Markdown
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Links
- References
- Mastering MarkDown (GitHub flavor)
- Hyperpolyglot - Markdown, reStructuredText, AsciiDoc, Mediawiki, Org-mode
- Tools
- GRIP — an offline MarkDown viewer (see tip further down also)
- Markdown viewer and editor (GitHub flavor)
- mdBook Make MarkDown books
- Review
- This author advocates instead AsciiDoc (using Asciidoctor), or reStructuredText (using Sphinx).
Reference
Flavors
There are at least 3 main Markdown flavors:
- Original flavor from John Gruber.
- GitHub flavor (with eg. syntax highlighting extension).
- Pandoc flavor.
Syntax
- Links
This is a [link to Markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/).
- Bullets
* First bullet.
- Sub-bullet one.
- Another sub-bullet.
* Second bullet.
Bullets must be separated from normal paragraph with a BLANK line:
A normal paragraph.
* First bullet.
* Second bullet. No need for blank line.
Continuation line require BLANK line as well:
* First bullet.
Continuation line, but will render badly.
* Second bullet. No need for blank line.
A better way is to use
* First bullet.
<br/>Continuation line, better.
* Second bullet. No need for blank line.
Tips
Preview standard MarkDown
Use markdown package.
sudo apt install markdown
Then, for instance, using entr:
echo README.md | entr sh -c 'markdown README.md > README.html'
This will generate a new README.html every time README.md is modified.
Preview Markdown before pushing to GitHub
Use the wonderful tool GRIP — GitHub README Instant Preview.
sudo apt install grip
cd /my/repo
grip # Now, open up browser to http://localhost:6419/
Comments in Markdown
We abuse link tags [1]:
[//]: # (This may be the most platform independent comment)
Align images
To center image on GitHub [2]:
<p align="center">
<img width="460" height="300" src="http://www.fillmurray.com/460/300">
</p>
To left/right align:
<img align="left" width="100" height="100" src="http://www.fillmurray.com/100/100">
<img align="right" width="100" height="100" src="http://www.fillmurray.com/100/100">