The Markua 0.10 Manual

Introduction

1. The Magical Typewriter
2. How to Write a Novel in Markua 0.10
3. How to Write a Computer Programming Book in Markua
4. How to Write a Course (MOOC) in Markua
5. Markua: Markdown for Books and Courses
6. Why the Name “Markua”?
7. The Markua Manual vs. The Markua Spec
8. Markua 0.10 and Markua 0.30
9. Differences with Leanpub Flavoured Markdown (LFM)
10. Acknowledgments

Text Formatting

Headings

Paragraphs and Blank Lines

Resources

1. Resource Insertion Methods
2. Resource Locations
3. Resource Types and Formats

A Note to Authors New to Writing in Plain Text

Whitespace: Spaces, Tabs and Newlines

1. Newlines
2. Spaces and Tabs

Lists

Definition Lists

Block Elements

1. Scene Breaks (* * *)
2. Blockquotes (>)
3. Asides (A> or {aside})
4. Blurbs (B> or {blurb})

Quizzes and Exercises

1. Quiz and Exercise Headings and Other Content
2. An Empty Quiz or Exercise is Not an Error
3. A Malformed Quiz or Exercise is an Error
4. Supported Attributes on Quizzes and/or Exercises
5. Question Types: Multiple Choice, Fill In The Blank
6. Creating a Course or MOOC from a Markua Document
7. Question Alternates

Span Elements

1. Links
2. Explicitly Creating Spans with […]
3. Footnotes and Endnotes
4. Crosslinks and ids
5. Character Substitution (X-- for X—, X -- for X –, ... for …)
6. Escaping Special Characters with Backslash (\)
7. Code Spans and Backticks (`)

Metadata

1. Attributes
2. Directives
3. Page Breaks

Appendices

1. No Inline HTML
2. Differences with Markdown