Markdown syntax is extremely simple and you can learn all you need to know within a few minutes.
Formatting headings
# First level
## Second Level
### Third level
#### Fourth level
##### Fifth level
###### Sixth level
Bold and Italics
Bold: **some text**
Italics: _some other text_
Also italics: *this is also italics*
Links
[link text](link)
example: [click here for a web page](http://google.com)
Figures and Images
Figures are formatted the same as links but just add a !
before the square bracked.
![text description](/path/to/image)
You can have a picture with a link:
[![text description](/path/to/image)](http://twitter.com)
Horizontal lines
***
or
---
Code and verbatim
Inline code: `some code`
Code block:
some code
and another line of code
some more code
Subscript (Pandoc only)
R~0~
Superscript (Pandoc only)
x^2^
That's most of the formatting you'll need to get by. I'll get into citation and table formatting on a separate page.