #man > dl, #man > pre
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+ { margin:0 0 24px 80px; }
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+ #man dt { margin:0;clear:left }
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+ #man dt.flush { float:left;width:105px }
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+ #man dd { margin:0 0 0 105px }
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+ #man code { font-weight:bold; }
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+ #man pre code { font-weight:normal;color:#555 }
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+ #man em { font-style:normal;text-decoration:underline }
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+ </style>
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+ </head>
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+ <body>
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+ <div id='man'>
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+
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+ <h1>#{@name}(#{@section})</h1>
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+
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+ #{html}
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+
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+ </div>
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+ </body>
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+ </html>
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+ require 'nokogiri'
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+
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+ module Ron
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+ class RoffFilter
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+ # Convert Ron HTML to roff.
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+ def initialize(html, name, section, tagline, manual=nil, version=nil, date=nil)
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+ @buf = []
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+ title_heading name, section, tagline, manual, version, date
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+ block_filter(Nokogiri::HTML.fragment(html))
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+ write "\n"
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+ end
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+
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+ def to_s
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+ @buf.join
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+ end
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+
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+ protected
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+ def title_heading(name, section, tagline, manual, version, date)
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+ comment "generated with Ron"
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+ comment "http://github.com/rtomayko/ron/"
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+ macro "TH", %["#{escape(name.upcase)}" #{section} "#{date}" "#{version}" "#{manual}"]
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+ end
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+
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+ def block_filter(node)
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+ if node.kind_of?(Nokogiri::XML::NodeSet)
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+ node.each { |ch| block_filter(ch) }
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+ return
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+ end
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+
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+ prev = node.previous_sibling
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+ prev = prev.previous_sibling until prev.nil? || prev.element?
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+
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+ case node.name
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+
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+ # non-element nodes
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+ when '#document-fragment'
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+ block_filter(node.children)
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+ when 'text'
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+ return if node.text =~ /^\s*$/m
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+ warn "unexpected text: %p", node.text
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+
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+ # headings
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+ when 'h2'
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+ macro "SH", quote(escape(node.content))
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+ when 'h3'
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+ macro "SS", quote(escape(node.content))
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+
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+ # paragraphs
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+ when 'p'
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+ if prev && %w[dd li].include?(node.parent.name)
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+ macro "IP"
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+ elsif prev && !%w[h1 h2 h3].include?(prev.name)
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+ macro "P"
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+ end
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+ inline_filter(node.children)
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+ when 'pre'
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+ macro "nf"
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+ inline_filter(node.search('code').children)
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+ macro "fi"
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+
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+ # definition lists
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+ when 'dl'
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+ macro "TP"
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+ block_filter(node.children)
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+ when 'dt'
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+ macro "TP" unless prev.nil?
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+ inline_filter(node.children)
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+ write "\n"
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+ when 'dd'
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+ if node.search('p').any?
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+ block_filter(node.children)
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+ else
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+ inline_filter(node.children)
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+ end
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+ write "\n"
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+
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+ else
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+ warn "unrecognized block tag: %p", node.name
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+ end
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+ end
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+
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+ def inline_filter(node)
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+ if node.kind_of?(Nokogiri::XML::NodeSet)
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+ node.each { |ch| inline_filter(ch) }
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+ return
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+ end
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+
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+ case node.name
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+ when 'text'
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+ write escape(node.to_s.sub(/\n+$/, ' '))
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+ when 'code', 'b', 'strong'
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+ write '\fB'
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+ inline_filter(node.children)
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+ write '\fR'
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+ when 'em', 'i', 'u'
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+ write '\fI'
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+ inline_filter(node.children)
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+ write '\fR'
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+ when 'br'
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+ macro 'br'
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+ when 'a'
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+ write '\fI'
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+ inline_filter(node.children)
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+ write '\fR'
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+ else
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+ warn "unrecognized inline tag: %p", node.name
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+ end
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+ end
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+
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+ def macro(name, value=nil)
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+ writeln ".\n.#{[name, value].compact.join(' ')}"
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+ end
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+
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+ def escape(text)
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+ text.
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+ gsub(/[\\-]/) { |m| "\\#{m}" }.
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+ gsub('&nbsp;', ' ').
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+ gsub('&lt;', '<').
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+ gsub('&gt;', '>').
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+ gsub('&amp;', '&')
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+ end
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+
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+ def quote(text)
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+ "\"#{text}\""
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+ end
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+
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+ # write text to output buffer
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+ def write(text)
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+ @buf << text
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+ end
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+
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+ # write text to output buffer on a new line.
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+ def writeln(text)
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+ write "\n" if @buf.last && @buf.last[-1] != ?\n
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+ write text
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+ write "\n"
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+ end
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+
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+ def comment(text)
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+ writeln %[.\\" #{text}]
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+ end
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+
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+ def warn(text, *args)
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+ $stderr.puts "warn: #{text}" % args
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+ end
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+ end
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+ end
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+ markdown(5) -- humane markup syntax
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+ ===================================
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+
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+ ## SYNOPSIS
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+
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+ # Header 1 #
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+ ## Header 2 ##
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+ ### Header 3 ### (Hashes on right are optional)
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+ #### Header 4 ####
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+ ##### Header 5 #####
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+
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+ This is a paragraph, which is text surrounded by whitespace.
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+ Paragraphs can be on one line (or many), and can drone on for
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+ hours.
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+
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+ [Reference style links][1] and [inline links](http://example.com)
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+ [1]: http://example.com "Title is optional"
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+
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+ Inline markup like _italics_, **bold**, and `code()`.
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+
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+ ![picture alt](/images/photo.jpeg "Title is optional")
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+
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+ > Blockquotes are like quoted text in email replies
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+ >> And, they can be nested
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+
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+ code blocks are for preformatted
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+ text and must be indented with four spaces
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+
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+ * Bullet lists are easy too
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+ * You can
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+ * even
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+ * nest them
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+ - Another one
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+ + Another one
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+
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+ ## DESCRIPTION
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+
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+ ### Philosophy
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+
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+ Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible.
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+
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+ Readability, however, is emphasized above all else. A Markdown-formatted
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+ document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking
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+ like it's been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While
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+ Markdown's syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML
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+ filters -- including [Setext] [1], [atx] [2], [Textile] [3], [reStructuredText] [4],
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+ [Grutatext] [5], and [EtText] [6] -- the single biggest source of
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+ inspiration for Markdown's syntax is the format of plain text email.
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+
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+ [1]: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/mirror/setext.html
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+ [2]: http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/atx/
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+ [3]: http://textism.com/tools/textile/
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+ [4]: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
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+ [5]: http://www.triptico.com/software/grutatxt.html
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+ [6]: http://ettext.taint.org/doc/
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+
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+ To this end, Markdown's syntax is comprised entirely of punctuation
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+ characters, which punctuation characters have been carefully chosen so
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+ as to look like what they mean. E.g., asterisks around a word actually
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+ look like \*emphasis\*. Markdown lists look like, well, lists. Even
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+ blockquotes look like quoted passages of text, assuming you've ever
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+ used email.
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+
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+ ### Inline HTML
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+
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+ Markdown's syntax is intended for one purpose: to be used as a
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+ format for *writing* for the web.
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+
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+ Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it. Its
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+ syntax is very small, corresponding only to a very small subset of
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+ HTML tags. The idea is *not* to create a syntax that makes it easier
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+ to insert HTML tags. In my opinion, HTML tags are already easy to
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+ insert. The idea for Markdown is to make it easy to read, write, and
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+ edit prose. HTML is a *publishing* format; Markdown is a *writing*
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+ format. Thus, Markdown's formatting syntax only addresses issues that
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+ can be conveyed in plain text.
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+
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+ For any markup that is not covered by Markdown's syntax, you simply
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+ use HTML itself. There's no need to preface it or delimit it to
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+ indicate that you're switching from Markdown to HTML; you just use
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+ the tags.
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+
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+ The only restrictions are that block-level HTML elements -- e.g. `<div>`,
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+ `<table>`, `<pre>`, `<p>`, etc. -- must be separated from surrounding
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+ content by blank lines, and the start and end tags of the block should
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+ not be indented with tabs or spaces. Markdown is smart enough not
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+ to add extra (unwanted) `<p>` tags around HTML block-level tags.
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+
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+ For example, to add an HTML table to a Markdown article:
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+
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+ This is a regular paragraph.
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+
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+ <table>
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+ <tr>
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+ <td>Foo</td>
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+ </tr>
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+ </table>
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+
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+ This is another regular paragraph.
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+
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+ Note that Markdown formatting syntax is not processed within block-level
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+ HTML tags. E.g., you can't use Markdown-style `*emphasis*` inside an
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+ HTML block.
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+
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+ Span-level HTML tags -- e.g. `<span>`, `<cite>`, or `<del>` -- can be
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+ used anywhere in a Markdown paragraph, list item, or header. If you
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+ want, you can even use HTML tags instead of Markdown formatting; e.g. if
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+ you'd prefer to use HTML `<a>` or `<img>` tags instead of Markdown's
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+ link or image syntax, go right ahead.
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+
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+ Unlike block-level HTML tags, Markdown syntax *is* processed within
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+ span-level tags.
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+
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+ ### Automatic Escaping for Special Characters
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+
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+ In HTML, there are two characters that demand special treatment: `<`
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+ and `&`. Left angle brackets are used to start tags; ampersands are
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+ used to denote HTML entities. If you want to use them as literal
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+ characters, you must escape them as entities, e.g. `&lt;`, and
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+ `&amp;`.
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+
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+ Ampersands in particular are bedeviling for web writers. If you want to
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+ write about 'AT&T', you need to write '`AT&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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+
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+ http://images.google.com/images?num=30&q=larry+bird
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+
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+ you need to encode the URL as:
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+
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+ http://images.google.com/images?num=30&amp;q=larry+bird
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+
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+ in your anchor tag `href` attribute. Needless to say, this is easy to
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+ forget, and is probably the single most common source of HTML validation
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+ errors in otherwise well-marked-up web sites.
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+
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+ Markdown allows you to use these characters naturally, taking care of
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+ all the necessary escaping for you. If you use an ampersand as part of
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+ an HTML entity, it remains unchanged; otherwise it will be translated
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+ into `&amp;`.
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+
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+ So, if you want to include a copyright symbol in your article, you can write:
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+
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+ &copy;
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+
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+ and Markdown will leave it alone. But if you write:
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+
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+ AT&T
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+
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+ Markdown will translate it to:
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+
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+ AT&amp;T
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+
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+ Similarly, because Markdown supports [inline HTML](#html), if you use
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+ angle brackets as delimiters for HTML tags, Markdown will treat them as
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+ such. But if you write:
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+
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+ 4 < 5
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+
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+ Markdown will translate it to:
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+
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+ 4 &lt; 5
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+
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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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+ ## BLOCK ELEMENTS
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+
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+ ### Paragraphs and Line Breaks
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+
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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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+
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+ When you *do* want to insert a `<br />` break tag using Markdown, you
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+ end a line with two or more spaces, then type return.
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+
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+ Yes, this takes a tad more effort to create a `<br />`, but a simplistic
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+ "every line break is a `<br />`" rule wouldn't work for Markdown.
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+ Markdown's email-style [blockquoting][bq] and multi-paragraph [list items][l]
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+ work best -- and look better -- when you format them with hard breaks.
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+
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+ [bq]: #blockquote
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+ [l]: #list
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+
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+ ### Headers
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+
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+ Markdown supports two styles of headers, [Setext] [1] and [atx] [2].
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+
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+ Setext-style headers are "underlined" using equal signs (for first-level
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+ headers) and dashes (for second-level headers). For example:
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+
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+ This is an H1
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+ =============
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+
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+ This is an H2
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+ -------------
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+
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+ Any number of underlining `=`'s or `-`'s will work.
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+
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+ Atx-style headers use 1-6 hash characters at the start of the line,
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+ corresponding to header levels 1-6. For example:
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+
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+ # This is an H1
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+
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+ ## This is an H2
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+
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+ ###### This is an H6
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+
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+ Optionally, you may "close" atx-style headers. This is purely
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+ cosmetic -- you can use this if you think it looks better. The
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+ closing hashes don't even need to match the number of hashes
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+ used to open the header. (The number of opening hashes
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+ determines the header level.) :
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+
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+ # This is an H1 #
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+
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+ ## This is an H2 ##
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+
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+ ### This is an H3 ######
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+
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+ ### Blockquotes
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+
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+ Markdown uses email-style `>` characters for blockquoting. If you're
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+ familiar with quoting passages of text in an email message, then you
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+ know how to create a blockquote in Markdown. It looks best if you hard
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+ wrap the text and put a `>` before every line:
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+
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+ > This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
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+ > consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus.
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+ > Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus.
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+ >
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+ > Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. Suspendisse
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+ > id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing.
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+ Markdown allows you to be lazy and only put the `>` before the first
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+ line of a hard-wrapped paragraph:
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+ > This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
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+ consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus.
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+ Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus.
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+
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+ > Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. Suspendisse
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+ id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing.
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+ Blockquotes can be nested (i.e. a blockquote-in-a-blockquote) by
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+ adding additional levels of `>`:
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+ > This is the first level of quoting.
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+ >
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+ > > This is nested blockquote.
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+ >
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+ > Back to the first level.
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+ Blockquotes can contain other Markdown elements, including headers, lists,
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+ and code blocks:
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+ > ## This is a header.
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+ >
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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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+ >
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+ > return shell_exec("echo $input | $markdown_script");
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+ Any decent text editor should make email-style quoting easy. For
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+ example, with BBEdit, you can make a selection and choose Increase
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+ Quote Level from the Text menu.
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+ ### Lists
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+ -- as list markers:
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+ * Red
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+ * Green
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+ * Blue
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+ is equivalent to:
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+ + Red
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+ + Green
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+ + Blue
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+ and:
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+ - Red
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+ - Green
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+ - Blue
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+ 1. Bird
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+ 2. McHale
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+ 3. Parish
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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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+ <li>Bird</li>
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+ <li>McHale</li>
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+ <li>Parish</li>
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+ </ol>
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+ or even:
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+ 3. Bird
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+ 1. McHale
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+ 8. Parish
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+ you'd get the exact same HTML output. The point is, if you want to,
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+ 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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+
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+ But if you want to be lazy, you don't have to:
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+
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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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+ 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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+ <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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+ <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 indented by either 4 spaces
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+ sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit
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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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+
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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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+
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+ * Another item in the same list.
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+
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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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+ * A list item with a blockquote:
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+
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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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+
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+ * A list item with a code block:
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+
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+ <code goes here>
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+
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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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+
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+ 1986. What a great season.
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+
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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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+
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+ 1986\. What a great season.
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+
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+ ### Code Blocks
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+
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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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+
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+ This is a normal paragraph:
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+
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+ This is a code block.
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+
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+ Markdown will generate:
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+
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+ <p>This is a normal paragraph:</p>
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+
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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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+
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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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+ ### Horizontal Rules
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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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+ ## SPAN ELEMENTS
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+
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+ ### Links
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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 consist 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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+ ### Emphasis
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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*frigging*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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+ ### Code
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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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+ ### Images
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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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+ ## MISCELLANEOUS
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+
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+ ### Automatic Links
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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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+ ### Backslash Escapes
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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
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+ with literal asterisks (instead of an HTML `<em>` tag), you can use
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+ backslashes 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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+
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+ ## AUTHOR
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+
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+ Markdown was created by John Gruber.
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+
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+ Manual page by Ryan Tomayko. It's pretty much a direct copy of the
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+ [Markdown Syntax Reference](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax),
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+ also by John Gruber.
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+
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+ ## SEE ALSO
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+
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+ ron(5)
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+ <http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>