| Description | Example: | Creates: |
| Text surrounded by asterisks or underscores will be made italic | *italics* | italics |
| Text surrounded by double asterisks will be bold | **bold** | bold |
| To create a hyperlink, surround the text you want to be the link with brackets followed by the URL in parenthesis. | linked text | |
| A line of text starting with a pound symbol will become a heading. There are six levels of heading which you can reach by adding more pound signs. | #heading 1 |
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| ##heading 2 | heading 2 |
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| You can also create a header by following it with two or more equal signs or hyphens. | heading 1 =========== |
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| heading 2 ----------- |
heading 2 |
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| A series of lines beginning with hyphens will create an unordered list. |
- item 1 - item 2 - item 3 |
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| A series of lines beginning with numbers followed by a period will create an ordered list. |
1. item 1 2. item 2 3. item 3 |
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| A line started with a greater-then symbol will identify that text as being quoted from someone else. | > quoted text | quoted text |
| Lines starting with four spaces are treated as preformatted text and will display without wrapping. |
if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!" |
if 1 * 2 < 3: |