MARKDOWN GITHUB CODE
To write code in monospace font inside a regular text, enclose it in backticks: This is `code` inside text. And inside the word: b ***and***i which means bold ***and***italic. And it's not *un*important.Īnd to make something bold and italic, one can mix the two syntaxes: All of these are: ***bandi***, _ **bandi** _, ** _bandi_**, _ *bandi*_, * _bandi_ *, _bandi_.
To make italic, use one underscore or one asterisk, and again, inside a middle only the asterisk syntax works: This is _italic_, so is *this*. Making bold can be done by double underscores or double asterisks: This is _bold_, so is **this**.īut inside a word, only the asterisks work: **Thi**s **i**s a **GitH**ub-**flavor **ed **Markdo**wn **cheatshe**et **focusi**ng **o**n **les**s-**kno **wn **featur**es. It is achieved by adding at least two spaces to the end of the line: This is line 1. The line break syntax is less known to the Markdown world. Paragraphs are chunks of text separated by at least a blank line: This is paragraph 1. There is an alternate way of creating headings that only supports two levels: Heading Level 1 = Heading Level 2 - Paragraphs Try to use heading level 1 for the title of your document, h2 for the sections, h3 for subsections, and so on. Sites like Quicklatex make this quite easy.Similar to HTML, there are 6 headings in Markdown: # H1 # H2 # H3 # H4 # H5 # H6 If you happen to know LaTeX (or want to learn it) you could do just about any text manipulation imaginable and render it to an image. starting with or but it's often easier to use a relative path, which will load the image from the repo, relative to the Markdown document. The GitHub supported syntax is: !(path/to/image.png) If your requirements are especially unusual, you can always just inline an image. This works with GitHub (and should work anywhere else your Markdown is rendered to HTML) but is less readable when presented as raw text/Markdown. People also often reach for and tags in an attempt to render specific symbols like these:Īssuming your editor supports Unicode, you can copy and paste the characters above directly into your document.Īlternatively, you could use the hex values above in an HTML character escape. ⁿ SUPERSCRIPT LATIN SMALL LETTER N (U+207F).I've compiled a list of all the Unicode super and subscript characters I could identify in this gist.
If the superscript (or subscript) you need is of a mathematical nature, Unicode may well have you covered. I've put a few other examples here in a Gist. Curly braces ( $, and her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely garden. In LaTeX you indicate superscript with the ^ and subscript with _.
LaTeX expressions are delineated by $$ for blocks or $ for inline expressions. This gives us new way to render arbitrary text as superscript or subscript in GitHub flavoured Markdown, and it works quite well. LaTeX (New!)Īs of May 2022, GitHub supports embedding LaTeX expressions in Markdown docs directly. in a text editor) but small tags like this aren't too bad. Personally, I find HTML impairs the readable of Markdown somewhat, when working with it "bare" (eg. Embedding HTML in a Markdown document like this is well supported so this approach should work with most tools that render Markdown. The answer depends on exactly what you're trying to do, how readable you want the content to be when viewed as Markdown and where your content will be rendered: HTML TagsĪs others have said, and tags work well for arbitrary text.