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diff --git a/doc/markdown/markdown.md b/doc/markdown/markdown.md index f49f09756ab..e7ebc613431 100644 --- a/doc/markdown/markdown.md +++ b/doc/markdown/markdown.md @@ -8,23 +8,38 @@ Table of Contents **[GitLab Flavored Markdown](#gitlab-flavored-markdown-gfm)** [Newlines](#newlines) + [Multiple underscores in words](#multiple-underscores-in-words) + [URL autolinking](#url-autolinking) + [Code and Syntax Highlighting](#code-and-syntax-highlighting) + [Emoji](#emoji) + [Special GitLab references](#special-gitlab-references) + **[Standard Markdown](#standard-markdown)** [Headers](#headers) + [Emphasis](#emphasis) + [Lists](#lists) + [Links](#links) + [Images](#images) + [Blockquotes](#blockquotes) + [Inline HTML](#inline-html) + [Horizontal Rule](#horizontal-rule) + [Line Breaks](#line-breaks) + [Tables](#tables) **[References](#references)** @@ -33,7 +48,8 @@ Table of Contents GitLab Flavored Markdown (GFM) ============================== -For GitLab we developed something we call "GitLab Flavored Markdown" (GFM). It extends the standard Markdown in a few significant ways to add some useful functionality. +For GitLab we developed something we call "GitLab Flavored Markdown" (GFM). +It extends the standard Markdown in a few significant ways to add some useful functionality. You can use GFM in @@ -51,16 +67,20 @@ Please see the [github-markup gem readme](https://github.com/gitlabhq/markup#mar Newlines -------- -The biggest difference that GFM introduces is in the handling of linebreaks. With traditional Markdown you can hard wrap paragraphs of text and they will be combined into a single paragraph. We find this to be the cause of a huge number of unintentional formatting errors. GFM treats newlines in paragraph-like content as real line breaks, which is probably what you intended. +GFM honors the markdown specification in how [paragraphs and line breaks are handled](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#p). -The next paragraph contains two phrases separated by a single newline character: +A paragraph is simply one or more consecutive lines of text, separated by one or more blank lines.: Roses are red Violets are blue + Sugar is sweet + Roses are red Violets are blue +Sugar is sweet + Multiple underscores in words ----------------------------- It is not reasonable to italicize just _part_ of a word, especially when you're dealing with code and names that often appear with multiple underscores. Therefore, GFM ignores multiple underscores in words. @@ -319,13 +339,13 @@ Strikethrough uses two tildes. ~~Scratch this.~~ ## Links -There are two ways to create links. +There are two ways to create links, inline-style and reference-style. [I'm an inline-style link](https://www.google.com) [I'm a reference-style link][Arbitrary case-insensitive reference text] - [I'm a relative reference to a repository file](../blob/master/LICENSE) + [I'm a relative reference to a repository file](LICENSE) [You can use numbers for reference-style link definitions][1] @@ -341,7 +361,7 @@ There are two ways to create links. [I'm a reference-style link][Arbitrary case-insensitive reference text] -[I'm a relative reference to a repository file](../blob/master/LICENSE) +[I'm a relative reference to a repository file](LICENSE) [You can use numbers for reference-style link definitions][1] @@ -353,6 +373,15 @@ Some text to show that the reference links can follow later. [1]: http://slashdot.org [link text itself]: http://www.reddit.com +**Note** + +Relative links do not allow referencing project files in a wiki page or wiki page in a project file. +The reason for this is that, in GitLab, wiki is always a separate git repository. For example: + +`[I'm a reference-style link][style]` + +will point the link to `wikis/style` when the link is inside of a wiki markdown file. + ## Images Here's our logo (hover to see the title text): @@ -365,15 +394,15 @@ Some text to show that the reference links can follow later. [logo]: assets/logo-white.png -Here's our logo (hover to see the title text): +Here's our logo: Inline-style: - + Reference-style: ![alt text][logo] -[logo]: /assets/logo-white.png "Logo Title Text 2" +[logo]: /assets/logo-white.png ## Blockquotes |