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- data/COPYING +21 -0
- data/README.md +135 -0
- data/Rakefile +114 -0
- data/bin/ron +2 -0
- data/bin/ronn +147 -0
- data/lib/ronn.rb +16 -0
- data/lib/ronn/document.rb +288 -0
- data/lib/ronn/layout.html +75 -0
- data/lib/ronn/roff.rb +197 -0
- data/man/markdown.5 +1513 -0
- data/man/markdown.5.ronn +881 -0
- data/man/ronn.1 +220 -0
- data/man/ronn.1.ronn +158 -0
- data/man/ronn.5 +190 -0
- data/man/ronn.5.ronn +152 -0
- data/man/ronn.7 +195 -0
- data/man/ronn.7.ronn +135 -0
- data/ronn.gemspec +69 -0
- data/test/angle_bracket_syntax.html +13 -0
- data/test/angle_bracket_syntax.ronn +12 -0
- data/test/basic_document.html +4 -0
- data/test/basic_document.ronn +4 -0
- data/test/custom_title_document.html +4 -0
- data/test/custom_title_document.ronn +5 -0
- data/test/definition_list_syntax.html +16 -0
- data/test/definition_list_syntax.ronn +18 -0
- data/test/document_test.rb +88 -0
- data/test/entity_encoding_test.html +10 -0
- data/test/entity_encoding_test.roff +19 -0
- data/test/entity_encoding_test.ronn +8 -0
- data/test/middle_paragraph.html +10 -0
- data/test/middle_paragraph.roff +13 -0
- data/test/middle_paragraph.ronn +10 -0
- data/test/ronn_test.rb +78 -0
- data/test/titleless_document.html +2 -0
- data/test/titleless_document.ronn +2 -0
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<head>
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<meta http-equiv='content-type' value='text/html;charset=utf8'>
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<meta name='generator' value='Ronn/v#{Ronn::VERSION}'>
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<title>#{name}(#{section})#{tagline ? " -- " + tagline : ''}</title>
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#man p, #man ul, #man ol, #man dl, #man pre { margin:0 0 18px 0; }
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#man code, #man strong, #man b { font-weight:bold; color:#131211; }
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<li class='tl'>#{name if section}#{"("+section+")" if name and section}</li>
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<li class='tr'>#{name if section}#{"("+section+")" if name and section}</li>
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#{html}
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<li class='tl'>#{organization}</li>
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<li class='tc'>#{date.strftime('%B %Y')}</li>
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<li class='tr'>#{name if section}#{"("+section+")" if name and section}</li>
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require 'hpricot'
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module Ronn
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class RoffFilter
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# Convert Ronn 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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html = Hpricot(html)
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block_filter(html)
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write "\n"
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end
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def to_s
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@buf.join.gsub(/\s+$/, '')
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end
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protected
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def previous(node)
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if node.respond_to?(:previous)
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prev = node.previous
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prev = prev.previous until prev.nil? || prev.elem?
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prev
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end
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end
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def title_heading(name, section, tagline, manual, version, date)
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comment "generated with Ronn/v#{Ronn::VERSION}"
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comment "http://github.com/rtomayko/ronn/"
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macro "TH", %["#{escape(name.upcase)}" "#{section}" "#{date.strftime('%B %Y')}" "#{version}" "#{manual}"]
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end
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def block_filter(node)
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if node.kind_of?(Array) || node.kind_of?(Hpricot::Elements)
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node.each { |ch| block_filter(ch) }
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elsif node.doc?
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block_filter(node.children)
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elsif node.text?
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case node.name
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when 'h2'
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macro "SH", quote(escape(node.html))
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when 'h3'
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macro "SS", quote(escape(node.html))
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prev = previous(node)
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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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indent = prev.nil? || !%w[h1 h2 h3].include?(prev.name)
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macro "IP", %w["" 4] if indent
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macro "nf"
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write "\n"
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inline_filter(node.search('code > *'))
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macro "fi"
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macro "IP", %w["" 0] if indent
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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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prev = previous(node)
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macro "TP" unless prev.nil?
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inline_filter(node.children)
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if node.search('p').any?
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end
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.\" http://github.com/rtomayko/ronn/
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.TH "MARKDOWN" "5" "March 2010" "Ryan Tomayko" "Ronn Manual"
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.SH "NAME"
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\fBmarkdown\fR \-\- humane markup syntax
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> Blockquotes are like quoted text in email replies
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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 \fISetext\fR, \fIatx\fR, \fITextile\fR, \fIreStructuredText\fR, \fIGrutatext\fR, and \fIEtText\fR \-\- 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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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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format for \fIwriting\fR for the web.
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Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it. Its
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syntax is very small, corresponding only to a very small subset of
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HTML tags. The idea is \fInot\fR 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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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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punctuation \-\- but they are \fInot\fR case sensitive. E.g. these two
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links:
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[link text][A]
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are equivalent.
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|
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link, in which case the link text itself is used as the name.
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|
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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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|
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[Google][]
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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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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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Visit [Daring Fireball][] for more information.
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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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|
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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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|
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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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[1]: http://google.com/ "Google"
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[2]: http://search.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Search"
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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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[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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Both of the above examples will produce the following HTML output:
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|
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|
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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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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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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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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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.SS "Emphasis"
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Markdown treats asterisks (\fB*\fR) and underscores (\fB_\fR) as indicators of
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emphasis. Text wrapped with one \fB*\fR or \fB_\fR will be wrapped with an
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HTML \fB<em>\fR tag; double \fB*\fR's or \fB_\fR's will be wrapped with an HTML \fB<strong>\fR tag. E.g., this input:
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*single asterisks*
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_single underscores_
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+
**double asterisks**
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__double underscores__
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will produce:
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.nf
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<em>single asterisks</em>
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<em>single underscores</em>
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<strong>double asterisks</strong>
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<strong>double underscores</strong>
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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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literal asterisk or underscore.
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.
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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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.nf
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.SS "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:
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.nf
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.P
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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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.nf
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``There is a literal backtick (`) here.``
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.nf
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.fi
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.P
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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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.nf
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A single backtick in a code span: `` ` ``
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A backtick\-delimited string in a code span: `` `foo` ``
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.fi
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.P
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will produce:
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.nf
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<p>A single backtick in a code span: <code>`</code></p>
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<p>A backtick\-delimited string in a code span: <code>`foo`</code></p>
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With a code span, ampersands and angle brackets are encoded as HTML
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entities automatically, which makes it easy to include example HTML
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1282
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tags. Markdown will turn this:
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.nf
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Please don't use any `<blink>` tags.
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.fi
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.P
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into:
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.nf
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<p>Please don't use any <code><blink></code> tags.</p>
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followed by a set of square brackets, containing the \fBalt\fR
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attribute text for the image;
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dimensions of an image; if this is important to you, you can simply
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.SS "Automatic Links"
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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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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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into something like this:
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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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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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.SS "Backslash Escapes"
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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 \fB<em>\fR tag), you can use
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backslashes before the asterisks, like this:
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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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.SH "AUTHOR"
|
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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\fIMarkdown Syntax Reference\fR,
|
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|
+
also by John Gruber.
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+
.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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\fIhttp://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/\fR
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