CTAN Markdown: Style

Markdown provides a limited set of font changing instructions.

Italic Text

Text enclosed in single stars or single underscores is typeset as italic. If the opening character is not closed properly then an implicit closing is assumed at the end of the line.

abc *def* ghi

abc _def_ ghi

Bold Text

Text enclosed in double stars or double underscores is typeset as bold. If the opening character is not closed properly then an implicit closing is assumed at the end of the line.

abc **def** ghi

abc __def__ ghi

Strong Emphasis

Triple stars or underscores are a shortcut for bold and italic. It does not need to be opened and closed by the same string. Thus for instance ** followed after some text by * can be jointly closed with ***. And the same for an opening ***.

abc ***def*** ghi

abc ___def___ ghi

Strike-through Text

Text enclosed in double tilde characters is typeset as strike-through text.

abc ~~def~~ ghi

Code

Text enclosed in single backtick characters is typeset in a monospaced font. Any special characters loose their meaning until the closing backtick or the end of line is reached.

abc `def` ghi