
To format text as italic, enclose it in a single asterisk: This text is *italic*. To format text as bold, enclose it in two asterisks: This text is **bold**. It is usually rendered indented and with a different background color. The preceding example renders as follows: Blockquotesīlockquotes are created using the > character: > This is a blockquote. For more information, see smart quote replacement. To avoid "smart" characters in your Markdown files, rely on the Docs Authoring Pack's smart quote replacement feature.
Left (opening) single quotation mark (rarely used): ‘. Right (closing) single quotation mark or apostrophe: ’. Here are the encodings for the "smart" versions of these punctuation marks: Otherwise, you end up with things like this when the file is published: It’s These need to be encoded or changed to basic apostrophes or quotation marks. If you copy from Word into a Markdown editor, the text might contain "smart" (curly) apostrophes or quotation marks. Otherwise, Markdown thinks that they're intended to be an HTML tag.įor example, encode as