Introducing Markdown and Pandoc: Using Markup Language and Document Converter

© Thomas Mailund 2019

T. MailundIntroducing Markdown and Pandochttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5149-2_3

3. Writing Markdown

Thomas Mailund¹ 

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Aarhus N, Denmark

 

If you have used plain text to write and share documents in the past, then you are likely to be familiar with most Markdown markup annotations already. Much of the syntax for Markdown is based on how people have written plain text documents for years. This chapter covers the basic Markdown annotations, which make up 99% of the annotations you will use regularly. The notation I present in this chapter is supported by all Markdown tools (as far as I am aware). The next chapter covers notation that is not universally supported although many tools do support the features there. All of them, ...