Markdown

Spacehall markdown formatting reference

Headings

To create a heading, add one to six # symbols before your heading text. The number of # you use will determine the hierarchy level and typeface size of the heading.

# A first-level heading
## A second-level heading
### A third-level heading

Styling text

You can indicate emphasis with bold, italic, strikethrough, subscript, or superscript text.

Style	Syntax	Example	Output
Bold	** ** or __ __	**This is bold text**	This is bold text
Italic	* * or _ _	_This text is italicized_	This text is italicized
Strikethrough	~~ ~~	~~This was mistaken text~~	This was mistaken text
Bold and nested italic	** ** and _ _	**This text is _extremely_ important**	This text is extremely important
All bold and italic	*** ***	***All this text is important***	All this text is important

Quoting text

You can quote text with a >.

Text that is not a quote

> Text that is a quote

Quoted text is indented.

Quoting code

You can call out code or a command within a sentence with single backticks. The text within the backticks will not be formatted.

Use `cat file.txt` to output the content of the text file.

To format code into its own distinct block, use triple backticks.

Print a text string:

```
print("Hello World!")
```

Spacehall will try to infer the programming language from the block's content.

You can also set it manually by adding the language name after the first backticks.

Print a text string:

```rust
println!("Hello World!")
```

Links

You can create an inline link by wrapping link text in brackets [ ], and then wrapping the URL in parentheses ( ).

This discussion is hosted on [Spacehall](https://spacehall.app).

Valid URLs are automatically transformed as links.

Images

You can display an image by adding ! and wrapping the alt text in [ ].

Alt text is a short text equivalent of the information in the image.

Then, wrap the link for the image in parentheses ().

![My screenshot](https://some-url.com/my-screenshot.jpg)

For more information on how to upload a picture to Spacehall, see Uploading assets.

Lists

You can make an unordered list by preceding one or more lines of text with -, *, or +.

- George Washington
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson

To order your list, precede each line with a number.

1. James Madison
1. James Monroe
1. John Quincy Adams

Nested Lists

You can create a nested list by indenting one or more list items below another item.

1. First list item
   - First nested list item
     - Second nested list item

Task lists

You can create a task list by preceding one or more line with - [ ] for new tasks, and - [x] for completed tasks.

- [x] buy bread
- [ ] buy cheese
- [ ] buy ham

Uploading assets

You can upload assets like images by using the file uploader.

Limitations
Supported assets	images
Format	jpeg, png, svg, gif, webp
Maximum size	10 MB
Maximum dimension	12,000 px
Maximum resolution	100 megapixels (ex: 10,000x10,000)
Maximum metadata size	1024 bytes
Animated GIFs	Limited to 50 mp

Paragraphs

You can create a new paragraph by leaving a blank line between lines of text.

Footnotes

You can add footnotes to your content by using this bracket syntax:

Here is a simple footnote[^1].

A footnote can also have multiple lines[^2].

[^1]: My reference.
[^2]: To add line breaks within a footnote, prefix new lines with 2 spaces.
  This is a second line.