When trying to teach someone markdown and avoid actually rendering it, it helps to use backticks (usually at the top left of your keyboard, next to the tilde ~). That way you don’t have to worry about potentially confusing them by saying things like “do this, but with no spaces”. You give them something they could just copy/paste directly.
Example:
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becomes
you can also do this with the built-in code button < >, but i had no clue about the ! in markdown to make pictures. I guess I should have pressed the help button because it tells you right there D=
I swear I used to be able to just copy-paste the picture URL over a segment of text which automatically does the []() parts for you, but I notice it excludes the !. Maybe that was only ever working for text links and I just forgot? Who knows.
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No spaces between segments
When trying to teach someone markdown and avoid actually rendering it, it helps to use backticks (usually at the top left of your keyboard, next to the tilde ~). That way you don’t have to worry about potentially confusing them by saying things like “do this, but with no spaces”. You give them something they could just copy/paste directly.
Example:
``becomes
Thanks
you can also do this with the built-in code button
< >, but i had no clue about the ! in markdown to make pictures. I guess I should have pressed the help button because it tells you right there D=Definitely good to know that simple button is an option, because it can be tough to remember all these little specifics about Markdown syntax
I swear I used to be able to just copy-paste the picture URL over a segment of text which automatically does the
[]()parts for you, but I notice it excludes the!. Maybe that was only ever working for text links and I just forgot? Who knows.Worked like a charm! I’ll have to remember that trick while the migration thing is in progress.