Unordered lists start each item with a *.

Lists must be preceded by a blank line (or block element).

: path/or/url/to.jpg 'Optional Title' Lists !(path/or/url/to.jpg 'Optional Title') Reference style If the link text itself would make a good id, you can link like this, then on it’s own line anywhere else in the file: Make a link then on it’s own line anywhere else in the file: Sometimes it looks too messy to include big long urls inline, or you want to keep all your urls together. ( 'Title') (The title is optional) Reference style Perhaps you want to some link text like this: Macdown Website Just put angle brackets around an email and it becomes clickable: thing with urls: Strong: **Strong** or _Strong_ (Command-B)Įmphasize: *Emphasize* or _Emphasize_ 1 (Command-I) Headers (like this one!)

To force a line break, put two spaces and a newline (return) at the end of the line. If you already know markdown, and want to jump straight to learning about the fancier things I can do, I suggest you skip to the Markdown preference pane. The Basicsīefore I tell you about all the extra syntaxes and capabilities I have, I’ll introduce you to the basics of standard markdown. You can configure various application (that’s me!) behaviors in the General preference pane. You can customize the editor window to you liking in the Editor preferences pane: You can specify extra HTML rendering options through the Rendering preference pane. But I can do so much more! Various popular but non-standard syntaxes can be turned on/off from the Markdown preference pane. I support all the original Markdown syntaxes. I render your Markdown contents real-time into HTML, and display them in a preview panel. MacDown is created as a simple-to-use editor for Markdown documents.

The original Markdown syntax specification can be found here. Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax created by John Gruber, aiming to provide a easy-to-read and feasible markup. Hello there! I’m MacDown, the open source Markdown editor for OS X.

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