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How to mark code snippet for makrdown

IT Admin October 13, 2015

I am wondering how one would indicate that some block of text is a code snippet for the Render-Markdown addon to format it appropriately.

I have read through the documentation thoroughly and found nothing, am I missing a basic syntax? Any advice would be helpful here.

If you are confused about the question, I am just trying to display the text as in the bottom row of this picture:

https://streamline.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RM/Render%20Markdown?preview=/2261000/3309570/bf64ecca-da6f-4ad6-bfce-be0b9bc0aab5.png

And wondering what I would write in the mardown macro box to display it. Really I just need to see what they wrote to show the code markdown in the example box here:

https://streamline.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RM/Render%20Markdown?preview=/2261000/3309569/2014-10-28_091747.png

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Matt Delahousaye October 13, 2015

AH! OK, exactly what I needed. Any reason the three tilde delimiter is not included in the documentation? Is it something commonly used elsewhere?

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October 13, 2015

I included a cheat sheet for your reference. There is a competing standard for delimiting code blocks, but the markdown renderer in the addon does both. I didn't think about including a markdown reference in the documentation, since there are many references in other places, but it might be a good idea. I'll implement that within the next day or so.

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Here is the original text from the image:

An h1 header
============

Paragraphs are separated by a blank line.

2nd paragraph. *Italic*, **bold**, and `monospace`. Itemized lists
look like:

  * this one
  * that one
  * the other one

Note that --- not considering the asterisk --- the actual text
content starts at 4-columns in.

> Block quotes are
> written like so.
>
> They can span multiple paragraphs,
> if you like.

Use 3 dashes for an em-dash. Use 2 dashes for ranges (ex., "it's all
in chapters 12--14"). Three dots ... will be converted to an ellipsis.
Unicode is supported. ☺



An h2 header
------------

Here's a numbered list:

 1. first item
 2. second item
 3. third item

Note again how the actual text starts at 4 columns in (4 characters
from the left side). Here's a code sample:

    # Let me re-iterate ...
    for i in 1 .. 10 { do-something(i) }

As you probably guessed, indented 4 spaces. By the way, instead of
indenting the block, you can use delimited blocks, if you like:

~~~
define foobar() {
    print "Welcome to flavor country!";
}
~~~

(which makes copying & pasting easier). You can optionally mark the
delimited block for Pandoc to syntax highlight it:

~~~python
import time
# Quick, count to ten!
for i in range(10):
    # (but not *too* quick)
    time.sleep(0.5)
    print i
~~~



### An h3 header ###

Now a nested list:

 1. First, get these ingredients:

      * carrots
      * celery
      * lentils

 2. Boil some water.

 3. Dump everything in the pot and follow
    this algorithm:

        find wooden spoon
        uncover pot
        stir
        cover pot
        balance wooden spoon precariously on pot handle
        wait 10 minutes
        goto first step (or shut off burner when done)

    Do not bump wooden spoon or it will fall.

Notice again how text always lines up on 4-space indents (including
that last line which continues item 3 above).

Here's a link to [a website](http://foo.bar), to a [local
doc](local-doc.html), and to a [section heading in the current
doc](#an-h2-header). Here's a footnote [^1].

[^1]: Footnote text goes here.

Tables can look like this:

size  material      color
----  ------------  ------------
9     leather       brown
10    hemp canvas   natural
11    glass         transparent

Table: Shoes, their sizes, and what they're made of

(The above is the caption for the table.) Pandoc also supports
multi-line tables:

--------  -----------------------
keyword   text
--------  -----------------------
red       Sunsets, apples, and
          other red or reddish
          things.

green     Leaves, grass, frogs
          and other things it's
          not easy being.
--------  -----------------------

A horizontal rule follows.

***

Here's a definition list:

apples
  : Good for making applesauce.
oranges
  : Citrus!
tomatoes
  : There's no "e" in tomatoe.

Again, text is indented 4 spaces. (Put a blank line between each
term/definition pair to spread things out more.)

Here's a "line block":

| Line one
|   Line too
| Line tree

and images can be specified like so:

![example image](example-image.jpg "An exemplary image")

Inline math equations go in like so: $\omega = d\phi / dt$. Display
math should get its own line and be put in in double-dollarsigns:

$$I = \int \rho R^{2} dV$$

And note that you can backslash-escape any punctuation characters
which you wish to be displayed literally, ex.: \`foo\`, \*bar\*, etc.

Probably the easiest way to delimit a code block is to surround it with three tildes (the squiggly character next to the 1 key in the upper left of the keyboard, usually) or three backticks (```, usually the character underneath the tilde).

both on the top and on the bottom.

Here is a cheat sheet for markdown:

https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet#code

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