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My organization is interested in migrating our local Wiki from the office into Google Sites. I see that Google Sites supports some sort of Wiki interface, but I don't really like the GUI editor. Is it possible to use Markdown syntax instead?
This is a Unix-heavy shop, with many Unix-heads and engineers. Many of us prefer the code-friendly wiki syntax provided by Markdown.
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Using HTML tags is supposed to work with GitHub Markdown, but in particular <s>text</s> is not working for me. It works on live preview page (which is now deprecated) but not on preview of README.md file (it does work on wikis - I just checked). I didn't find any special syntax for strikethrough on Markdown: Syntax page.
Is it not possible?
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I love Google Docs. I write notes, essays, correspondences, invoices, journal entries, business ideas, planning documents- everything on there.
I also love the markdown format. I'm a programmer so sometimes I'm in my editor and just want to write things in markdown instead of going to Google Docs.
However, when I save my markdown files in Google Drive, I can't preview them there, which is extremely disruptive to my workflow. Being able to preview markdown files in Google Drive would be a huge improvement.
Is there any way to enjoy the benefits of both Google Docs and markdown? Or are these writing platforms largely incompatible? Any elegant solutions I'm not thinking of?
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I've become rather fond of Markdown and think it would be rather well suited to emails.
How do I set up Gmail to allow me to format reading and sending emails in Markdown? Is this even possible?
If worse comes to worse, I'd be open to another email service that offered a Markdown editor. One that will also parse Markdown formatted (which often look like plain-text) emails.
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According to the GitHub documentation, the Markdown syntax for inserting an image is:
Format: 
Following their example syntax, I can't seem to be able to make it work.
Even the GitHub logo example does not work.
What am I missing? Or is it a GitHub bug?
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Trello accepts Markdown in card descriptions and it even helpfully links to the Markdown syntax page.
That page mentions that "for any markup that is not covered by Markdown’s syntax, you simply use HTML itself".
However, using <del> for example to strike through text does not result in satisfactory output. Neither does using some other HTML tags like <strong> or <em>.
Admittedly, <strong> or <em> really don't have to work because Markdown supports bold and italic formatting, however Markdown unfortunately lacks in <del> department, and probably in others too.
Is there a way to show that a text previously existed but now does not, in Trello, if strikethrough is not available?
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I have gotten used to the text editor and format of Stack Exchange (Markdown), which is much better to describe a question than mail editor.
Sometimes I want to describe a problem/question to a colleague or my supervisor, but I do not want to send them a link of Stack Exchange directly. Does anyone know if there is a PasteBin site where we could paste some texts in Markdown, and get a link?
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When using wiki syntax, if I put an asterisk (*) at the beginning of a line, it gets transformed into a unordered list. How is it possible to have the asterisk to remain as it is when at the beginning of a line?
Example :
*Hello world, this sentence is not in an unordered list.
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How do I use Markdown in Trello to format a simple address where address items are not all on the same line?.
Here's an example address I want to format:
George Smith 27 Smith Street Smithsville
I can't get it to format properly. It should have "single line" spacing. "George Smith" would be on its own line, followed by "27 Smith Street" on the next and then "Smithsville".
Something like this:
George Smith
27 Smith Street
Smithsville
Like a list, but without bullets. I can't work it out.
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I post using Tumblr's markdown support. I've tried embedding my gist snippets as links, etc. but can't seem to figure out the right combination. If I post using html, the gist links work fine. I would rather use markdown, how can I do this?
Updated with examples
I tried it with a basic embedded script tag, which didn't produce anything.
<script src="https://gist.github.com/1256020.js?file=gistfile1.rb"></script>
I also tried it with a reference to the script tag
[gist][1]
.
.
.
[1][<script src="https://gist.github.com/1256020.js?file=gistfile1.rb"></script>]
I also tried other variations of embedding the hyperlink but nothing would show up on the page.
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I would prefer not to use Markdown in the Card Descriptions in Trello as I often use include words that contain underscores. Is there a setting to turn Markdown off?
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Card descriptions in Trello can accept markdown syntax, but Activity comments seem to be plain text only. Is there some setting I can change to allow Markdown in activity comments as well?
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The markdown syntax says that you can use regular HTML and specifically mentions <table> as being possible. The only restrictions being that you have blank lines before and after the table, and that the <table> and </table> tags are not indented.
But this doesn't appear to work in Trello.
Is this just not supported, or is there a way to do this that I'm missing?
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