Markdown Syntax

Markdown is a syntax for formatting documents.

For full details see Daring Fireball.net.

This page does not detail everything you can do with Markdown.

Paragraphs

Paragraphs are separated by one or more blank lines. Make sure there are no spaces at the beginning of the line.

Bulleted list

Start each line with a space followed by an asterix. For example,

 * List item 1
 * List item 2
 * List item 3

Numbered list

Start each line with a space, followed by a number and then a period. For example,

 1. List item 1
 1. List item 2
 1. List item 3

Note that it is fine to leave each of the numbers as 1. When you view the page they will be correctly numbered.

Bold

To put a word or phrase in bold put two asterixes before and after the word/phrase. For example,

**bold**

Headings

To make a heading put a # at the beginning of the line. If you put ## then that will be a second level heading. You can use upto six #.

Links to other pages

To create a link to a page which is a WikiWord just type in the name of the page.

To create a link to a page like Quotations that is not a WikiWord, enclose the name in double square brackets, like [[Quotations]].

For a nice rendering of WikiWord links, you can also use a combination of brackets and spaces like [[My Page Of Stuff]] to access the page named MyPageOfStuff.

You can provide different text to display for the link, for example [[PriorityOne|High priority todo items]] would show the page link as High priority todo items.

If you want to include a WikiWord but not have it turned into a link then put a / just before it (e.g. /WikiWord)

Web links

To put a link to a website (which will be opened by Safari) put the text you want to appear on the page between [ ] and then the website URL between ( ). For example,

[Google](http://www.google.com)

If you don’t mind what appears on the page being the same as the URL you can put the URL between < >. For example,

<http://www.appsonthemove.com>

Horizontal rules

If you would like a horizontal line on the page put,

***

at the start of a line - followed by nothing else.

HTML

You can include most HTML tags in your page for more complex formatting.

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