Instant Markdown -- Instant Markdown -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.packtpub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- packtlib.packtpub.com -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- 1. Instant Markdown -- So, what is Markdown? -- The main features of Markdown -- Installation -- Step 1 - Prerequisites -- Step 2 - Downloading and installing Perl -- MS Windows -- Mac OS X -- Linux distributions -- Step 3 - Verifying that Perl is working -- Step 4 - Downloading Markdown -- Step 5 - Running Markdown -- And that's it!! -- Quick start - Creating your first Markdown document -- Step 1 - Inserting paragraph and line breaks -- Step 2 - Inserting headers -- Setext style -- Atx style -- Step 3 - Inserting emphasis -- Step 4 - Inserting lists -- Ordered lists -- Unordered lists -- Nested lists -- Step 5 - Inserting links -- Inline -- Reference -- Step 6 - Inserting automatic links -- Step 7 - Inserting blockquotes -- Step 8 - Inserting code blocks -- Step 9 - Inserting code spans -- Step 10 - Inserting images -- Inline -- Reference -- Step 11 - Inserting horizontal rules -- Step 12 - Inserting backslash escapes -- Step 13 - Inserting HTML -- Top 8 features you'll want to know about -- 1 - Forum and discussion -- GitHub Flavored Markdown -- Newlines -- Multiple underscores in words -- URL autolinking -- Fenced code blocks -- Syntax highlighting -- 2 - Writing e-mails -- 3 - Sharing a single document -- 4 - Blogging -- Scriptogr.am -- Step one -- Step two -- Step three -- 5 - To-do lists -- 6 - Presentations -- 7 - Converting files to other formats -- 8 - Markdown extensions -- Footnotes -- Tables -- Citations -- Math -- People and places you should get to know -- Official sites: -- Articles: -- Community: -- Twitter:.