TaoLib: Markdown Formatting Rules

Paragraphs

Paragraphs are divided by blank lines.
End a line with two or more spaces to force a mid-paragraph line break.

Headings

# Top Level Heading                 Alternative Top Level Heading
# Top Level Heading Variant #       =============================

## 2nd Level Heading                Alternative 2nd Level Heading
## 2nd Level Heading Variant ##     -----------------------------

### 3rd Level Heading               ### 3rd Level Heading Variant ###
#### 4th Level Heading              #### 4th Level Heading Variant ####
##### 5th Level Heading             ##### 5th Level Heading Variant #####
###### 6th Level Heading            ###### 6th Level Heading Variant ######

Links

[display text](URL)

[display text](URL "Title")

[display text](URL 'Title')

<URL>

[display text][label]

[display text][]

URL may optionally be written <URL>. With link formats 5 and 6 ("reference links"), the URL is supplied elsewhere in the document, as shown below. Link format 6 reuses the display text as the label. Labels are case-insensitive. The title may be split onto the next line with optional indenting.

[label]: URL

[label]: URL "Title"

[label]: URL 'Title'

[label]: URL (Title)

Fonts

*italic*

_italic_

**bold**

__bold__

***italic+bold***

___italic+bold___

`code`

The `code` construct disables HTML markup, so one can write, for example, `<html>` to yield <html>.

Lists

 *   bullet item
 +   bullet item
 -   bullet item
 1.  numbered item
A two-level list is created by placing additional whitespace before the */+/-/1. of the secondary items.
 *   top-level item
   * secondary item

Block Quotes

Begin each line of a paragraph with > to block quote that paragraph.
> This paragraph is indented

> > Double-indented paragraph
Begin each line with at least four spaces or one tab to produce a verbatim code block.

Tables

| Header 1     | Header 2    | Header 3      |
----------------------------------------------
| Row 1 Col 1  | Row 1 Col 2 | Row 1 Col 3   |
|:Left-aligned |:Centered   :| Right-aligned:|
|              | ← Blank   → |               |
| Row 4 Col 1  | Row 4 Col 2 | Row 4 Col 3   |
The first row is a header if followed by a horizontal rule or a blank line.

Placing : at the left, both, or right sides of a cell gives left-aligned, centered, or right-aligned text, respectively. By default, header cells are centered, and body cells are left-aligned.

The leftmost or rightmost | is required only if the first or last column, respectively, contains at least one blank cell.

Miscellaneous

In-line images are made using ![alt-text](image-URL).

Use HTML for advanced formatting such as forms.

 are supported.

Escape special characters (ex: [ ( | *) using backslash (ex: \[ \( \| \*).

A line consisting of ---, ***, or ___ is a horizontal rule. Spaces and extra -/*/_ are allowed.

See daringfireball.net for additional information.

See this page's Markdown source for complex examples.

Special Features For Fossil

In hyperlinks, if the URL begins with / then the root of the Fossil repository is prepended. This allows for repository-relative hyperlinks.

For documents that begin with a top-level heading (ex: # heading #), the heading is omitted from the body of the document and becomes the document title displayed at the top of the Fossil page.