Typography & Markdown Guide

Headings

Headings from h2 through h6 are available. An h1 is reserved for the article title and is automatically rendered.

Heading Two

Heading Three

Heading Four

Heading Five

Heading Six

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Paragraphs

This is a standard paragraph. Writing in markdown is simple, natural, and easy to read — even in its raw form. Each paragraph is separated by a blank line.

Here is a second paragraph to show spacing between blocks of text. You can write as much or as little as you like within a single paragraph. The text will wrap automatically.

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Emphasis

This is bold text and this is also bold text.

This is italic text and this is also italic text.

This is strikethrough text.

You can combine emphasis: bold and italic or bold and italic together.

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Blockquotes

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything.

— Aldous Huxley

Nested blockquotes:

This is the first level of quoting.

This is a nested blockquote.

Back to the first level.

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Lists

Unordered List

• Item one
• Item two
  • Nested item one
  • Nested item two
• Item three

Ordered List

1. First item
2. Second item
   1. Nested first item
   2. Nested second item
3. Third item

Task List

• Write the poem
• Edit the poem
• Publish the poem

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Links

This is an inline link.

This is an inline link with a title.

URLs can be written directly: https://example.com

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Images

Images can be included with alt text:

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Code

Inline code: Use the print() function to output text.

Fenced code block:

def hello():
    print("Hello, world!")

hello()

function greet(name) {
  return `Hello, ${name}!`;
}

console.log(greet('Isabelle'));

<article class="prose">
  <h1>My Poem</h1>
  <p>Words that breathe.</p>
</article>

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Tables

Title	Author	Year
Milk and Honey	Rupi Kaur	2014
The Sun and Her Flowers	Rupi Kaur	2017
Devotions	Mary Oliver	2017

Right-aligned and centered columns:

Left Aligned	Center Aligned	Right Aligned
Content	Content	Content
Words	Words	Words
Text	Text	Text

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Horizontal Rules

Three or more hyphens, asterisks, or underscores create a horizontal rule:

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Line Breaks

For poetry and writing that needs
deliberate line breaks,
end a line with two spaces
before pressing enter.

Or use a backslash:
at the end of
each line.

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Footnotes

Here is a sentence with a footnote¹.

And another one².

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Definition Lists

Term

Definition of the term.

Poetry

A literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.

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Abbreviations

The HTML specification is maintained by the W3C.

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Subscript and Superscript

H₂O is water.

X² is X squared.

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Keyboard Input

Press Ctrl + C to copy.

Press Cmd + S to save.

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Mark / Highlight

This is highlighted text for emphasis.

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Summary

This page demonstrates the full range of available markdown syntax. Use it as a reference when writing your poems and notes.

Footnotes

1. This is the first footnote. ↩

2. This is the second footnote with more detail. ↩