Structured documents

Sometimes it’s useful to have different levels of headings to structure your documents. Start lines with a # to create headings. Multiple ## in a row denote smaller heading sizes.

This is a third-tier heading

You can use one # all the way up to ###### six for different heading sizes.

If you’d like to quote someone, use the > character before the line:

Coffee. The finest organic suspension ever devised… I beat the Borg with it.

Captain Janeway

It’s very easy to make some words bold and other words italic with Markdown. You can even link to Google!

Sometimes you want numbered lists:

One
Two
Three

Sometimes you want bullet points:

Start a line with a star
Profit!

Alternatively,

Dashes work just as well
And if you have sub points, put two spaces before the dash or star:
- Like this
- And this

Markdown examples taken from GitHub

Blog template adapted from Ryan P.C. McQuen