Erato 1 4 3 – Markdown Text Editor
Let's face it: Writing content for the Web is tiresome. WYSIWYG editors help alleviate this task, but they generally result in horrible code, or worse yet, ugly web pages.
Erato 1 4 3 – Markdown Text Editor Tutorial
Markdown is a better way to write HTML, without all the complexities and ugliness that usually accompanies it.
3.1 Writing Markdown. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that is used to format and structure text. It is a kind of “code” that you write in order to annotate plain text: it lets the computer know that “this text is bold”, “this text is a heading”, etc. Compared to other markup languages, Markdown is easy to write and easy to read without getting in the way of the text itself. TOAST UI Editor, Mark Text, and Typora.io are probably your best bets out of the 12 options considered. 'Easy to use' is the primary reason people pick TOAST UI Editor over the competition. This page is powered by a knowledgeable community that helps you make an informed decision.
Some of the key benefits are:
- Markdown is simple to learn, with minimal extra characters, so it's also quicker to write content.
- Less chance of errors when writing in markdown.
- Produces valid XHTML output.
- Keeps the content and the visual display separate, so you cannot mess up the look of your site.
- Write in any text editor or Markdown application you like.
- Markdown is a joy to use!
Erato 1 4 3 – Markdown Text Editor
John Gruber, the author of Markdown, puts it like this:
The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters, the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email.-- John Gruber
Grav ships with built-in support for Markdown and Markdown Extra. You must enable Markdown Extra in your system.yaml
configuration file.
Without further delay, let us go over the main elements of Markdown and what the resulting HTML looks like:
Headings
Headings from h1
through h6
are constructed with a #
for each level:
Renders to:
h2 Heading
h3 Heading
h4 Heading
h5 Heading
h6 Heading
HTML:
Comments should be HTML compatible
Comment below should NOT be seen:
Horizontal Rules
The HTML <hr>
element is for creating a 'thematic break' between paragraph-level elements. In markdown, you can create a <hr>
with any of the following:
___
: three consecutive underscores---
: three consecutive dashes***
: three consecutive asterisks
renders to:
Body Copy
Body copy written as normal, plain text will be wrapped with <p></p>
tags in the rendered HTML.
So this body copy:
renders to this HTML:
A line break can be done with 2 spaces followed by 1 return.
Inline HTML
If you need a certain HTML tag (with a class) you can simply use HTML:
Emphasis
Bold
For emphasizing a snippet of text with a heavier font-weight.
The following snippet of text is rendered as bold text.
renders to:
rendered as bold text
and this HTML:
Italics
For emphasizing a snippet of text with italics.
The following snippet of text is rendered as italicized text.
renders to:
rendered as italicized text
and this HTML:
Strikethrough
In GFM (GitHub flavored Markdown) you can do strikethroughs.
Which renders to:
Strike through this text.
HTML:
Blockquotes
For quoting blocks of content from another source within your document.
Add >
before any text you want to quote.
Renders to:
Fusion Drive combines a hard drive with a flash storage (solid-state drive) and presents it as a single logical volume with the space of both drives combined.
and this HTML:
Blockquotes can also be nested:
Renders to:
Donec massa lacus, ultricies a ullamcorper in, fermentum sed augue.Nunc augue augue, aliquam non hendrerit ac, commodo vel nisi.
Sed adipiscing elit vitae augue consectetur a gravida nunc vehicula. Donec auctorodio non est accumsan facilisis. Aliquam id turpis in dolor tincidunt mollis ac eu diam.
Notices
The old mechanism for notices overriding the block quote syntax (>>>
) has been deprecated. Notices are now handled via a dedicated plugin called Markdown Notices
Lists
Unordered
A list of items in which the order of the items does not explicitly matter.
You may use any of the following symbols to denote bullets for each list item:
For example
Renders to:
- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
- Consectetur adipiscing elit
- Integer molestie lorem at massa
- Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet
- Nulla volutpat aliquam velit
- Phasellus iaculis neque
- Purus sodales ultricies
- Vestibulum laoreet porttitor sem
- Ac tristique libero volutpat at
- Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel
- Aenean sit amet erat nunc
- Eget porttitor lorem
And this HTML
Ordered
A list of items in which the order of items does explicitly matter.
Renders to:
- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
- Consectetur adipiscing elit
- Integer molestie lorem at massa
- Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet
- Nulla volutpat aliquam velit
- Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel
- Aenean sit amet erat nunc
- Eget porttitor lorem
And this HTML:
TIP: If you just use 1.
for each number, Markdown will automatically number each item. For example:
Renders to:
- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
- Consectetur adipiscing elit
- Integer molestie lorem at massa
- Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet
- Nulla volutpat aliquam velit
- Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel
- Aenean sit amet erat nunc
- Eget porttitor lorem
Code
Inline code
Wrap inline snippets of code with `
.
Renders to:
In this example, <section></section>
should be wrapped with code.
HTML:
Indented code
Or indent several lines of code by at least four spaces, as in:
Renders to:
HTML:
Block code 'fences'
Use 'fences' ```
to block in multiple lines of code with a language attribute
HTML:
Syntax highlighting
GFM, or 'GitHub Flavored Markdown' also supports syntax highlighting. To activate it, simply add the file extension of the language you want to use directly after the first code 'fence', ```js
, and syntax highlighting will automatically be applied in the rendered HTML. For example, to apply syntax highlighting to JavaScript code:
Renders to:
For syntax highlighting to work, the Highlight plugin needs to be installed and enabled. It in turn utilizes a jquery plugin, so jquery needs to be loaded in your theme too.
Tables
Tables are created by adding pipes as dividers between each cell, and by adding a line of dashes (also separated by bars) beneath the header. Note that the pipes do not need to be vertically aligned.
Renders to:
Option | Description |
---|---|
data | path to data files to supply the data that will be passed into templates. |
engine | engine to be used for processing templates. Handlebars is the default. |
ext | extension to be used for dest files. |
And this HTML:
Right aligned text
Adding a colon on the right side of the dashes below any heading will right align text for that column.
Option | Description |
---|---|
data | path to data files to supply the data that will be passed into templates. |
engine | engine to be used for processing templates. Handlebars is the default. |
ext | extension to be used for dest files. |
Links
Basic link
Renders to (hover over the link, there is no tooltip):
HTML:
Add a title
Renders to (hover over the link, there should be a tooltip):
HTML:
Named Anchors
Named anchors enable you to jump to the specified anchor point on the same page. For example, each of these chapters:
will jump to these sections:
NOTE that specific placement of the anchor tag seems to be arbitrary. They are placed inline here since it seems to be unobtrusive, and it works.
Images
Images have a similar syntax to links but include a preceding exclamation point.
or:
Like links, images also have a footnote style syntax:
With a reference later in the document defining the URL location: