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You may be missing the full path/location to the image you want to include in your Markdown file.
The example given is a relative path, where the image rests on the same server as the file. In the help, it would assume the image is actually located at:
https://github.com/images/logo.png
But that is not a valid file or location.
In order to make sure you ...
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I've created a Chrome, Firefox, and Thunderbird extension that allows you to write email in Markdown (in Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, or Thunderbird) and then convert to HTML before sending.
If someone sends you raw Markdown it won't render it for you, but it lets you send rendered Markdown to others.
Hope it helps.
https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here
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I think a better method is to use the 'nowiki' tag. This is generic and does not rely on knowing character codes, plus your text is more readable.
<nowiki>*</nowiki> will display as an asterisk at the start of the sentence.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting
Now you can display any special characters you like!
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Non-standard protocols were disabled as a security precaution, to prevent the use of dangerous URIs (e.g. javascript:) from being rendered.
See https://github.com/evilstreak/markdown-js/pull/52 for a pull request with more details.
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Instead of using the HTML entity, you can insert the character itself in Trello list titles, card titles and descriptions (and even comments, which do not support Markdown). Usually, when I need a special character, I do a web search to find the a website that uses the sought character, copy it (CTRL/CMD+C) and paste it where I need it (CTRL/CMD+V). That's ...
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You cannot disable Markdown in card descriptions in Trello. However, Markdown allows you to use backslash escapes to generate literal characters which would otherwise have special meaning in Markdown’s formatting syntax. For example, if you wanted to surround a word with literal underscores, you can use backslashes before the underscores, like this:
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In response to the answer above:
As of January 30th, 2013, GitHub now allow relative links.
Make sure that you append ?raw=true to the end of the URL, though. Here is an example:
Due to the way GitHub handles URL's, if you do not append ?raw=true to the source URL your browser will attempt to ...
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