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Simple plain-text markup language whose processor produces HTML.

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Strikethrough with GitHub Markdown

Using HTML tags is supposed to work with GitHub Markdown but, in particular, <s>text</s> is not working for me. It used to work on the now deprecated live preview page, but not on preview ...
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How can Google Docs and markdown play nice?

I love Google Docs. I write notes, essays, correspondences, invoices, journal entries, business ideas, planning documents- everything on there. I also love the markdown format. I'm a programmer so ...
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Is it possible to use strikethrough (<s>, <strike>, <del>) in Trello?

Trello accepts Markdown in card descriptions and it even helpfully links to the Markdown syntax page. That page mentions that "for any markup that is not covered by Markdown’s syntax, you simply use ...
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Setting up Gmail to use Markdown to read and send out emails

I've become rather fond of Markdown and think it would be rather well suited to emails. How do I set up Gmail to allow me to format reading and sending emails in Markdown? Is this even possible? If ...
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Can a card in Trello display a table?

The markdown syntax says that you can use regular HTML and specifically mentions <table> as being possible. The only restrictions being that you have blank lines before and after the table, and ...
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Markdown formatting in Google Keep?

Is it possible to use Markdown formatting in Google Keep?
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Markdown to insert and display an image on GitHub repo

According to the GitHub documentation, the Markdown syntax for inserting an image is: ![GitHub Logo](/images/logo.png) Format: ![Alt Text](url) Following their example syntax, I can't seem to be ...
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Google Sites: Markdown support?

My organization is interested in migrating our local Wiki from the office into Google Sites. I see that Google Sites supports some sort of Wiki interface, but I don't really like the GUI editor. Is it ...
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Markdown for Blogger [closed]

Is it possible to have Markdown integration for Blogger? How can I do it if possible? Is there some sort of plugin or JavaScript trick that I can use to modify my template to make it support Markdown?
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How do I write an asterisk at the beginning of a line in wiki syntax without transforming into a list item?

When using wiki syntax, if I put an asterisk (*) at the beginning of a line, it gets transformed into a unordered list. How is it possible to have the asterisk to remain as it is when at the beginning ...
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How to format footnotes with Markdown on Tumblr?

I'm not sure I can get proper documentation on this, I've been to this tumblr help center and this discussion on Meta SO about Markdown footnotes, I saw interesting comment from Arjan that Drupal made ...
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How do I create a checklist in a slack message?

I'm trying to create a task list for myself in a private chat with my supervisor on Slack. I'm pretty familiar with markdown, and I thought that Slack supported it too. On GitHub, you can create tasks ...
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Looking for a pastebin supporting Markdown [closed]

I have gotten used to the text editor and format of Stack Exchange (Markdown), which is much better to describe a question than mail editor. Sometimes I want to describe a problem/question to a ...
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How to format a sub list with Markdown on Tumblr?

I tried this 1. Bullet one. 1.1. Bullet one. one. 1.2. Bullet one. two. 2. Bullet two And that doesn't work. I'm not sure if it's been documented here and here :-/ How to format a sub list with ...
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Can GitHub Pages render asciidoc?

GitHub repositories can render/preview asciidoc (.adoc) documents, apparently using asciidoctor. But I can't seem to make pages served by GitHub Pages (GitHub's Jekyll-based service that serves ...
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What Markdown tags are previewed by Dropbox?

Dropbox supports preview of Markdown, but not all tags. I have inferred that it supports most, perhaps all, of the Markdown-specific syntax, but not HTML tags. However, that level of "documentation" ...
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How can I embed gist snippets using Tumblr markdown?

I post using Tumblr's markdown support. I've tried embedding my gist snippets as links, etc. but can't seem to figure out the right combination. If I post using html, the gist links work fine. I would ...
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Can I turn off Markdown in Trello?

I would prefer not to use Markdown in the Card Descriptions in Trello as I often use include words that contain underscores. Is there a setting to turn Markdown off?
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Markdown in Activity posts?

Card descriptions in Trello can accept markdown syntax, but Activity comments seem to be plain text only. Is there some setting I can change to allow Markdown in activity comments as well?
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HTML, Markdown or Textile support in LinkedIn discussion groups

Does LinkedIn support HTML, Markdown or Textile in their discussion groups? I wrote a long comment in a discussion group on LinkedIn that would have been much easier to read if I could give it some ...
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Highlight deleted and added lines with GitHub Markdown

How can I highlight deleted and added lines like in this comment? How do I make it look like a git diff? Do I have to use HTML? Or is there some tricky syntax like strikethrough?
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Formatting addresses in Trello with single line spacing

How do I use Markdown in Trello to format a simple address where address items are not all on the same line?. Here's an example address I want to format: George Smith 27 Smith Street Smithsville ...
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Using markdown in Trello to populate email subject and body

I am trying to populate an email address with a subject line and body text like this. This works just for the email [link](mailto:[email protected]) but once I start adding the subject it does not ...
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Formatting C# code for wiki syntax

How can I format my C# code so it displays correctly in our internal Wiki? We are using MediaWiki although I assume most wiki syntax is the same.
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Trello preview for markdown outcome?

When composing Trello card content using markdown syntax, I need to see the preview of the outcome content similarly to how we do here on Stack Exchange. Is it possible and how to add that?
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How to use markdown in card description? [closed]

I cannot figure out how to use Markdown to have formated text in the Trello card description. Please give some clue as to how to achieve this.
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Special characters in GitHub markdown code blocks

Markdown automatically escapes ampersands and angle brackets within a code block, so how is it possible to use special characters that require escaping for example: λ ? I know that one ...
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Lightweight (markdown or writeroom-like) free online text editor [closed]

Is there a document hosting service, allowing editing the documents using only Markdown or just raw text? Requirements: "web 2.0" interface (quick saving with a shortcut, probably Ctrl-S; also auto-...
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Can I include Retina images in GitHub files?

Is it currently possible to specify a Retina image with the current GitHub-flavoured Markdown? Or an image size, which would let standard resolution devices scale the resource? It's not a big deal, ...
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Trello now sanitizing URLs / disallowing custom url protocols?

Up until about yesterday, I was able to add markdown links to a local application within the description area of my Trello Cards. The application uses a custom url protocol to produce a url like the ...
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How to output raw code in github's wiki?

I want to explain my wiki users how to use internal links. However, when I write [[Linktext|Link to an internal site]] with two `` (code dashes) around them, it gets displayed as a link, but ...
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In Trello, how do I insert an HTML entity in a card comment?

According to the markdown syntax guide you can just insert HTML entities directly (e.g &copy; for ©). However, HTML entities don't seem to work in Trello comments (which use markdown)—the ...
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How to do bold and italic formatting in Facebook Chat

A follow-up to Text formatting enhancements on Facebook, how does one create bold and italic formatting in Facebook chat? Is it possible to provide emphasis within messages? I think (maybe I'm going ...
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How to change the Edit mode in stackedit.io to right to left only at certain rows?

I am using the markdown editor StackEdit. I want my article to be written in 2 different modes: Certain rows to be written from right-to-left and some others to be left-to-right. Is there such a ...
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How to add TWO blank lines to comment in Trello

What is the easiest way to add two blank lines to a comment on a card? If I do it manually, only one shows, and <br> doesn't seem to work either.
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line breaking in trello format is following markdown or not?

Recently I'm trying Trello to orgnize my project with friends, I'm happy that it support markdown, because I'm also using it to write my blog and all other docs. But now I notice that, when I input ...
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How do I prevent auto-linkification in BitBucket commit comments?

BitBucket auto-linkifies some text in your comment comments, like issue numbers after the word "issue" and what it thinks are changest identifiers/hashes. Now, I'm writing this table which has a ...
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Using GitHub markdown image tag but image is not displaying inline

I have a README.md in my GitHub repository and I have an image tag in it that looks like this: ![Wireframe001](wireframes/wireframe001.png?raw=true "Wireframe001") and I can confirm that I have a ...
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Can't get markdown to work on wordpress.com

I switched to Wordpress as Blogger was mangling my markup (some bug spewing <br> everywhere). Now I noticed Wordpress supports markdown, which is even better. I enabled Markdown following the ...
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GitHub markdown shortcut to treat text as code?

While writing an issue in a GitHub repository, how can I: Select a piece of text And press something so that it is treated as code? For example, here in Stack Exchange I can select a piece of text ...
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What language tag do I use in GitHub Flavored Markdown for a .gitignore code block/excerpt?

I have a README.md in a repository on GitHub that shows a code block of an example .gitignore. I know that one can mark a code block with a language tag in GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM). For example, ...
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How do I open/edit/convert Markdown documents in Office OneDrive?

We have a bunch of text files in Markdown format and we want to share them with the relevant members of the team using Office OneDrive. As far as text file formats, OneDrive only seems to understand ...
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I cannot find a decent markdown editor that supports google drive

I really like to use Markdown, it is MUCH faster than fighting stupid word processing software (be it Word, Google Docs, Libre Office... all of them are mostly terrible) Except... Seemly noone ...
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How do I link to a local file in Trello?

I'd like to create links to files stored locally in Trello, e.g. C:\my_docs\myfile.c I've read that you can use Markdown language in the description field of a card, but in testing this, I've had no ...
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How do I make a phone number a clickable link in the Trello iOS app?

Is there a way to do Markdown in Trello so that if you click the phone number on a card on the iPhone it will actually call the number? I just realized that you can use Markdown in order to make URLs ...
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What URL escaping does GitHub markdown expect?

I have a markdown file checked into GitHub, and in this file I want to link to the following URL: https://query.wikidata.org/#%23 Diplomatic missions with no operator.%0ASELECT DISTINCT%0A%09%...
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How to use Jekyll locally to create/edit posts on remote WordPress? [closed]

How do I use Jekyll on my local machine to create/edit posts on my remote WordPress blog? More specifically: I want to write posts in plain text, use Jekyll's markup parser to create HTML, and then ...
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How to keep relative links in GitHub subproject consistent in npmjs.org interface

The code of the npm package I'm developing belongs to a bigger repo, which contains a lot of different stuff. There's a README.md file with relative links to the documentation contained in the same ...
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Blogging advice, source code [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to post source code in Blogger? I try to blog in blogger.com. it's ok for text and images, but every time I want to put source code, it's a pain... Here in stackexchange ...
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Two types of Markdown files (?) in Google Drive

I noticed that in my Google Drive, some Markdown files are marked with a blue icon and are indexed: Those with the icon of StackEdit (which is no longer even integrated into my Drive) are not indexed ...
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