Markdown

A Crash Course..

Author: Zavair

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Right, I don't know whether you'd be into this... but I just thought I'll give you a few pointers on that .mdx we save for zandh. There's a couple of main reasons for why I wanted to upload this.

1. .mdx stands for Markdown. Its essentially a very user-friendly type of marking up language for raw text online. Its built to apply formatting to plain text documents and just knowing a bit about it and just having that in your back pocket is a cool little thing, considering that it currently is by far the MOST widely used markup language in the world today. It's literally used for everything these days. Its extremely portable... is fully independent, open source and above all future-proof, meaning no matter what happens... servers can crash down, applications and web servers can stop working... but your Markdown-formatted text will always remain readable and easy to port.
2. Just using it as an excuse to encourage the likelihood of getting to hear from you from time to time. :D

You know language editors like WYSIWYG editors (such as in Microsoft Word etc) have buttons and tabs and options to format text or for when you wish to make some edits to a document, or underline something or make something pop a bit etc etc... Markdown language does all that plus 100x times more but it does so with the purpose of the computer being able to understand what you're writing in comparison to MsWord where the document is formatted for the purpose of other humans being able to understand/read it.

So in Markdown, instead of using a visual interface, we insert special syntax within the text to indicate formatting changes.

For example, say you wish to create a heading... On MsWord etc as you can simply highlight/select it and then click on a tab/button etc. But with Markdown you place a hash symbol before the text and turn it into a heading.. (e.g., # Heading One). Similarly, to make text bold, you enclose it with double asterisks (e.g., this text is bold).

With that in mind, I thought I'll just send u a few useful examples of syntax that you can use in the future... for times that you wish to add a heading or a picture or something else to anything that u wish to add to zandh.

Headings

One Hash = Biggest Heading.

Two Hashes = Slightly smaller Heading.

Three Hashes = Slightly smaller than two hash headings.

Four Hashes = Slightly smaller than three hash headings

Paragraphs

To create a paragraph just add a blank line to separate one or more lines of text. (Press Enter to create a paragraph)

Example:

I really like using Markdown.

I think I'll use it to format all of my documents from now on.

Bold Text

To bold text, add two asterisks or underscores before and after a word or phrase.

Example:

I love the woman's hand-drawn doodles.

Lists

So to create a list of some type.... add line items with numbers followed by periods.

Example:

1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3