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There are lots of powerful things you can do with the Markdown editor

Special formatting

As well as bold and italics, you can also use some other special formatting in Markdown when the need arises, for example:

• strike through
• ==highlight==
• *escaped characters*

So how do we do spoilers?

A second major clue was provided by hospital orderly Travis (Stephen Graham): Everybody dies. No mystery there. But why and how everyone dies. Now, there’s a mystery worth solving. Probably the biggest mystery there is.

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<span class="spoiler">My hidden paragraph here.</span>

Writing code blocks

There are two types of code elements which can be inserted in Markdown, the first is inline, and the other is block. Inline code is formatted by wrapping any word or words in back-ticks, like this. Larger snippets of code can be displayed across multiple lines using triple back ticks:

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.my-link {
    text-decoration: underline;
}

If you want to get really fancy, you can even add syntax highlighting using Rouge.

gem install bundler installs the bundler gem through RubyGems. You only need to install it once - not every time you create a new Jekyll project. Here are some additional details:

Reference lists

The quick brown jumped over the lazy.

Another way to insert links in markdown is using reference lists. You might want to use this style of linking to cite reference material in a Wikipedia-style. All of the links are listed at the end of the document, so you can maintain full separation between content and its source or reference.

Full HTML

Perhaps the best part of Markdown is that you’re never limited to just Markdown. You can write HTML directly in the Markdown editor and it will just work as HTML usually does. No limits! Here’s a standard YouTube embed code as an example:

Quotes

An 1868 Prang catalogue would later claim that such “books in the shape of a regular paper Doll… originated with us”.

It would seem the claim could also extend to die cut books in general, as we can’t find anything sooner, but do let us know in the comments