Markdown Introduction
These are my notes on markdown intro.
Markdown is a light markup language. It uses plain text and is meant to format
documents quickly. Readability is its main tenet. It does a little of what HTML
does but it is not a replacement. It has much fewer tags for formatting. In
fact, if markdown lacks anything you need, you can just use HTML for it.
Headings
You create different headings by prefacing them with hashes.
# header 1
## header 2
### header 3
and so on
Bold Text
Surround text you want bold with two asterisks.
**bold text**
Italics
To make certain text italic, surround it with one asterisk.
*italic text*
Bold and Italic
To make somethign bold and italic at the same time, use 3 asterisks.
***bold and italic text***
Strikethrough
To show a strikethrough, surround text in 2 dashes.
--strikethough text--
Backslash Escape
This prevents markdown from using a character as an instruction.
\# this is not a heading
Paragraphs
There is nothing special on how to make a paragraph, just put text on separate
lines.
Line Breaks
A line break is the end of one line and the beginning of another. To force a
line break, place two or more empty spaces at the end of a line and press enter.
Blockquotes
Blockquotes can contain a large amount of text that is separated from the main
text.
> This is a blockquote
Nested Block Quoting
You can nest blockquotes, which is useful in some situations.
> this is a line
>> this is another line
>>> this is a third line, all nested
Ordered List
You just use numbers to make an ordered list.
1. first
2. second
3. third
Unordered List
This is otherwise known as a bulleted list.
- item
- item
- item
Hyperlinks
To place a hyperlink, just use the address.
https://aindien.com
If you want to rename your link, do this...
[click to go to my website](https://aindien.com)
Separating Code
You can separate code from the rest of your text.
It is useful when you want to highlight your code.
This will mark inline code for you.
`inline code`
A block of code is done like this:
```
Block of code
```
Saving
Lastly, to save your document with the markdown formatting, name your file like
this:
filename.md