Short overview of Markdown syntax

Markdown is a lightweight and easy-to-use syntax for styling web content that is getting more and more popular across the internet.

You control the display of the document; formatting words as bold or italic, adding images, and creating lists are just a few of the things we can do with Markdown. Mostly, Markdown is just regular text with a few non-alphabetic characters thrown in, like # or *.

Basic text formatting

New paragraphs are started by leaving a blank line in the input.

It is easy to make words **bold** or *italic*.

Headings are written as

• # Main heading
• ## Secondary heading
• ...
• ###### All the way down to a very minor heading

Lists

Numbered lists can be written simply as

1. First item
2. Second item
3. And so on

Lists without numbers (bullet point lists) are

* written
* like
* this

Dashes work just as well as stars, and lists can be nested. Just indent each sublist by two spaces

1. First item
  - with subtiems
  - like these
2. Back to the main list
3. For a while
  * sublist
    * subsublist

Links and images

Links can be added using [this syntax](http://google.com), and images are added with almost the exact same syntax, just add a ! first: