` tags in the HTML output. For example, this input:
+
+ * Bird
+ * Magic
+
+will turn into:
+
+
+
+
+It's worth noting that it's possible to trigger an ordered list by
+accident, by writing something like this:
+
+ 1986. What a great season.
+
+In other words, a *number-period-space* sequence at the beginning of a
+line. To avoid this, you can backslash-escape the period:
+
+ 1986\. What a great season.
+
+
+
+Code Blocks
+
+Pre-formatted code blocks are used for writing about programming or
+markup source code. Rather than forming normal paragraphs, the lines
+of a code block are interpreted literally. Markdown wraps a code block
+in both `` and `` tags.
+
+To produce a code block in Markdown, simply indent every line of the
+block by at least 4 spaces or 1 tab. For example, given this input:
+
+ This is a normal paragraph:
+
+ This is a code block.
+
+Markdown will generate:
+
+ This is a normal paragraph:
+
+ This is a code block.
+
+
+One level of indentation -- 4 spaces or 1 tab -- is removed from each
+line of the code block. For example, this:
+
+ Here is an example of AppleScript:
+
+ tell application "Foo"
+ beep
+ end tell
+
+will turn into:
+
+ Here is an example of AppleScript:
+
+ tell application "Foo"
+ beep
+ end tell
+
+
+A code block continues until it reaches a line that is not indented
+(or the end of the article).
+
+Within a code block, ampersands (`&`) and angle brackets (`<` and `>`)
+are automatically converted into HTML entities. This makes it very
+easy to include example HTML source code using Markdown -- just paste
+it and indent it, and Markdown will handle the hassle of encoding the
+ampersands and angle brackets. For example, this:
+
+
+
+will turn into:
+
+ <div class="footer">
+ © 2004 Foo Corporation
+ </div>
+
+
+Regular Markdown syntax is not processed within code blocks. E.g.,
+asterisks are just literal asterisks within a code block. This means
+it's also easy to use Markdown to write about Markdown's own syntax.
+
+
+
+Horizontal Rules
+
+You can produce a horizontal rule tag (`
`) by placing three or
+more hyphens, asterisks, or underscores on a line by themselves. If you
+wish, you may use spaces between the hyphens or asterisks. Each of the
+following lines will produce a horizontal rule:
+
+ * * *
+
+ ***
+
+ *****
+
+ - - -
+
+ ---------------------------------------
+
+
+* * *
+
+Span Elements
+
+Links
+
+Markdown supports two style of links: *inline* and *reference*.
+
+In both styles, the link text is delimited by [square brackets].
+
+To create an inline link, use a set of regular parentheses immediately
+after the link text's closing square bracket. Inside the parentheses,
+put the URL where you want the link to point, along with an *optional*
+title for the link, surrounded in quotes. For example:
+
+ This is [an example](http://example.com/ "Title") inline link.
+
+ [This link](http://example.net/) has no title attribute.
+
+Will produce:
+
+ This is
+ an example inline link.
+
+ This link has no
+ title attribute.
+
+If you're referring to a local resource on the same server, you can
+use relative paths:
+
+ See my [About](/about/) page for details.
+
+Reference-style links use a second set of square brackets, inside
+which you place a label of your choosing to identify the link:
+
+ This is [an example][id] reference-style link.
+
+You can optionally use a space to separate the sets of brackets:
+
+ This is [an example] [id] reference-style link.
+
+Then, anywhere in the document, you define your link label like this,
+on a line by itself:
+
+ [id]: http://example.com/ "Optional Title Here"
+
+That is:
+
+* Square brackets containing the link identifier (optionally
+ indented from the left margin using up to three spaces);
+* followed by a colon;
+* followed by one or more spaces (or tabs);
+* followed by the URL for the link;
+* optionally followed by a title attribute for the link, enclosed
+ in double or single quotes, or enclosed in parentheses.
+
+The following three link definitions are equivalent:
+
+ [foo]: http://example.com/ "Optional Title Here"
+ [foo]: http://example.com/ 'Optional Title Here'
+ [foo]: http://example.com/ (Optional Title Here)
+
+**Note:** There is a known bug in Markdown.pl 1.0.1 which prevents
+single quotes from being used to delimit link titles.
+
+The link URL may, optionally, be surrounded by angle brackets:
+
+ [id]: "Optional Title Here"
+
+You can put the title attribute on the next line and use extra spaces
+or tabs for padding, which tends to look better with longer URLs:
+
+ [id]: http://example.com/longish/path/to/resource/here
+ "Optional Title Here"
+
+Link definitions are only used for creating links during Markdown
+processing, and are stripped from your document in the HTML output.
+
+Link definition names may consist of letters, numbers, spaces, and
+punctuation -- but they are *not* case sensitive. E.g. these two
+links:
+
+ [link text][a]
+ [link text][A]
+
+are equivalent.
+
+The *implicit link name* shortcut allows you to omit the name of the
+link, in which case the link text itself is used as the name.
+Just use an empty set of square brackets -- e.g., to link the word
+"Google" to the google.com web site, you could simply write:
+
+ [Google][]
+
+And then define the link:
+
+ [Google]: http://google.com/
+
+Because link names may contain spaces, this shortcut even works for
+multiple words in the link text:
+
+ Visit [Daring Fireball][] for more information.
+
+And then define the link:
+
+ [Daring Fireball]: http://daringfireball.net/
+
+Link definitions can be placed anywhere in your Markdown document. I
+tend to put them immediately after each paragraph in which they're
+used, but if you want, you can put them all at the end of your
+document, sort of like footnotes.
+
+Here's an example of reference links in action:
+
+ I get 10 times more traffic from [Google] [1] than from
+ [Yahoo] [2] or [MSN] [3].
+
+ [1]: http://google.com/ "Google"
+ [2]: http://search.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Search"
+ [3]: http://search.msn.com/ "MSN Search"
+
+Using the implicit link name shortcut, you could instead write:
+
+ I get 10 times more traffic from [Google][] than from
+ [Yahoo][] or [MSN][].
+
+ [google]: http://google.com/ "Google"
+ [yahoo]: http://search.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Search"
+ [msn]: http://search.msn.com/ "MSN Search"
+
+Both of the above examples will produce the following HTML output:
+
+ I get 10 times more traffic from Google than from
+ Yahoo
+ or MSN.
+
+For comparison, here is the same paragraph written using
+Markdown's inline link style:
+
+ I get 10 times more traffic from [Google](http://google.com/ "Google")
+ than from [Yahoo](http://search.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Search") or
+ [MSN](http://search.msn.com/ "MSN Search").
+
+The point of reference-style links is not that they're easier to
+write. The point is that with reference-style links, your document
+source is vastly more readable. Compare the above examples: using
+reference-style links, the paragraph itself is only 81 characters
+long; with inline-style links, it's 176 characters; and as raw HTML,
+it's 234 characters. In the raw HTML, there's more markup than there
+is text.
+
+With Markdown's reference-style links, a source document much more
+closely resembles the final output, as rendered in a browser. By
+allowing you to move the markup-related metadata out of the paragraph,
+you can add links without interrupting the narrative flow of your
+prose.
+
+
+Emphasis
+
+Markdown treats asterisks (`*`) and underscores (`_`) as indicators of
+emphasis. Text wrapped with one `*` or `_` will be wrapped with an
+HTML `` tag; double `*`'s or `_`'s will be wrapped with an HTML
+`` tag. E.g., this input:
+
+ *single asterisks*
+
+ _single underscores_
+
+ **double asterisks**
+
+ __double underscores__
+
+will produce:
+
+ single asterisks
+
+ single underscores
+
+ double asterisks
+
+ double underscores
+
+You can use whichever style you prefer; the lone restriction is that
+the same character must be used to open and close an emphasis span.
+
+Emphasis can be used in the middle of a word:
+
+ un*frigging*believable
+
+But if you surround an `*` or `_` with spaces, it'll be treated as a
+literal asterisk or underscore.
+
+To produce a literal asterisk or underscore at a position where it
+would otherwise be used as an emphasis delimiter, you can backslash
+escape it:
+
+ \*this text is surrounded by literal asterisks\*
+
+
+
+Code
+
+To indicate a span of code, wrap it with backtick quotes (`` ` ``).
+Unlike a pre-formatted code block, a code span indicates code within a
+normal paragraph. For example:
+
+ Use the `printf()` function.
+
+will produce:
+
+ Use the printf() function.
+
+To include a literal backtick character within a code span, you can use
+multiple backticks as the opening and closing delimiters:
+
+ ``There is a literal backtick (`) here.``
+
+which will produce this:
+
+ There is a literal backtick (`) here.
+
+The backtick delimiters surrounding a code span may include spaces --
+one after the opening, one before the closing. This allows you to place
+literal backtick characters at the beginning or end of a code span:
+
+ A single backtick in a code span: `` ` ``
+
+ A backtick-delimited string in a code span: `` `foo` ``
+
+will produce:
+
+ A single backtick in a code span: `
+
+ A backtick-delimited string in a code span: `foo`
+
+With a code span, ampersands and angle brackets are encoded as HTML
+entities automatically, which makes it easy to include example HTML
+tags. Markdown will turn this:
+
+ Please don't use any `