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<h1>Markdown: Syntax</h1>
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can <a href="/projects/markdown/syntax.text">see the source for it by adding '.text' to the URL</a>.</p>
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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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format. Thus, Markdown's formatting syntax only addresses issues that
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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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<p>Here's an example of reference links in action:</p>
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[Yahoo] [2] or [MSN] [3].
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[Yahoo][] or [MSN][].
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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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</code></pre>
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Markdown's inline link style:</p>
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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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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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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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emphasis. Text wrapped with one <code>*</code> or <code>_</code> will be wrapped with an
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HTML <code><em></code> tag; double <code>*</code>'s or <code>_</code>'s will be wrapped with an HTML
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<code><strong></code> tag. E.g., this input:</p>
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_single underscores_
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<p>will produce:</p>
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<pre><code><em>single asterisks</em>
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<em>single underscores</em>
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<strong>double asterisks</strong>
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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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<p>Emphasis can be used in the middle of a word:</p>
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literal asterisk or underscore.</p>
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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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<pre><code>\*this text is surrounded by literal asterisks\*
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</code></pre>
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normal paragraph. For example:</p>
|
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</code></pre>
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|
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|
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<p>will produce:</p>
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|
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|
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<pre><code><p>Use the <code>printf()</code> function.</p>
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</code></pre>
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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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<pre><code>``There is a literal backtick (`) here.``
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</code></pre>
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<p>which will produce this:</p>
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|
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<pre><code><p><code>There is a literal backtick (`) here.</code></p>
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</code></pre>
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|
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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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|
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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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|
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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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|
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<p>will produce:</p>
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|
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|
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<pre><code><p>A single backtick in a code span: <code>`</code></p>
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|
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|
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<p>A backtick-delimited string in a code span: <code>`foo`</code></p>
|
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|
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</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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|
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tags. Markdown will turn this:</p>
|
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|
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|
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<pre><code>Please don't use any `<blink>` tags.
|
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|
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</code></pre>
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|
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|
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<p>into:</p>
|
|
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|
+
|
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827
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<pre><code><p>Please don't use any <code>&lt;blink&gt;</code> tags.</p>
|
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|
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</code></pre>
|
|
829
|
+
|
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|
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<p>You can write this:</p>
|
|
831
|
+
|
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|
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<pre><code>`&#8212;` is the decimal-encoded equivalent of `&mdash;`.
|
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|
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</code></pre>
|
|
834
|
+
|
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835
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<p>to produce:</p>
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836
|
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|
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837
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<pre><code><p><code>&amp;#8212;</code> is the decimal-encoded
|
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equivalent of <code>&amp;mdash;</code>.</p>
|
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|
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</code></pre>
|
|
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|
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|
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+
<h3 id="img">Images</h3>
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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>
|
|
845
|
+
|
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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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848
|
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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>
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|
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|
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</code></pre>
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|
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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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|
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<pre><code>![Alt text][id]
|
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</code></pre>
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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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|
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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><img></code> tags.</p>
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|
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<hr />
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<h2 id="misc">Miscellaneous</h2>
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<h3 id="autolink">Automatic Links</h3>
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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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|
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<pre><code><http://example.com/>
|
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|
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</code></pre>
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<p>Markdown will turn this into:</p>
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|
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<pre><code><a href="http://example.com/">http://example.com/</a>
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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><address@example.com>
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</code></pre>
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<p>into something like this:</p>
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|
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<pre><code><a href="&#x6D;&#x61;i&#x6C;&#x74;&#x6F;:&#x61;&#x64;&#x64;&#x72;&#x65;
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&#115;&#115;&#64;&#101;&#120;&#x61;&#109;&#x70;&#x6C;e&#x2E;&#99;&#111;
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&#109;">&#x61;&#x64;&#x64;&#x72;&#x65;&#115;&#115;&#64;&#101;&#120;&#x61;
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&#109;&#x70;&#x6C;e&#x2E;&#99;&#111;&#109;</a>
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</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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<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">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 with
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literal asterisks (instead of an HTML <code><em></code> tag), you can backslashes
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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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