Markdown Reference: Tables, Footnotes, and Images

Demonstration content. This page is a rendering reference for the site’s Markdown styles.

This article lives in its own folder (markdown-reference/index.md) so that its image can sit next to it. Its URL comes from the folder name.

Text formatting

Paragraphs support strong emphasis, emphasis, ~~strikethrough~~, inline code, and keyboard shortcuts such as Ctrl + K. Straight quotes become “curly quotes”, and two hyphens become an en dash — like this.

Lists

Ordered lists keep their numbering.
They can contain nested lists:
- Unordered items use bullets.
- Nesting works to any depth.
And they can continue afterwards.

Task lists render checkboxes.
Unchecked items are shown too.

Block quotes

A block quote is set off from the surrounding text with a rule on its left.

It can span multiple paragraphs.

Tables

Wide tables scroll horizontally inside their own region, so they never widen the page:

Language	Typical file extension	Paradigm	Memory management	Typical use in this site’s articles
C	`.c`, `.h`	Procedural	Manual	Low-level examples
C++	`.cpp`, `.hpp`	Multi-paradigm	Manual and RAII	Systems and graphics examples
Rust	`.rs`	Multi-paradigm	Ownership and borrowing	Systems examples
TypeScript	`.ts`	Multi-paradigm, statically typed	Garbage collected	Tooling and web examples

Images

Images placed next to an article are optimized at build time and served in modern formats:

A five-stage pipeline: Markdown, Validate, Render, Index, Deploy, connected left to right by arrows.

Footnotes and references

Footnotes collect at the end of the article¹, and each one links back to where it was referenced². Links to other sites, like the CommonMark specification (external link), are marked as external.

Horizontal rules, like the one above, separate sections without adding a heading.

Footnotes use the GitHub-flavored Markdown syntax: [^label] in the text and [^label]: text anywhere in the document. ↩
The back-link arrow returns to the reference in the text. ↩

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