Some color-syntaxing enrichment can be applied with the following blockcode syntax “`json Here goes your json object definition “` Note: This won’t prettify the json representation. To do so, one can previously rely on an external service such as jsbeautifier.org and paste the prettified result in the wiki.
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
The short answer is no. The long answer is yes. 🙂 Markdown was designed to allow people to write simple, readable text that could be easily converted to a simple HTML markup. It doesn’t really do document layout. For example, there’s no real way to align an image to the right or left. As to … Read more
In GitHub markdown <ins>text</ins> works just fine.
Yes, you can merge them using HTML. When I create tables in .md files from Github, I always like to use HTML code instead of markdown. Github Flavored Markdown supports basic HTML in .md file. So this would be the answer: Markdown mixed with HTML: | Tables | Are | Cool | | ————- |:————-:| … Read more
If your Markdown compiler supports HTML, you can add <br/><br/> in the Markdown source.
Many ways: If you’re on a Mac, use Mou. If you want to test in a browser, you could try StackEdit, as pointed out by @Aaron or Dillinger since Notepag seems to be down now. Personally I use Dillinger since it just works and saves all my documents in my browser’s local database.
Use 4 spaces. # Unordered list * Item 1 * Item 2 * Item 3 * Item 3a * Item 3b * Item 3c # Ordered list 1. Step 1 2. Step 2 3. Step 3 1. Step 3.1 2. Step 3.2 3. Step 3.3 # List in list 1. Step 1 2. Step 2 … Read more
Expanding a little bit on the previous answer, you can make the footnote links clickable here as well. First define the footnote at the bottom like this <a name=”myfootnote1″>1</a>: Footnote content goes here Then reference it at some other place in the document like this <sup>[1](#myfootnote1)</sup>
Updated: Markdown syntax for images (external/internal):  HTML code for sizing images (internal/external): <img src=”https://github.com/favicon.ico” width=”48″> Example: Old Answer: This should work: [[ http://url.to/image.png | height = 100px ]] Source: https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/