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The first explorations of Hugo and markdown by a .net developer

.net / aws / hugo / development

As part of build my own site I’ve decided to leave the test page up to show how I went about experimenting with the different elements that make up a Hugo static page. This page uses some of the tutorial pages proveded with the Blackburn

Getting a Grip on Headings

Daring Fireball have a great guide to basic markdown syntax. A good place to start is headings. They break up content neatly and can help transition subjects.

Markdown supports two styles of headers, Setext and atx.

-Daring Fireball

Using a single tabbed indent with at least one empty line in between I can present non-formatted text to show the different type of headings.

There are setext style headers that use underlines:

This is an H1
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This is an H2
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And there are Atx style headers which use the amount of hashes before to show the level of header desired:

# This is an H1

## This is an H2

###### This is an H6

Let’s list some things

  1. This is the first item in a list
  2. this is the second
    1. This is also the fist item in a sub list