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Markdown: Syntax
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* [Overview](#overview)
* [Philosophy](#philosophy)
* [Inline HTML](#html)
* [Automatic Escaping for Special Characters](#autoescape)
* [Block Elements](#block)
* [Paragraphs and Line Breaks](#p)
* [Headers](#header)
* [Blockquotes](#blockquote)
* [Lists](#list)
* [Code Blocks](#precode)
* [Horizontal Rules](#hr)
* [Span Elements](#span)
* [Links](#link)
* [Emphasis](#em)
* [Code](#code)
* [Images](#img)
* [Miscellaneous](#misc)
* [Backslash Escapes](#backslash)
* [Automatic Links](#autolink)
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<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2>
<h3 id="philosophy">Philosophy</h3>
Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible.
Readability, however, is emphasized above all else. A Markdown-formatted
document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking
like it's been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While
Markdown's syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML
filters -- including [Setext] [1], [atx] [2], [Textile] [3], [reStructuredText] [4],
[Grutatext] [5], and [EtText] [6] -- the single biggest source of
inspiration for Markdown's syntax is the format of plain text email.
[1]: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/mirror/setext.html
[2]: http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/atx/
[3]: http://textism.com/tools/textile/
[4]: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
[5]: http://www.triptico.com/software/grutatxt.html
[6]: http://ettext.taint.org/doc/
To this end, Markdown's syntax is comprised entirely of punctuation
characters, which punctuation characters have been carefully chosen so
as to look like what they mean. E.g., asterisks around a word actually
look like \*emphasis\*. Markdown lists look like, well, lists. Even
blockquotes look like quoted passages of text, assuming you've ever
used email.
<h3 id="html">Inline HTML</h3>
Markdown's syntax is intended for one purpose: to be used as a
format for *writing* for the web.
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