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The Markdown plugin allows you to format text using a paragraph oriented subset of markdown. We add link syntax from Federated Wiki and task lists from GitHub.
See GitHub for plugin source.
This page offers an overview of those markdown features we support, and pointers to those plugins that provide support for those parts we choose not to.
A paragraph is simply one or more consecutive lines of text, separated by one or more blank lines. The markdown plugin will create a new page item when the enter key is pressed twice.
Headings are created by putting a `# ` at the beginning of the line. While ordinarily the number of `#`s indicates the header level, in Federated Wiki all headers within a page are considered to be `<h3>`.
Blockquotes are indicated using angle brackets, `> `, at the start of the line.
Write <b>Page Titles ]</b> inside of double square brackets to make an internal link to a new wiki page.
Write <b>webpage</b> inside single square brackets to make an external link to another web page. Include a second field that specifies how the link is to appear in the rendered text.
By convention external links are represented by single lower-case words that identify what kind of page one will find when clicking the link.
The image plugin should be used for images.
In regular paragraphs, you can create code span by wrapping text in backtick quotes. However, entire blocks of code are better handled by using the code plugin.
Markdown treats asterisks and underscores as indicators of emphasis. Text wrapped with one \* or \_ will be wrapped with an HTML `<em>` tag, typically shown in *italics*; while double \*'s or \_'s will be wrapped with HTML `<strong>`, typically shown in **bold**.
It is possible to prevent \* or \_ from being used to indicate emphasis by preceding it with a backslash `\*` or `\_`.
Both of the standard HTML lists are supported, together with task lists from GitHub flavoured markdown. We render list markers in the left margin of the wiki page.
1. Numbered lists use a number, followed by periods, as list markers. _**N.B.** The numbering is reset for each markdown item._