Learn markdown in 3 minutes

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_

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)

Horizontal lines

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That's most of the formatting you'll need to get by. I'll get into citation and table formatting on a separate page.