How to use Markdown
Markdown is a very nice way to transform simple text to formatted text (HTML). If you’re working in a tech company or have started to use Ghost, you’re likely to be confronted with it.
Here’s a guide to quickly get started.
Paragraphs
Markdown does not want to force you to put long paragraphs on a single line. That is unfriendly for text editors. That’s why you need two line breaks to split a single paragraph in markdown.
This is text in markdown.
This is more text in markdown.
The text above becomes:
This is text in markdown. This is more text in markdown.
Headers
To make a line of text a big header, prefix it with a single #. Use more for incrementally smaller headers.
# This will be transformed into a big header
## This will be transformed into a big, yet slightly smaller header
### etc
Links
A link consists of two parts. The part that you see, the link text, and the actual link, the URL. To make one in markdown, do this:
[This link goes to Google](https://www.google.com)
The line above becomes: This link goes to Google
Pictures
Pictures are basically links to images that you tell the browser you want to display immediately. That’s why the syntax of images in Markdown is very similar to links:
Becomes:
Lists
Use ‘*’ or ‘-’ for lists without numbers. Use ‘1.’ for numbered lists.
1. one
1. two
1. three
becomes:
- one
- two
- three
