Work with markdown files

In any text editor you can create rich text for a web page that has formatting, headers, and lists using markdown syntax. Markdown is a very lightweight markup language that follows an easy to read and write syntax. When you import a markdown text file into Inspire, it's stored as a Binary file, which normally can't be edited in Oxygen. However, with markdown files you can edit them, view contents and file properties, and manage them in the Components browser.

You can't review a markdown file. You can include this type of file in a review, but it is included as read-only to give context. Reviewers can't add comments or make changes to a markdown file.

Markdown vs. HTML

You can use the following examples to understand the difference between the markdown and HTML languages.

Hypertext Markup Language is a standardized system for tagging text files to create font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages.

Markdown, like HTML, allows you to specify text formatting, but it is far less expressive than HTML. It is only meant to format text and not create full web pages.

Example 1: Paragraphs

<p>Hello, this is a paragraph.</p>

<p>This is a new paragraph!</p>

Hello, this is a paragraph.

This is a new paragraph!

Example 2: Bullet lists

<ul>

</ul>

+ Item 1

+ Item 2

+ Item 3