Markdown

Quick guide into formatting pitched, press-releases, follow-up messages and send outs with markdown.

Basic syntax

Styling

Use **double asterisks** to make something bold.

Use *single asterisks* or _underscores_ to italicize text.

You can ~~strikethrough~~ things with ~tildes~.

And yes, you can ~***~~combine all of them***~~~. 😊

# Heading 1 (largest)

## Heading 2

### Heading 3

and so forth up to a Heading 6. Notice there is a space after each #.

Hyperlinks

Create an inline hyperlink using [your text in brackets](followed by the URL in parentheses).

Example:

📩

Set up a call with me through [Calendly](https://calendly.com/).

Will result in:

Set up a call with me through Calendly.

Images

![description of image](link to image.jpg)

Other blocks

Horizontal line

Put 3 dashes “---” with an empty line before and after

Text here

---

Text after horizontal line

Force new line

Add 2 spaces at the end of the line.

Some text  
This goes on new line because previous line have 2 spaces at the end.

Signature in send-out emails

When you send a press release via send-outs, you can specify a signature that will be added before the unsubscribe link.

This signature need to be set manually only once. After it’s set, it will be used for every send-out.

Here is the sample signature, which you can customize and put into in the send-outs.

First name, Title  
mobile | +358 55 1234567  
email | [test@example.com](mailto:test@example.com)  
About company | [example.com](https://example.com)

Known issues and workarounds

using [6. title](link) generates a ordered list entry, use   instead of space (‣)

Markdown resources

Markdown Guide

A free and open-source reference guide that explains how to use Markdown.

www.markdownguide.org

Markdown Tutorial

Markdown is a way to write content for the web. It's written in what people like to call "plaintext", which is exactly the sort of text you're used to writing and seeing. Plaintext is just the regular alphabet, with a few familiar symbols, like asterisks ( * ) and backticks ( ` ).

www.markdowntutorial.com

Mastering Markdown

Markdown is a lightweight and easy-to-use syntax for styling all forms of writing on the GitHub platform. What you will learn: How the Markdown format makes styled collaborative editing easy How Markdown differs from traditional formatting approaches How to use Markdown to format text How to leverage GitHub's automatic Markdown rendering How to apply GitHub's unique Markdown extensions Markdown is a way to style text on the web.

guides.github.com