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<h1 class="title">Quick Introduction to Markdown</h1>
<h2>
Niraj Dudani
</h2>
<h2>January 2, 2013</h2>
<div id="TOC"
><ul
><li
><a href="#introduction"
>Introduction</a
></li
><li
><a href="#converting-to-html"
>Converting to HTML</a
></li
><li
><a href="#examples"
>Examples</a
><ul
><li
><a href="#lists-emphasis-etc."
>Lists, emphasis, etc.</a
></li
><li
><a href="#quoting-text-code-etc."
>Quoting text, code, etc.</a
></li
><li
><a href="#linking-images-and-tables"
>Linking, images and tables</a
></li
></ul
></li
><li
><a href="#conclusion"
>Conclusion</a
></li
><li
><a href="#footnotes"
>Footnotes</a
></li
></ul
></div
>
<div id="introduction"
><h1
><a href="#TOC"
>Introduction</a
></h1
><p
>This document is written in Markdown<sup
><a href="#fn1" class="footnoteRef" id="fnref1"
>1</a
></sup
>. Here is the philosophy behind this format:</p
><blockquote
><p
>A Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions.</p
></blockquote
><p
>For MOOSE documentation, we use Pandoc<sup
><a href="#fn2" class="footnoteRef" id="fnref2"
>2</a
></sup
> to convert from Markdown to HTML. Pandoc adds some nice things to Markdown, like tables and footnotes.</p
></div
><div id="converting-to-html"
><h1
><a href="#TOC"
>Converting to HTML</a
></h1
><p
>To convert this document to HTML, run the command in the <code
>build</code
> script included in this directory. This command also requests <code
>pandoc</code
> to generate a table-of-contents for this document.</p
><p
>To install <code
>pandoc</code
> on Ubuntu, simply issue:</p
><pre
><code
>sudo apt-get install pandoc
</code
></pre
></div
><div id="examples"
><h1
><a href="#TOC"
>Examples</a
></h1
><p
>In the following subsections, we look at a few examples.</p
><div id="lists-emphasis-etc."
><h2
><a href="#TOC"
>Lists, emphasis, etc.</a
></h2
><p
>This is a bullet-list of some things that Markdown can do:</p
><ul
><li
><p
>This is <em
>emphasis</em
>.</p
></li
><li
><p
>This is <strong
>stronger emphasis</strong
>.</p
></li
><li
><p
>You can add <sup
>superscript</sup
> / <sub
>subscript</sub
> / <span style="text-decoration: line-through;"
>strikeout</span
>.</p
></li
><li
><p
>You can add <code
>verbatim text</code
> inline. This is useful for <code
>variables</code
>, <code
>functions()</code
>, etc.</p
></li
></ul
></div
><div id="quoting-text-code-etc."
><h2
><a href="#TOC"
>Quoting text, code, etc.</a
></h2
><p
>To quote text, use <code
>></code
>, as in email:</p
><blockquote
><p
><strong
>Rock Story</strong
><br
/> -- <em
>Dik Browne</em
></p
><p
>LE: What crazy mixed-up rocks!<br
/>HH: Quiet, stupid!</p
><p
>HH: You're in a very special place... Full of age and mystery...<br
/>LE: No kidding!</p
><p
>LE: <strong
>Wow! Crazy!</strong
> What is it?<br
/>HH: It's a monument!</p
><p
>HH: Thousands of people slaved for years to drag those stones here and put them in place!<br
/>LE: Why?</p
><p
>HH: For their leader! When you're a big shot, you do that so people will always remember you!<br
/> That's called <strong
>immortality!</strong
><br
/>LE: <strong
>Wow!</strong
></p
><p
>LE: Who was he?<br
/>HH: Nobody knows...</p
></blockquote
><p
>If you're lazy, a single <code
>></code
> is enough:</p
><blockquote
><p
><strong
>The Purist</strong
><br
/> -- <em
>Ogden Nash</em
><br
/><br
/>I give you now Professor Twist,<br
/>A conscientious scientist,<br
/>Trustees exclaimed, "He never bungles!"<br
/>And sent him off to distant jungles.<br
/>Camped on a tropic riverside,<br
/>One day he missed his loving bride.<br
/>She had, the guide informed him later,<br
/>Been eaten by an alligator.<br
/>Professor Twist could not but smile.<br
/>"You mean," he said, "a crocodile."</p
></blockquote
><p
>At any time,<br
/>end lines with<br
/>2 spaces<br
/>to retain<br
/>line-endings (as done in the examples above).</p
><p
>Insert code using 4 spaces:</p
><pre
><code
>echo "Sanitizing..."
rm -rf /
</code
></pre
><p
>or a few tildes:</p
><table class="sourceCode"
><tr
><td class="lineNumbers" title="Click to toggle line numbers" onclick="with (this.firstChild.style) { display = (display == '') ? 'none' : '' }"
><pre
>10<br
/>11<br
/>12<br
/>13<br
/>14</pre
></td
><td class="sourceCode"
><pre class="sourceCode python"
><code
><span class="Keyword DefinitionKeyword"
>def</span
><span class="Normal NormalText"
> </span
><span class="Normal"
>factorial</span
><span class="Normal Operator"
>(</span
><span class="Normal NormalText"
> n </span
><span class="Normal Operator"
>)</span
><span class="Normal NormalText"
>:</span
><br
/><span class="Normal NormalText"
> </span
><span class="Keyword FlowControlKeyword"
>if</span
><span class="Normal NormalText"
> </span
><span class="Normal Operator"
>(</span
><span class="Normal NormalText"
> n </span
><span class="Normal Operator"
><=</span
><span class="Normal NormalText"
> </span
><span class="DecVal Int"
>1</span
><span class="Normal NormalText"
> </span
><span class="Normal Operator"
>)</span
><span class="Normal NormalText"
>:</span
><br
/><span class="Normal NormalText"
> </span
><span class="Keyword FlowControlKeyword"
>return</span
><span class="Normal NormalText"
> </span
><span class="DecVal Int"
>1</span
><br
/><span class="Normal NormalText"
> </span
><span class="Keyword FlowControlKeyword"
>else</span
><span class="Normal NormalText"
>:</span
><br
/><span class="Normal NormalText"
> </span
><span class="Keyword FlowControlKeyword"
>return</span
><span class="Normal NormalText"
> n </span
><span class="Normal Operator"
>*</span
><span class="Normal NormalText"
> </span
><span class="Normal"
>factorial</span
><span class="Normal Operator"
>(</span
><span class="Normal NormalText"
> n </span
><span class="Normal Operator"
>-</span
><span class="Normal NormalText"
> </span
><span class="DecVal Int"
>1</span
><span class="Normal NormalText"
> </span
><span class="Normal Operator"
>)</span
><br
/></code
></pre
></td
></tr
></table
></div
><div id="linking-images-and-tables"
><h2
><a href="#TOC"
>Linking, images and tables</a
></h2
><p
>You can link to <a href="http://www.zombo.com/"
>an external website</a
>, or to <a href="#introduction"
>a section</a
> on the same page.</p
><p
>You can insert images and have captions for them. Here an image has been sandwiched between 2 horizontal rules:</p
><hr
/><div class="figure"
><img src="images/purkinje.png" title="You can add alt-text too!" alt="<em
>Purkinje cell in MOOSE</em
>"
/><p class="caption"
><em
>Purkinje cell in MOOSE</em
></p
></div
><hr
/><p
>Tables can have headers:</p
><table
><thead
><tr class="header"
><th align="right"
>Right</th
><th align="left"
>Left</th
><th align="center"
>Center</th
><th align="left"
>Default</th
></tr
></thead
><tbody
><tr class="odd"
><td align="right"
>12</td
><td align="left"
>12</td
><td align="center"
>12</td
><td align="left"
>12</td
></tr
><tr class="even"
><td align="right"
>123</td
><td align="left"
>123</td
><td align="center"
>123</td
><td align="left"
>123</td
></tr
><tr class="odd"
><td align="right"
>1</td
><td align="left"
>1</td
><td align="center"
>1</td
><td align="left"
>1</td
></tr
></tbody
></table
><p
>or not:</p
><table
><tbody
><tr class="odd"
><td align="center"
>♜</td
><td align="center"
>♞</td
><td align="center"
>♝</td
><td align="center"
>♛</td
><td align="center"
>♚</td
><td align="center"
>♝</td
><td align="center"
>♞</td
><td align="center"
>♜</td
></tr
><tr class="even"
><td align="center"
>♟</td
><td align="center"
>♟</td
><td align="center"
>♟</td
><td align="center"
>♟</td
><td align="center"
>♟</td
><td align="center"
>♟</td
><td align="center"
>♟</td
><td align="center"
>♟</td
></tr
><tr class="odd"
><td align="center"
>◻</td
><td align="center"
>◼</td
><td align="center"
>◻</td
><td align="center"
>◼</td
><td align="center"
>◻</td
><td align="center"
>◼</td
><td align="center"
>◻</td
><td align="center"
>◼</td
></tr
><tr class="even"
><td align="center"
>◼</td
><td align="center"
>◻</td
><td align="center"
>◼</td
><td align="center"
>◻</td
><td align="center"
>◼</td
><td align="center"
>◻</td
><td align="center"
>◼</td
><td align="center"
>◻</td
></tr
><tr class="odd"
><td align="center"
>◻</td
><td align="center"
>◼</td
><td align="center"
>◻</td
><td align="center"
>◼</td
><td align="center"
>◻</td
><td align="center"
>◼</td
><td align="center"
>◻</td
><td align="center"
>◼</td
></tr
><tr class="even"
><td align="center"
>◼</td
><td align="center"
>◻</td
><td align="center"
>◼</td
><td align="center"
>◻</td
><td align="center"
>◼</td
><td align="center"
>◻</td
><td align="center"
>◼</td
><td align="center"
>◻</td
></tr
><tr class="odd"
><td align="center"
>♙</td
><td align="center"
>♙</td
><td align="center"
>♙</td
><td align="center"
>♙</td
><td align="center"
>♙</td
><td align="center"
>♙</td
><td align="center"
>♙</td
><td align="center"
>♙</td
></tr
><tr class="even"
><td align="center"
>♖</td
><td align="center"
>♘</td
><td align="center"
>♗</td
><td align="center"
>♕</td
><td align="center"
>♔</td
><td align="center"
>♗</td
><td align="center"
>♘</td
><td align="center"
>♖</td
></tr
></tbody
></table
></div
></div
><div id="conclusion"
><h1
><a href="#TOC"
>Conclusion</a
></h1
><p
>Markdown and Pandoc have many more features. For these, go to the links in the footnotes.</p
></div
><div id="footnotes"
><h1
><a href="#TOC"
>Footnotes</a
></h1
></div
><div class="footnotes"
><hr
/><ol
><li id="fn1"
><p
><a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics"
>Link to Markdown website</a
> <a href="#fnref1" class="footnoteBackLink" title="Jump back to footnote 1">↩</a></p
></li
><li id="fn2"
><p
><a href="http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html"
>Link to Pandoc website</a
> <a href="#fnref2" class="footnoteBackLink" title="Jump back to footnote 2">↩</a></p
></li
></ol
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