How to add new line in Markdown presentation?

See the original markdown specification (bold mine): The implication of the “one or more consecutive lines of text” rule is that Markdown supports “hard-wrapped” text paragraphs. This differs significantly from most other text-to-HTML formatters (including Movable Type’s “Convert Line Breaks” option) which translate every line break character in a paragraph into a <br /> tag. When you do want … Read more

How to apply color in Markdown?

TL;DR Markdown doesn’t support color but you can inline HTML inside Markdown, e.g.: Longer answer As the original/official syntax rules state (emphasis added): Markdown’s syntax is intended for one purpose: to be used as a format for writing for the web. Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it. Its syntax is very … Read more

Markdown vs markup – are they related?

Markup is a generic term for a language that describes a document’s formatting Markdown is a specific markup library: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/These days the term is more commonly used to refer to markup languages that mimic the style of the library. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown

How to apply color in Markdown?

TL;DR Markdown doesn’t support color but you can inline HTML inside Markdown, e.g.: Longer answer As the original/official syntax rules state (emphasis added): Markdown’s syntax is intended for one purpose: to be used as a format for writing for the web. Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it. Its syntax is very … Read more

Escaping Discord subset of markdown

I’m trying to escape the subset of markdown that Discord supports (*, _, `, ~). Characters that are already escaped should not have additional backslashes added. This is what I have:  Run code snippetExpand snippet This works fine, minus the fact that multiple markdown characters against each other will not all be escaped. I’m not sure how to … Read more