Hi gang - quick question, any recommendations for a comprehensive reference for markdown? Yes, I’ve searched but haven’t found anything satisfactory.
Thanks in advance!
The thing is that there is not much to learn.
One option is:
From John Gruber himself:
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics
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Keep in mind that some formatting you might expect is not available in standard Markdown. If you need those formats, you’ll have to use a flavor of MD that has extended features. MultiMarkdown (MMD) and Github-flavored MD are two popular ones you may run across.
From MMD‘s site:
MultiMarkdown adds these features to the basic Markdown syntax:
- footnotes
- tables
- citations and bibliography (works best in LaTeX using BibTeX)
- math support
- automatic cross-referencing ability
- smart typography, with support for multiple languages
- image attributes
- table and image captions
- definition lists
- glossary entries (LaTeX only)
- document metadata (e.g.
title,author, etc.)
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If you’re an R user (or not), see also rmarkdown, bookdown, thesisdown, blogdown, and probably others.
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sigh
Brett Terpstra and I had written a nice¹ one … maybe not fully comprehensive but we aimed for the 90% of the stuff that 95% of people would need to know to get “good” at Markdown.
Of course now it’s gone because TUAW died.
¹ (IMO.)
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like the footnote! neat.