markdown cheatsheet.md

Overview of Markdown formatting

Note the title uses HTML h1 tags to center align the text.

H1 (top level section)

H2 (subsection)

H3 (subsubsection)

H4

H5

H6

Paragraph formatting

Paragraphs are separated by blank lines. This does nothing.

This, however, starts a new paragraph.

Quote using angle brackets. Similar to paragraphs, this continues the same paragraph.

Add a blank line to break paragraphs.

Quotes can be nested with additional angle brackets.

Text styling

Bold text uses double asterisks.

Italic text uses single astersisks.

Bold and italic uses triple asterisks.

Bold can be used with nested italic.

Italic can be used with nested bold.

Double tildes create strikethrough text.

Sub tags create _{subscript text.}

Sup tags create ^{superscript text}.

Links and referencing.

Links to websites use square brackets.

Relative link to another file.

Relative link with a heading specified.

Text can have footnotes¹.

Lists

1. Numbers create an ordered list.
2. Add items as follows
   1. Add a sublist as follows.
      1. Third level of indentation.

• Dashes create an unordered list.

  • This, too can be indented.
    • The third level of indentation.

• Task lists can have checkboxes

• A ticked box.

Tables

One column	A second column	A third column
Some text in a column that is left aligned.	Some center aligned text.	Some right aligned text.

Other formatting

Math

Math can be written inline with single $ characters: $a^2 + b^2 = c^2$

Or in a full math block with double $$ characters:

$$ cos^2 \theta + \sin^2 \theta = 1 $$

Collapsed sections

A collapsed section.

Section contents.

Code

Inline monospaced code can be surrounded with backticks.

A code block consists of triple backticks.

# Specific syntax highlighting

a = 1
b = 2
print(f'{a + b = })

Diagrams

graph TD;
    A-->B;
    A-->C;
    B-->D;
    C-->D;

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Footnotes

1. The reference to the footnote above. Note that this always appears at the end of the file. ↩