![]() ![]() Using MarkdownĪ member of a Linux user group asked if it is possible to write Markdown in WordPress. I actually prefer offline / external editors for writing articles, and I thought I should try Markdown editors. Unsurprisingly Markdown was dang easy to learn. Not only easy to memories, but also easy to write. Smaller syntax’s that you can use to format your texts any way. An example :Īnd all the way to heading six. For paragraphs, you do not have to add syntax. Normal text will turn into paragraphs on the output. Normally in HTML you have to either add for each line or use method. But in Markdown, you do not have to add any syntax for line breaks. You have to use a single asterisks for making it italic e.g “_word_”.īlock-quotes are easily doable by adding “>” to each line you want to block-quote. ![]() You can use other syntax along with block-quote to format text inside a block-quote. Adding headings, lists and text formatting is possible using normal syntax’s inside block-quotes. To make ordered lists, you can just number dot space and text. To make unordered lists, you can just add a “-” before text. You use combination of “|” and “-” to separate cells, rows, columns and headings. Typora is a Markdown editor that does not look like one. Therefore, markup languages allow for annotating a document in a syntactically distinguishable way from the text, while keeping the annotations printable.It looks like one of those focus writing apps with basic functionality. > Markup offers an alternative means to encode this signaling information by overloading certain graphic characters (see, e.g., ) with additional meanings. Source: (John Gruber, one of the co-creators of markdown) While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters - including Setext, atx, Textile, reStructuredText, Grutatext, and EtText - the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email." > "A Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. > " key design goal is readability – that the language be readable as-is, without looking like it has been marked up with tags or formatting instructions" Getting downvoted on this so I'll provide some citations: A great many of which can still be composed in a text editor and some of which are still relatively easy for a human to parse. So, in my personal opinion, if you start needing the kind of design sugar as formatted cells then you really should be using any one of the plethora of other document formats out there because you're requirement no longer fits around the core principle of markdown. The real problem with markdown is that now it has now reached the kind of critical mass where people start using it everywhere and reaching for it even when it doesn't make sense simply because it's the first thing that pops into peoples head. In fact there's a lot of stuff that Github and others have bolted onto markdown. Tables weren't even part of the original design of markdown. That's because the point of markdown is to be an overly simplistic styling convention that reads just as cleanly in clear text (eg on the terminal) as it does in formatted renderers. ![]()
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