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  1. When I created a github page I got to edit markdown. Now I want to edit my page. Problem is there's no markdown. Just an index.html and a params.json that literally contain duplicated content. I want to edit my site in the same markdown I got to edit it in when it was created.
  2. Using HTML tags is supposed to work with GitHub Markdown but, in particular, text is not working for me. It used to work on the now deprecated live preview page, but not on preview of README.md file. It works on wikis. I didn't find any special syntax for strikethrough on the Markdown: Syntax page.
  3. Look no more, upload your HTML files and convert them to GitHub-Flavored Markdown files. Yes, it's that easy. Converting from HTML HTML has a real badass name. Hypertext markup language. I mean, it starts with Hyper, right? HTML is the most important language for.
  4. Try it out in a Markdown Here email or a Github Markdown README or Github Issue - you can preview a new Issue without submitting it.) Again, to see what languages are available for highlighting, and how to write those language names, see the highlight.js demo page.

Tricks to force Markdown to show things the way you want.

  • Automatic conversion
  • Paragraphs
  • Heading (h2)
    • Sub-heading (h3)
      • Sub-sub-heading (h4)
        • Sub-sub-sub-heading (h5)

Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text. Contribute to Alir3z4/html2text development by creating an account on GitHub.

This post is about how to craft markdown text in a file like README.md.

This article adds real-world observations (PROTIPs) to the short introduction at guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown.

Why Markdown?

Back in 2004, Apple pundit John Gruber came up with the idea of markdown after becoming frustrated by laborious HTML tags to properly format his content. [Wikipedia]

Markdown is a way to style text on the web by defining regular text with a few non-alphabetic characters.

Markdown is a simple writing system which makes web-based documents both easier to write and easier to read in their raw state.

GitHub renders markdown automatically in files with suffix of .md or .markdown, such as README.md or README.markdown.

Most technical people now write whole blog sites in Markup. This is largely to put docs nearer to code, usually in README files. Self-publishing sites such as GitBook make use of markup. Even fiction writers are writing in markdown code to use GitHub's collaboration features.

Many non-technical writers prefer writing Markdown text instead of using the mouse-enabled Microsoft Word.They say writing pure text allows them to keep their fingers near the keyboardeven as they apply formatting on the fly. Being able to format using text codes means they don't have to stop typing or think about anything else to apply text styling.

markdownguide.org/basic-syntax displays how Markdown converts to HTML and output rendered by GitHub.

Alternatives to Markdown

In my opinion, Markdown is less limiting than crafting Confluence.

Alternative formats to Markdown include:

  • Asciidoc

Automatic conversion

This article adds tricks to convert existing HTML into Markdown.I've had to convert hundreds of pages I've written in HTML since the 90's.

You can copy HTML and paste into Dom Christie's website for conversion to Markdown:

    http://domchristie.github.io/to-markdown

Auto Convert HTML to text

The easiest way to convert HTML to Markdown text is to use Aaron Swartz's

  • html2text.py Python script or on-line But it has not been updated since 2011.

My experience is that we'll need to pretty much go through each lineto make it look good in Markdown text.

You can specify a URL in this website, which converts HTML page to text:

    http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text

The website returns a page of Markdown text you can then copy and paste to a Markdown file.

The author of that site provides his Python program at:

Download and run the program using this syntax(assuming Python is installed):

PROTIP: Automatic approaches today are usually too automatic, converting what is better left in HTML.

Paragraphs

One reason Markdown text is easier to write than HTML isthere is no need for

to force a blank line.

Just a blank line will reflect as such in the output.

To convert from HTML with a lot of

, do a mass change (replace all) in a text editor.

Remember to clean up ending

tags by replacing them with nothing.

Markdown to HTML

To see your markdown turn into HTML, use the online tool at:

    daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus

Markdown recognizes up to 6 hash characters for 6 levels:

Heading (h2)

Sub-heading (h3)

Sub-sub-heading (h4)

Sub-sub-sub-heading (h5) Sub-sub-sub-sub-heading (h6)

The headings above make use of ## (called Atx-style headers) instead of HTML

tags.

The ending ‘##' character is optional, with any number of characters.

WARNING: Markdown is not good about indenting headings.

Alternately, Setext-styleheaders are specified ('underlined') by a series ofequal signs (for first-level headers) and dashes (for second-level headers):

Horizontal rule

A line going across the page accentuates divisions.

Use HTML markup tag:

Ordered lists

My favorite feature of Markdown is it automatically ordered numbers in lists like this:

The coding above Markdown renders correctly as 1,2,3.

That means you can write this:

Indention

Markdown uses spaces in front of lines to indent text, such as:

CAUTION: No spaces in front of 'Something' above would break automatic numbering.In order for numbering to continue, all lines must be indented at least 3 spaces.

Another good reason to let Markdown number for you is that after item number 10,you need to indent 4 spaces to avoid stopping auto-numbering.

Use 3 spaces in front of 3 backticks.

On their own, 4 or more back-ticks is a signal to highlight the sentence in a box, not to indent.

Not specified in most tutorials about indenting markdown is the use of a bug in HTML:

Convert markdown to github html
    [https://docs.shopify.com/themes/liquid/basics](https://docs.shopify.com/themes/liquid/basics)

This coding would process html as such between a set ofLiquid {% tag markers:

Liquid output markup can also be specified between two curly braces,such as:

The page.heading refers to the heading variable specified in the front matter at the top of the file.

To display Liquid markup in documentation:

In fact, Liquid is a rather (simple yet complete) programming language on its own right, with if/then/else,for loops, etc.The home page for Liquid template language (written in Ruby):

JavaScript

Markdown To Github Html Css

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