Head 1

Many writers in antiquity presented their texts as the writings of other, usually famous, people—a practice scholars call pseudepigraphy.

Head 2

Many writers in antiquity presented their texts as the writings of other, usually famous, people—a practice scholars call pseudepigraphy.

Head 3

Many writers in antiquity presented their texts as the writings of other, usually famous, people—a practice scholars call pseudepigraphy.

Head 4

Many writers in antiquity presented their texts as the writings of other, usually famous, people—a practice scholars call pseudepigraphy.

Head 5

Many writers in antiquity presented their texts as the writings of other, usually famous, people—a practice scholars call pseudepigraphy.

Emphasis

Emphasis, aka italics, with asterisks or underscores.

Strong emphasis, aka bold, with asterisks or underscores.

Combined emphasis with asterisks and underscores.

Strikethrough uses two tildes. Scratch this.

Lists

1. First ordered list item
2. Another item ⋅⋅⋅⋅* Unordered sub-list.
3. Actual numbers don't matter, just that it's a number ⋅⋅⋅⋅1. Ordered sub-list
4. And another item.

⋅⋅⋅You can have properly indented paragraphs within list items. Notice the blank line above, and the leading spaces (at least one, but we'll use three here to also align the raw Markdown).

⋅⋅⋅To have a line break without a paragraph, you will need to use two trailing spaces.⋅⋅ ⋅⋅⋅Note that this line is separate, but within the same paragraph.⋅⋅ ⋅⋅⋅(This is contrary to the typical GFM line break behaviour, where trailing spaces are not required.)

• Unordered list can use asterisks

• Or minuses

• Or pluses

Code and Syntax Highlighting

Inline code has back-ticks around it.

var s = "JavaScript syntax highlighting";
alert(s);

s = "Python syntax highlighting"
print s

No language indicated, so no syntax highlighting.
But let's throw in a <b>tag</b>.

Footnotes

Here is a simple footnote¹.

A footnote can also have multiple lines².

You can also use words, to fit your writing style more closely³.

Tables

Colons can be used to align columns.

Tables	Are	Cool
col 3 is	right-aligned	$1600
col 2 is	centered	$12
zebra stripes	are neat	$1

There must be at least 3 dashes separating each header cell. The outer pipes (|) are optional, and you don't need to make the raw Markdown line up prettily. You can also use inline Markdown.

Markdown	Less	Pretty
Still	renders	nicely
1	2	3

Blockquotes

Blockquotes are very handy in email to emulate reply text. This line is part of the same quote.

Quote break.

This is a very long line that will still be quoted properly when it wraps. Oh boy let's keep writing to make sure this is long enough to actually wrap for everyone. Oh, you can put Markdown into a blockquote.

Horizontal Rule

Three or more...

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Hyphens

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Asterisks

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Underscores

Mermaid Diagram

(Sub,Super)script

H₂O, foo_bar

X², foo^bar

Footnotes

1. My reference. ↩

2. Every new line should be prefixed with 2 spaces. This allows you to have a footnote with multiple lines. ↩

3. Named footnotes will still render with numbers instead of the text but allow easier identification and linking. This footnote also has been made with a different syntax using 4 spaces for new lines. ↩