Markdown: A Complete Guide

By Nehal Khan

Are you tired of the complex tools for writing and formatting your text content? If you work with any form of text content like notes, documents, emails, documentation, blog posts (static web pages), or books, and if you're ready to transform your approach to writing, then this book Markdown: A Complete Guide is just for you.

 

Unlock the power of Markdown and transform your writing and content creation experience with Markdown: A Complete Guide. Whether you're a seasoned developer, a blogger, or a content creator with no prior experience in programming, this book is your ultimate companion for tapping into the simplicity and efficiency of the Markdown language.

 

In this detailed guide, you will learn:

• ? Overview of Markdown language and its importance.
• ? How the Markdown language works internally.
• ? What are the different things that you can do with Markdown?
• ⚙️ How to get started with the markdown language and the required tools.
• ? Clear and concise explanations of the syntax and structure.
• ? Explore all the basic and extended syntax elements for seamless writing and web design.
• ?️ Simple and practical examples so you can follow along easily and have a hands-on experience.
• ?Notes about additional information on the topics, wherever they are required.
• ? Good practice to follow about different markup elements in Markdown language.

 

Buy this book now, and level up your writing and content creation skills today! ?✨

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nehal Khan
• Release date: Nov 29, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223680871

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MARKDOWN

A COMPLETE GUIDE

NEHAL KHAN

MARKDOWN

A COMPLETE GUIDE

by

Nehal Khan

ISBN-13: 978-93-6128-274-4

Last updated on 28th December 2023

Published by Nehal Khan

Markdown: A Complete Guide © 2023 by Nehal Khan is licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

To my parents

Contents

Introduction

Who is this book for?

What topics are covered in this book?

Benefits of reading this book

The convention used in this book

Acknowledgements

Getting Started

What is Markdown?

Why use Markdown?

How does Markdown work?

Different Flavors of Markdown

What is Markdown used for?

How to get started?

Basic Syntax

Headings

Good Practices

Paragraphs

Good Practices

Line Breaks

Good Practices

Emphasis

Bold

Good Practices

Italic

Good Practices

Bold and Italic

Good Practices

Code

Adding a backtick or backslash in your inline code

Horizontal Rule

Good Practices

Code Blocks

Good Practices

Blockquotes

Nested Blockquotes

Blockquotes with other Markdown elements

Good Practices

Links

Inline Links

Reference Links

Implicit Link Name

Formatting Links

Good Practices

Images

Inline Images

Reference-style Images

Image as a Link

Good Practices

Lists

Ordered Lists

Accidentally triggering an ordered list

Good Practices

Unordered Lists

Good Practices

Adding other Markdown elements to your lists

Paragraph

Blockquotes

Lists

Links and Images

Code Blocks

Escaping Characters

Adding a backslash before special characters

Automatic Links

Disabling Automatic Links

HTML

Good Practices

Extended Syntax

Tables

Column Alignment

Formatting cell content in your table

Escaping pipe character

Good Practices

Task List

Good Practices

Heading IDs

Linking to Heading IDs

Fenced Code Blocks

Good Practices

Strikethrough

Highlight

Subscript and Superscript

Emojis

Copy and Paste Emojis

Emoji Shortcodes

Definition Lists

Good Practices

Footnotes

Good Practices

Mathematics and LaTeX

Inline Expressions

Block Styled Expressions

Equations

Functions

Matrices

About the Author

Introduction

As a Software Engineer, I've written different types of documents throughout my professional career. These documents include technical documentation, guides, summaries, reviews, and readme files. I have used many writing tools before, but my writing process underwent a vast transformation when I came across Markdown. The Markdown markup language has significantly improved my writing process and also made it a lot simpler.

Markdown is one of the most popular, successful, and widely used markup languages after HTML. Writing with Markdown language is also easy to start with. One of the main reasons it has become so successful is that it's easy to learn, simple to use, and quite powerful. Since its introduction, millions of people have started using it to write everything. You can use it for all kinds of things like creating simple notes and documents, writing books, technical documentation, and even building static websites.

It has been many years since I started using the Markdown language, and I would recommend it to anyone who deals with any form of writing. Since it is easy to use and better than the alternatives, learning Markdown will help you a lot with your writing process.

I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as