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data/test/index.txt ADDED
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+ # test ronn index
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+
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+ # local manuals
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+ basic_document(7) basic_document.ronn
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+ definition_list_syntax(5) definition_list_syntax.ronn
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+
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+ # see also
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+ grep(1) http://man.cx/grep(1)
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+ <div class='mp'>
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+ <h2 id="NAME">NAME</h2>
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+ <p class="man-name">
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+ <code>markdown</code> - <span class="man-whatis">humane markup syntax</span>
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+ </p>
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+
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+ <h2 id="SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</h2>
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+
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+ <pre><code># 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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+ &gt; Blockquotes are like quoted text in email replies
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+ &gt;&gt; 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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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <h2 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h2>
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+
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+ <h3 id="Philosophy">Philosophy</h3>
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+
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+ <p>Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible.</p>
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+
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+ <p>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 <a href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/mirror/setext.html">Setext</a>, <a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/atx/">atx</a>, <a href="http://textism.com/tools/textile/">Textile</a>, <a href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html">reStructuredText</a>,
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+ <a href="http://www.triptico.com/software/grutatxt.html">Grutatext</a>, and <a href="http://ettext.taint.org/doc/">EtText</a> -- the single biggest source of
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+ inspiration for Markdown's syntax is the format of plain text email.</p>
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+
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+ <p>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.</p>
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+
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+ <h3 id="Inline-HTML">Inline HTML</h3>
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+
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+ <p>Markdown's syntax is intended for one purpose: to be used as a
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+ format for <em>writing</em> for the web.</p>
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+
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+ <p>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 <em>not</em> 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 <em>publishing</em> format; Markdown is a <em>writing</em>
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+ format. Thus, Markdown's formatting syntax only addresses issues that
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+ can be conveyed in plain text.</p>
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+
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+ <p>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.</p>
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+
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+ <p>The only restrictions are that block-level HTML elements -- e.g. <code>&lt;div&gt;</code>,
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+ <code>&lt;table&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;pre&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;p&gt;</code>, 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) <code>&lt;p&gt;</code> tags around HTML block-level tags.</p>
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+
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+ <p>For example, to add an HTML table to a Markdown article:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>This is a regular paragraph.
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+
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+ &lt;table&gt;
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+ &lt;tr&gt;
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+ &lt;td&gt;Foo&lt;/td&gt;
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+ &lt;/tr&gt;
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+ &lt;/table&gt;
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+
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+ This is another regular paragraph.
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>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 <code>*emphasis*</code> inside an
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+ HTML block.</p>
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+
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+ <p>Span-level HTML tags -- e.g. <code>&lt;span&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;cite&gt;</code>, or <code>&lt;del&gt;</code> -- 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 <code>&lt;a&gt;</code> or <code>&lt;img&gt;</code> tags instead of Markdown's
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+ link or image syntax, go right ahead.</p>
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+
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+ <p>Unlike block-level HTML tags, Markdown syntax <em>is</em> processed within
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+ span-level tags.</p>
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+
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+ <h3 id="Automatic-Escaping-for-Special-Characters">Automatic Escaping for Special Characters</h3>
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+
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+ <p>In HTML, there are two characters that demand special treatment: <code>&lt;</code>
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+ and <code>&amp;</code>. 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. <code>&amp;lt;</code>, and
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+ <code>&amp;amp;</code>.</p>
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+
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+ <p>Ampersands in particular are bedeviling for web writers. If you want to
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+ write about 'AT&amp;T', you need to write '<code>AT&amp;amp;T</code>'. You even need to
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+ escape ampersands within URLs. Thus, if you want to link to:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>http://images.google.com/images?num=30&amp;q=larry+bird
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>you need to encode the URL as:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>http://images.google.com/images?num=30&amp;amp;q=larry+bird
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>in your anchor tag <code>href</code> 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.</p>
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+
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+ <p>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 <code>&amp;amp;</code>.</p>
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+
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+ <p>So, if you want to include a copyright symbol in your article, you can write:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>&amp;copy;
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>and Markdown will leave it alone. But if you write:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>AT&amp;T
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>Markdown will translate it to:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>AT&amp;amp;T
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>Similarly, because Markdown supports <a href="#html" data-bare-link="true">inline HTML</a>, 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:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>4 &lt; 5
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>Markdown will translate it to:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>4 &amp;lt; 5
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+ </code></pre>
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+ <p>However, inside Markdown code spans and blocks, angle brackets and
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+ ampersands are <em>always</em> 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 <code>&lt;</code>
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+ and <code>&amp;</code> in your example code needs to be escaped.)</p>
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+
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+ <h2 id="BLOCK-ELEMENTS">BLOCK ELEMENTS</h2>
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+ <h3 id="Paragraphs-and-Line-Breaks">Paragraphs and Line Breaks</h3>
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+
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+ <p>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.</p>
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+
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+ <p>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 <code>&lt;br /&gt;</code> tag.</p>
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+
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+ <p>When you <em>do</em> want to insert a <code>&lt;br /&gt;</code> break tag using Markdown, you
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+ end a line with two or more spaces, then type return.</p>
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+
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+ <p>Yes, this takes a tad more effort to create a <code>&lt;br /&gt;</code>, but a simplistic
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+ "every line break is a <code>&lt;br /&gt;</code>" rule wouldn't work for Markdown.
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+ Markdown's email-style <a href="#blockquote" data-bare-link="true">blockquoting</a> and multi-paragraph <a href="#list" data-bare-link="true">list items</a>
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+ work best -- and look better -- when you format them with hard breaks.</p>
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+ <h3 id="Headers">Headers</h3>
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+ <p>Markdown supports two styles of headers, <a href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/mirror/setext.html">Setext</a> and <a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/atx/">atx</a>.</p>
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+
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+ <p>Setext-style headers are "underlined" using equal signs (for first-level
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+ headers) and dashes (for second-level headers). For example:</p>
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+ <pre><code>This is an H1
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+ =============
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+ This is an H2
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+ -------------
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+ </code></pre>
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+ <p>Any number of underlining <code>=</code>'s or <code>-</code>'s will work.</p>
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+ <p>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:</p>
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+ <pre><code># 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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+ </code></pre>
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+ <p>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.) :</p>
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+ <pre><code># This is an H1 #
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+ ## This is an H2 ##
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+ ### This is an H3 ######
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+ </code></pre>
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+ <h3 id="Blockquotes">Blockquotes</h3>
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+ <p>Markdown uses email-style <code>&gt;</code> 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 <code>&gt;</code> before every line:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>&gt; This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
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+ &gt; consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus.
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+ &gt; Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus.
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+ &gt;
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+ &gt; Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. Suspendisse
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+ &gt; id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing.
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+ </code></pre>
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+ <p>Markdown allows you to be lazy and only put the <code>&gt;</code> before the first
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+ line of a hard-wrapped paragraph:</p>
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+ <pre><code>&gt; 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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+ &gt; 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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+ </code></pre>
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+ &gt; Back to the first level.
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+ &gt; 1. This is the first list item.
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+ &gt; 2. This is the second list item.
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+ &gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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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.</p>
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+ <h3 id="Lists">Lists</h3>
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+ <p>Markdown supports ordered (numbered) and unordered (bulleted) lists.</p>
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+ <p>Unordered lists use asterisks, pluses, and hyphens -- interchangably
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+ <pre><code>* Red
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+ * Green
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+ </code></pre>
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+ <p>is equivalent to:</p>
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+ <pre><code>+ Red
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+ + Green
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+ + Blue
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+ </code></pre>
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+ <p>and:</p>
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+ <pre><code>- Red
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+ - Green
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+ - Blue
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+ </code></pre>
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+ <p>Ordered lists use numbers followed by periods:</p>
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+ <pre><code>1. Bird
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+ 2. McHale
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+ 3. Parish
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+ </code></pre>
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+ &lt;li&gt;Parish&lt;/li&gt;
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+ &lt;/ol&gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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+ </code></pre>
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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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+ * 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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+ </code></pre>
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+ &lt;li&gt;Magic&lt;/li&gt;
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+ <pre><code>* Bird
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+ </code></pre>
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+ &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bird&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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+ &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Magic&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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+ &lt;/ul&gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>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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+ or one tab:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>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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+
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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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+
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+ 2. Suspendisse id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing.
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>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:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>* 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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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>To put a blockquote within a list item, the blockquote's <code>&gt;</code>
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+ delimiters need to be indented:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>* A list item with a blockquote:
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+
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+ &gt; This is a blockquote
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+ &gt; inside a list item.
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>To put a code block within a list item, the code block needs
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+ to be indented <em>twice</em> -- 8 spaces or two tabs:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>* A list item with a code block:
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+
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+ &lt;code goes here&gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>It's worth noting that it's possible to trigger an ordered list by
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+ accident, by writing something like this:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>1986. What a great season.
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>In other words, a <em>number-period-space</em> sequence at the beginning of a
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+ line. To avoid this, you can backslash-escape the period:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>1986\. What a great season.
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <h3 id="Code-Blocks">Code Blocks</h3>
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+
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+ <p>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 <code>&lt;pre&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;code&gt;</code> tags.</p>
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+
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+ <p>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:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>This is a normal paragraph:
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+
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+ This is a code block.
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>Markdown will generate:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;This is a normal paragraph:&lt;/p&gt;
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+
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+ &lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;This is a code block.
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+ &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>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:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>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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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>will turn into:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;Here is an example of AppleScript:&lt;/p&gt;
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+
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+ &lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;tell application "Foo"
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+ beep
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+ end tell
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+ &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>A code block continues until it reaches a line that is not indented
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+ (or the end of the article).</p>
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+
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+ <p>Within a code block, ampersands (<code>&amp;</code>) and angle brackets (<code>&lt;</code> and <code>></code>)
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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:</p>
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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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+ <p>will turn into:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class="footer"&amp;gt;
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+ &amp;amp;copy; 2004 Foo Corporation
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+ &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;
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+ &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>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.</p>
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+
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+ <h3 id="Horizontal-Rules">Horizontal Rules</h3>
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+
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+ <p>You can produce a horizontal rule tag (<code>&lt;hr /&gt;</code>) 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:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>* * *
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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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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <h2 id="SPAN-ELEMENTS">SPAN ELEMENTS</h2>
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+
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+ <h3 id="Links">Links</h3>
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+
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+ <p>Markdown supports two style of links: <em>inline</em> and <em>reference</em>.</p>
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+
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+ <p>In both styles, the link text is delimited by [square brackets].</p>
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+
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+ <p>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 <em>optional</em>
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+ title for the link, surrounded in quotes. For example:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>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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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>Will produce:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href="http://example.com/" title="Title"&gt;
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+ an example&lt;/a&gt; inline link.&lt;/p&gt;
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+
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+ &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://example.net/"&gt;This link&lt;/a&gt; has no
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+ title attribute.&lt;/p&gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>If you're referring to a local resource on the same server, you can
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+ use relative paths:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>See my [About](/about/) page for details.
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>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:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>This is [an example][id] reference-style link.
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>You can optionally use a space to separate the sets of brackets:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>This is [an example] [id] reference-style link.
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>Then, anywhere in the document, you define your link label like this,
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+ on a line by itself:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>[id]: http://example.com/ "Optional Title Here"
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>That is:</p>
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+
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+ <ul>
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+ <li>Square brackets containing the link identifier (optionally
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+ indented from the left margin using up to three spaces);</li>
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+ <li>followed by a colon;</li>
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+ <li>followed by one or more spaces (or tabs);</li>
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+ <li>followed by the URL for the link;</li>
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+ <li>optionally followed by a title attribute for the link, enclosed
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+ in double or single quotes, or enclosed in parentheses.</li>
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+ </ul>
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+
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+
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+ <p>The following three link definitions are equivalent:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>[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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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p><strong>Note:</strong> 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.</p>
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+
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+ <p>The link URL may, optionally, be surrounded by angle brackets:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>[id]: &lt;http://example.com/&gt; "Optional Title Here"
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>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:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>[id]: http://example.com/longish/path/to/resource/here
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+ "Optional Title Here"
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>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.</p>
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+
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+ <p>Link definition names may consist of letters, numbers, spaces, and
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+ punctuation -- but they are <em>not</em> case sensitive. E.g. these two
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+ links:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>[link text][a]
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+ [link text][A]
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>are equivalent.</p>
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+
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+ <p>The <em>implicit link name</em> 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:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>[Google][]
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>And then define the link:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>[Google]: http://google.com/
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>Because link names may contain spaces, this shortcut even works for
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+ multiple words in the link text:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>Visit [Daring Fireball][] for more information.
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>And then define the link:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>[Daring Fireball]: http://daringfireball.net/
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>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.</p>
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+
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+ <p>Here's an example of reference links in action:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>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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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>Using the implicit link name shortcut, you could instead write:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>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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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>Both of the above examples will produce the following HTML output:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;I get 10 times more traffic from &lt;a href="http://google.com/"
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+ title="Google"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; than from
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+ &lt;a href="http://search.yahoo.com/" title="Yahoo Search"&gt;Yahoo&lt;/a&gt;
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+ or &lt;a href="http://search.msn.com/" title="MSN Search"&gt;MSN&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>For comparison, here is the same paragraph written using
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+ Markdown's inline link style:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>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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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>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.</p>
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+
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+ <p>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.</p>
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+
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+ <h3 id="Emphasis">Emphasis</h3>
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+
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+ <p>Markdown treats asterisks (<code>*</code>) and underscores (<code>_</code>) as indicators of
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+ emphasis. Text wrapped with one <code>*</code> or <code>_</code> will be wrapped with an
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+ HTML <code>&lt;em&gt;</code> tag; double <code>*</code>'s or <code>_</code>'s will be wrapped with an HTML
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+ <code>&lt;strong&gt;</code> tag. E.g., this input:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>*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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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>will produce:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>&lt;em&gt;single asterisks&lt;/em&gt;
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+
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+ &lt;em&gt;single underscores&lt;/em&gt;
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+
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+ &lt;strong&gt;double asterisks&lt;/strong&gt;
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+
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+ &lt;strong&gt;double underscores&lt;/strong&gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>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.</p>
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+
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+ <p>Emphasis can be used in the middle of a word:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>un*frigging*believable
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>But if you surround an <code>*</code> or <code>_</code> with spaces, it'll be treated as a
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+ literal asterisk or underscore.</p>
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+
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+ <p>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:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>\*this text is surrounded by literal asterisks\*
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <h3 id="Code">Code</h3>
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+
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+ <p>To indicate a span of code, wrap it with backtick quotes (<code>`</code>).
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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:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>Use the `printf()` function.
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>will produce:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;Use the &lt;code&gt;printf()&lt;/code&gt; function.&lt;/p&gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>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:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>``There is a literal backtick (`) here.``
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>which will produce this:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;There is a literal backtick (`) here.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>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:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>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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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>will produce:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;A single backtick in a code span: &lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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+
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+ &lt;p&gt;A backtick-delimited string in a code span: &lt;code&gt;`foo`&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>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:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>Please don't use any `&lt;blink>` tags.
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>into:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;Please don't use any &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;blink&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>You can write this:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>`&amp;#8212;` is the decimal-encoded equivalent of `&amp;mdash;`.
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>to produce:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;#8212;&lt;/code&gt; is the decimal-encoded
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+ equivalent of &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;mdash;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <h3 id="Images">Images</h3>
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+
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+ <p>Admittedly, it's fairly difficult to devise a "natural" syntax for
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+ placing images into a plain text document format.</p>
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+
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+ <p>Markdown uses an image syntax that is intended to resemble the syntax
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+ for links, allowing for two styles: <em>inline</em> and <em>reference</em>.</p>
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+
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+ <p>Inline image syntax looks like this:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>![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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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>That is:</p>
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+
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+ <ul>
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+ <li>An exclamation mark: <code>!</code>;</li>
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+ <li>followed by a set of square brackets, containing the <code>alt</code>
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+ attribute text for the image;</li>
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+ <li>followed by a set of parentheses, containing the URL or path to
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+ the image, and an optional <code>title</code> attribute enclosed in double
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+ or single quotes.</li>
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+ </ul>
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+
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+
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+ <p>Reference-style image syntax looks like this:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>![Alt text][id]
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>Where "id" is the name of a defined image reference. Image references
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+ are defined using syntax identical to link references:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>[id]: url/to/image "Optional title attribute"
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>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 <code>&lt;img&gt;</code> tags.</p>
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+
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+ <h2 id="MISCELLANEOUS">MISCELLANEOUS</h2>
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+
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+ <h3 id="Automatic-Links">Automatic Links</h3>
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+
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+ <p>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:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>&lt;http://example.com/&gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>Markdown will turn this into:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>&lt;a href="http://example.com/"&gt;http://example.com/&lt;/a&gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>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:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>&lt;address@example.com&gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>into something like this:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>&lt;a href="&amp;#x6D;&amp;#x61;i&amp;#x6C;&amp;#x74;&amp;#x6F;:&amp;#x61;&amp;#x64;&amp;#x64;&amp;#x72;&amp;#x65;
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+ &amp;#115;&amp;#115;&amp;#64;&amp;#101;&amp;#120;&amp;#x61;&amp;#109;&amp;#x70;&amp;#x6C;e&amp;#x2E;&amp;#99;&amp;#111;
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+ &amp;#109;"&gt;&amp;#x61;&amp;#x64;&amp;#x64;&amp;#x72;&amp;#x65;&amp;#115;&amp;#115;&amp;#64;&amp;#101;&amp;#120;&amp;#x61;
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+ &amp;#109;&amp;#x70;&amp;#x6C;e&amp;#x2E;&amp;#99;&amp;#111;&amp;#109;&lt;/a&gt;
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+ </code></pre>
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+
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+ <p>which will render in a browser as a clickable link to "address@example.com".</p>
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+
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+ <p>(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.)</p>
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+ <h3 id="Backslash-Escapes">Backslash Escapes</h3>
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+ <p>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 <code>&lt;em&gt;</code> tag), you can use
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+ backslashes before the asterisks, like this:</p>
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+
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+ <pre><code>\*literal asterisks\*
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+ </code></pre>
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+ <p>Markdown provides backslash escapes for the following characters:</p>
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+ <pre><code>\ 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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+ </code></pre>
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+ <h2 id="AUTHOR">AUTHOR</h2>
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+ <p>Markdown was created by John Gruber.</p>
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+ <p>Manual page by Ryan Tomayko. It's pretty much a direct copy of the
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+ <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax">Markdown Syntax Reference</a>,
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+ also by John Gruber.</p>
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+ <h2 id="SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</h2>
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+
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+ <p><span class="man-ref">ronn<span class="s">(5)</span></span><br />
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+ <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/" data-bare-link="true">http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/</a></p>
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+
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+ </div>