The Markua 0.29 Beta Manual
Last updated on 2019-11-11
About the Book
About the Author
Table of Contents
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Introduction
- The Magical Typewriter
- How to Write a Novel in Markua
- How to Write a Computer Programming Book in Markua
- How to Write a Course (MOOC) in Markua
- Markua: Markdown for Books and Courses
- Why the Name “Markua”?
- The Markua Manual vs. The Markua Spec
- Differences with Leanpub Flavoured Markdown (LFM)
- Acknowledgments
- Text Formatting
- Headings
- Paragraphs and Blank Lines
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Resources
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Resource Insertion Methods
- Figures
- Spans
- Inserting Resources Into a Span Context
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Resource Locations
- Local Resources
- Web Resources
- Inline Resources
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Resource Types and Formats
- Images
- Video
- Audio
- Code
- Math
- Tables
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Resource Insertion Methods
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Whitespace: Spaces, Tabs and Newlines
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Newlines
- Single Newline = Forced Line Break
- Three or More Newlines = Two Newlines = One Blank Line
- One Blank Line Is Added When Concatenating Manuscript Files
- All Blank Lines at the Beginning and End of a File are Removed
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Spaces and Tabs
- Spaces and Tabs at the Beginning of a Line are Only to Determine List Containment, and Extra Spaces are Removed
- Spaces and Tabs at the End of a Line are Removed
- Internal Spaces are Collapsed to One Space, Except At the End of Sentences
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Newlines
- Lists
- Definition Lists
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Block Elements
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Scene Breaks (
* * *) -
Blockquotes (
>) -
Asides (
A>or{aside}) -
Blurbs (
B>or{blurb})- Supported Attributes for Blurbs
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Syntactic Sugar for Specific Blurb Classes:
D>,E>,I>,Q,T,W>,X> -
Using Blurbs to Center Text with
C> -
Using Extension Attributes on Blurbs to add
iconSupport
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Scene Breaks (
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Quizzes and Exercises
- Quiz and Exercise Headings and Other Content
- An Empty Quiz or Exercise is Not an Error
- A Malformed Quiz or Exercise is an Error
- Supported Attributes on Quizzes and/or Exercises
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Question Types: Multiple Choice, Fill In The Blank
- Multiple Choice Questions
- Fill In The Blank Questions
- Creating a Course or MOOC from a Markua Document
- Question Alternates
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Span Elements
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Links
- Inline Links
- Automatic Links
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Explicitly Creating Spans with
[…]- Sometimes a Square Bracket is Just a Square Bracket
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Footnotes and Endnotes
- Footnotes
- Endnotes
- Single Reference to Footnotes and Endnotes
- Footnotes and Endnotes Support Required for Paragraphs Only
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Crosslinks and ids
- Defining an id
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Referencing an
idWith a Crosslink -
Rules for
ids and Crosslinks
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Character Substitution (
X--for X—,X --for X –,...for …)- Optional Automatic Curly Quotes Outside of Code Blocks and Spans
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Escaping Special Characters with Backslash (
\) -
Code Spans and Backticks (
`)
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Links
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Metadata
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Attributes
- Attribute List Format
- Attribute Keys
- Attribute Values
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idAttributes -
titleAttributes -
Conditional Inclusion Attributes on Headings:
book,sample
- Directives
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Attributes
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Appendices
- No Inline HTML
- Differences with Markdown
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