.
They are also obfuscated so that email harvesting spam robots hopefully won't get them.
Lists
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* This is a bulleted list
* Great for shopping lists
- You can also use hyphens
+ Or plus symbols
The above is an "unordered" list. Now, on for a bit of order.
1. Numbered lists are also easy
2. Just start with a number
3738762. However, the actual number doesn't matter when converted to HTML.
1. This will still show up as 4.
You might want a few advanced lists:
- This top-level list is wrapped in paragraph tags
- This generates an extra space between each top-level item.
- You do it by adding a blank line
- This nested list also has blank lines between the list items.
- How to create nested lists
1. Start your regular list
2. Indent nested lists with four spaces
3. Further nesting means you should indent with four more spaces
* This line is indented with eight spaces.
- List items can be quite lengthy. You can keep typing and either continue
them on the next line with no indentation.
- Alternately, if that looks ugly, you can also
indent the next line a bit for a prettier look.
- You can put large blocks of text in your list by just indenting with four spaces.
This is formatted the same as code, but you can inspect the HTML
and find that it's just wrapped in a `` tag and *won't* be shown
as preformatted text.
You can keep adding more and more paragraphs to a single
list item by adding the traditional blank line and then keep
on indenting the paragraphs with four spaces. You really need
to only indent the first line, but that looks ugly.
- Lists support blockquotes
> Just like this example here. By the way, you can
> nest lists inside blockquotes!
> - Fantastic!
- Lists support preformatted text
You just need to indent eight spaces.
Even More
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Horizontal Rule
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If you need a horizontal rule you just need to put at least three hyphens, asterisks, or underscores on a line by themselves. You can also even put spaces between the characters.
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Those three all produced horizontal lines. Keep in mind that three hyphens under any text turns that text into a heading, so add a blank like if you use hyphens.
Images
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Images work exactly like links, but they have exclamation points in front. They work with references and titles too.
![Google Logo](http://www.google.com/images/errors/logo_sm.gif) and ![Happy].
[Happy]: http://www.wpclipart.com/smiley/simple_smiley/smiley_face_simple_green_small.png ("Smiley face")
Inline HTML
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If markdown is too limiting, you can just insert your own crazy HTML. Span-level HTML can *still* use markdown. Block level elements must be separated from text by a blank line and must not have any spaces before the opening and closing HTML.
It is a pity, but markdown does **not** work in here for most markdown parsers. [Marked] handles it pretty well.