My simplified markdown syntax cheatsheet

Simplified Markdown Cheatsheet

Special symbols for formatting in Markdown

Heading
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Sub-heading
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# A large heading

### Another heading, but smaller still

####### You can put up to 8 # here to get to the smallest header style

Paragraphs are separated by blank lines.

Leave 2 spaces at the  
end of a line to do a line break.

Text attributes
*italic* 
**bold**
~~strikethrough~~

A [link](http://example.com)

A list:

* one item
* another item
* something else

Numbered list:

1. first thing
2. second thing
    * They can be
    * combined too
        A. even further