# Markdown

This wiki's pages are written in [pandoc]'s extended form of [markdown].
If you're not familiar with markdown, you should start by looking
at the [markdown "basics" page] and the [markdown syntax description].
Consult the [pandoc User's Guide] for information about pandoc's syntax
for footnotes, tables, description lists, and other elements not present
in standard markdown.

[pandoc]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc
[pandoc User's Guide]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html
[markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown
[markdown "basics" page]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics
[markdown syntax description]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax 

Markdown is pretty intuitive, since it is based on email conventions.
Here are some examples to get you started:

 `*emphasized text*`
 *emphasized text*

 `**strong emphasis**`
 **strong emphasis**

 `` `literal text` ``
 `literal text`

 `\*escaped special characters\*`
 \*escaped special characters\*

 `[external link](http://google.com)`
 [external link](http://google.com)

 `![folder](/img/icons/folder.png)`
 ![folder](/img/icons/folder.png)

 Wikilink: `[Front Page]()`
 Wikilink: [Front Page]()

 `H~2~O`
 H~2~O

 `10^100^`
 10^100^

 `~~strikeout~~`
 ~~strikeout~~

 `$x = \frac{{ - b \pm \sqrt {b^2 - 4ac} }}{{2a}}$`

 $x = \frac{{ - b \pm \sqrt {b^2 - 4ac} }}{{2a}}$^[If this looks like
code, it's because jsMath is
not installed on your system.  Contact your administrator to request it.]

 `A simple footnote.^[Or is it so simple?]`

 A simple footnote.^[Or is it so simple?]

> an indented paragraph,
> usually used for quotations

> an indented paragraph,
> usually used for quotations

    #!/bin/sh -e
    # code, indented four spaces
    echo "Hello world"

    #!/bin/sh -e
    # code, indented four spaces
    echo "Hello world"


* a bulleted list
* second item
    - sublist
    - and more
* back to main list
    1. this item has an ordered
    2. sublist
        a) you can also use letters
        b) another item

* a bulleted list
* second item
    - sublist
    - and more
* back to main list
    1. this item has an ordered
    2. sublist
        a) you can also use letters
        b) another item

Fruit        Quantity
--------  -----------
apples         30,200
oranges         1,998
pears              42

Table:  Our fruit inventory

Fruit        Quantity
--------  -----------
apples         30,200
oranges         1,998
pears              42

Table:  Our fruit inventory

For headings, prefix a line with one or more `#` signs:  one for a major heading,
two for a subheading, three for a subsubheading.  Be sure to leave space before
and after the heading.

    # Markdown

    Text...
 
    ## Some examples...
   
    Text...

## Wiki links

Links to other wiki pages are formed this way:  `[Page Name]()`.
(Gitit converts markdown links with empty targets into wikilinks.)

To link to a wiki page using something else as the link text:
`[something else](Page Name)`.

Note that page names may contain spaces and some special characters.
They need not be CamelCase.  CamelCase words are *not* automatically
converted to wiki links.

Wiki pages may be organized into directories.  So, if you have
several pages on wine, you may wish to organize them like so:

    Wine/Pinot Noir
    Wine/Burgundy
    Wine/Cabernet Sauvignon

Note that a wiki link `[Burgundy]()` that occurs inside the `Wine`
directory will link to `Wine/Burgundy`, and not to `Burgundy`.
To link to a top-level page called `Burgundy`, you'd have to use
`[Burgundy](/Burgundy)`.

To link to a directory listing for a subdirectory, use a trailing
slash: `[Wine/]()` will link to a listing of the `Wine` subdirectory.
