A simple and short overview of markdown techniques.

markdown_cheatsheet.txt

Italics and Bold
    => Italics: _some text_
    => Bold: **bold text**
    => Bold and Italics: **_bolditalics_** OR _**bolditalics**_ OR _bold **and** italics_

Headers
    => h1: #header1
    => h2: ##header2
    => h3: ###header3
    => h4: ####header4
    => h5: #####header5
    => h6: ######header6
    => header with italics: ##Colombian Symbolism in One _Hundred_ Years of Solitude

Links
    => Inline Link: [Visit Github!](www.github.com) //here Visit Github! is the link text
    => Inline Link, Using bold and italics: [**You're really, _really_ going to want to see this.**](www.dailykitten.com)
    => Inline Link, Links out of headers: [####The Latest News from the BBC](www.google.com)

Images
    => ![Benjamin Benedict](http://octodex.github.com/images/octdrey-catburn.jpg) ... Here the text in the square bracket is the alt text.
    => ![The first father](http://octodex.github.com/images/founding-father.jpg)
    => ![The second first father](http://octodex.github.com/images/foundingfather_v2.png)
    => ![Justicetocat](http://octodex.github.com/images/justicetocat.jpg)

Blockquotes
    => >"Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped at the call. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life!" .. add '>' at the beginning of quote
    => >He left **her** _quickly_, fearing that her intimacy might turn to jibing and wishing to be out of the way before she offered her ware to another, a tourist from"

Lists
    => Unordered Lists
       * one
       * two
       * three
    => Ordered Lists
       1. One
       2. Two
       3. Three
       4. Four
    => Nested Unordered
       * one
        * two
            * three
            * four
    => You can also add bold and italics in the list elements
    => You can use Ordered with Unordered lists in indentations

Paragraphs
    => Have a blank line in between lines in order to start a new paragraph
    => You can also format paragraphs in lists