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
Does anyone know how to display a local image in markdown? I don’t want to setup a webserver for that. I try the following in markdown, but it doesn’t work: 
Use 4 spaces. Here’s a screenshot from that updated repo: Thanks @Waylan, your comment was exactly right.
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
native markdown doesn’t support text alignment without html + css.
Use four spaces to indent content between bullet points Produces: item 1 item 2 Code block item 3
Taken from the Multimarkdown Users Guide (thanks to @MultiMarkdown on Twitter for pointing it out) [Some Text][]will link to a header named “Some Text”e.g. An optional label of your choosing to help disambiguate cases where multiple headers have the same title: This allows you to use [MultiMarkdownOverview] to refer to this section specifically, and not another section … Read more
There’s no way to do that in markdown’s native features. However markdown allows inline HTML, so writing will produce: This will appear with six space characters in front of it If you have control over CSS on the page, you could also use a tag and style it, either inline or with CSS rules. Either … Read more
Try adding 2 spaces (or a backslash \) after the first line: Visually: Output:
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