The Leanpub Flavoured Markdown Manual

The Leanpub Flavoured Markdown Manual

Peter Armstrong
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Table of Contents

The Leanpub Flavoured Markdown Manual

  • Introduction
    • Leanpub Flavoured Markdown vs. Markua
    • Switching Writing Modes
    • Scope of this Manual
  • Book.txt, Sample.txt and Manuscript Files
    • The Book.txt File
    • Making a Sample Book for Readers to Browse for Free
    • Adding Images or Pictures to Your Book
    • A Note About Character Encoding
  • How Markdown is Used in Leanpub
  • Attributes
  • Creating A New Book
    • How To Set The Book’s Structure
  • Sample Books
    • Why Sample Books?
    • Consequences for Manuscripts
  • Images
    • How To Insert An Image
    • Image Format And Resolution
    • Positioning An Image On The Page
  • Languages and Letter Accents
    • Setting the Main Language Used in the Book
    • Overriding Leanpub Language Defaults
    • Switching back and forth between language fonts
    • A note about writing Leanpub books in Japanese, Korean and Chinese
    • A note about writing Leanpub books in right-to-left (RTL) languages
  • Parts, Chapters and Sections
    • Parts
    • Chapters, Sections and Sub-sections
    • Table of Contents
    • Front Matter, Main Matter and Back Matter
  • Styling Text
    • Bold, Emphasis/Italics, and Underlining
    • Superscripts
    • Monospaced Text
    • Non-Breaking Spaces
  • Blocks Of Text
    • Paragraphs
    • Centering Paragraphs Or Lines Of Text
    • Numbered/Ordered Lists
    • Unordered/Bulleted Lists
    • Definition Lists
    • Blockquotes
    • Asides/Sidebars
    • More Text Block Types
    • Warning!
    • Tips
    • Errors
    • Information
    • Questions
    • Discussions
    • Exercises
    • Generic Boxes
  • Code
    • Code Samples
    • Code Sample Titles
    • Marking lines as deleted or added to a code block
  • Poetry
    • Poetry Stanzas in Regular Markdown
    • Spacing Control for Poetry
    • Line Lengths
  • Links
    • Formatting Links
    • Long Hyperlinks
    • Footnotes and Hyperlinks in PDF
  • Footnotes and Endnotes
    • Footnotes
    • Endnotes
    • Remove Footnotes
  • Crosslinks
    • Quick Explanation
    • Longer Explanation
    • Crosslinking to something with an ID
    • Some Crosslink Details
  • Breaks
    • Pagebreaks
    • Line Breaks
  • Tables
    • Table Width
    • Multi-line rows
    • Alignment and footer rows
    • Table Titles
    • HTML Tables
    • A note on combining attributes
  • Miscellaneous
    • Escaping Markdown Syntax Characters
    • How To Exclude Lines From Your Book
    • Mathematical Equations
    • Curly Quotes
    • Figure Captions and Labels
    • Links In Footnotes
    • Why can’t I put section commands in Book.txt?
    • Trouble With Accents? Forcing Text Editors To Save As UTF-8
    • I don’t understand how things get added to a Table of Contents
    • What encoding should I use to write files in Markdown? Should I write in ASCII or UTF-8?
    • How Can I Add Blank Lines To My Text?
    • Adding a motto or epigraph to the beginning of a chapter
    • Disabling Line Numbers While Nesting Code Blocks In Lists
    • Indentation
    • Hanging Indents
    • Long strings of characters running off the right-hand side of the page / the right margin
  • Notes
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  1. Introduction

  2. Book.txt, Sample.txt and Manuscript Files

  3. How Markdown is Used in Leanpub

  4. Attributes

  5. Creating A New Book

  6. Sample Books

  7. Images

  8. Languages and Letter Accents

  9. Parts, Chapters and Sections

  10. Styling Text

  11. Blocks Of Text

  12. Code

  13. Poetry

  14. Links

  15. Footnotes and Endnotes

  16. Crosslinks

  17. Breaks

  18. Tables

  19. Miscellaneous

  20. Notes