Testing Markdown

[galadhir]

Testing writing stuff in markdown - this is a header

Here is an inspirational quote. This bit is italic and this bit is bold

I've been learning markdown here - that was a link

If it works it does seem like it's easier than html, but I am more confident with html. - this is a slightly smaller header

otoh, you're never too young to learn something new, right? - this is normal text

- that was an image

OK, I'm not impressed by how the quote turned out. I wonder if it was just hard to tell that it was different from normal text because it was not surrounded by normal text

Let's try it again and this time I will surround it with normal text as a test.

I also don't know how to decide what size I want the picture to be without html, but perhaps I should just upload the picture at the correct size.

I like how easy it is to format lists

• un-numbered ones

• like this

  1. and numbered ones
  2. like this

I think I'll get a lot of use out of that!

And the html code for the cut works fine despite this being the markdown version of the entry form.

Comments

[mistressofmuses]

Markdown *mildly* intimidates me, because I feel like I've just barely gotten a handle on my basic html tags! But... it does seem to be quite useful, ha.

[galadhir]

Yes, I don't want to get to the point where I forget how to insert a link or an image with html, but the markdown code is a lot simpler and easier to type. We'll have to see if I can remember how to do it!

[mistressofmuses]

I'll have to take an actual look at it at some point. I've heard that it is a lot simpler when you get used to it!

[galadhir]

The markdown tutorial I linked in the post above is pretty comprehensive and easy, so that might be a place to start :)

[mistressofmuses]

I have it bookmarked! :D

[ysilme]

Very useful indeed! I've been dabbling with markdown a bit as well, but no matter that it seems to be easier than html, I'm so familiar with html that I'm still sticking to it. *g* What's really bugging me, though, is the lack of underlining - or perhpas the few sites I've consulted so far simply didn't list that. Do you know if underlining is possible, or if not, why not?

[galadhir]

As far as I know, standard Markdown doesn't allow underlining. It claims that this is to avoid the underlined text being mistaken for a link. You can get plugins that allow it, but I don't know where you would get them or if they would work with DW, so that's a bust unfortunately!