This Switchboard fully supports the Markdown formatting technique; a plain text markup syntax that converts the plain text markup to HTML for publishing on the web.

The Markdown syntax allows you to write text naturally and format it without using HTML tags. More importantly: in Markdown format, your text stays enjoyable to read for a human being, and this is true enough that it makes a Markdown document publishable as-is, as plain text. If you are using text-formatted email, you already know some part of the syntax.

Markdown Cheatsheet

Phrase Emphasis

*italic*   **bold**
_italic_   __bold__

Links

Links with no formatting are automatically converted to an A link

Inline:

An [example](http://url.com/ "Title")

Reference-style labels (titles are optional):

An [example][id]. Then, anywhere
else in the doc, define the link:

  [id]: http://example.com/  "Title"

Images

Inline (titles are optional):

![alt text](/path/img.jpg "Title")

Reference-style:

![alt text][id]

  [id]: /url/to/img.jpg "Title"

Headers

Setext-style:

Header 1
========

Header 2
--------

atx-style (closing #'s are optional):

# Header 1 #

## Header 2 ##

###### Header 6

Lists

Ordered, without paragraphs:

1.  Foo
2.  Bar

Unordered, with paragraphs:

*   A list item.

    With multiple paragraphs.

*   Bar

You can nest them:

*   Abacus
    * ass
*   Bastard
    1.  bitch
    2.  bupkis
        * BELITTLER
    3. burper
*   Cunning

Blockquotes

> Email-style angle brackets
> are used for blockquotes.


> > And, they can be nested.

> #### Headers in blockquotes
> 
> * You can quote a list.
> * Etc.

Code Spans

`<code>` spans are delimited
by backticks.

You can include literal backticks
like `` `this` ``.

Preformatted Code Blocks

Indent every line of a code block by at least 4 spaces or 1 tab.

This is a normal paragraph.

    This is a preformatted
    code block.

Horizontal Rules

Three or more dashes or asterisks:

---

* * *

- - - -

Manual Line Breaks

End a line with two or more spaces:

Roses are red,   
Violets are blue.