A Plain Markdown Post

with a subtitle…

Posted by Yihui Xie on February 14, 2016

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. {Example} [blogdown, Markdown, KaTeX, Pandoc, RStudio]

Sample Text

Third-level header

Fourth-level header

B A paragraph (with a footnote):

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.1

* * *

A blockquote (a gray bar at the left and lightgray background):

Quisque mattis volutpat lorem vitae feugiat. Praesent porta est quis porta imperdiet. Aenean porta, mi non cursus volutpat, mi est mollis libero, id suscipit orci urna a augue. In fringilla euismod lacus, vitae tristique massa ultricies vitae. Mauris accumsan ligula tristique, viverra nulla sed, porta sapien. Vestibulum facilisis nec nisl blandit convallis. Maecenas venenatis porta malesuada. Ut ac erat tortor. Orci varius natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Nulla sodales quam sit amet tincidunt egestas. In et turpis at orci vestibulum ullamcorper. Aliquam sed ante libero. Sed hendrerit arcu lacus.

— by Someone

A full-width piece of syntax-highlighted code with a drop-shadow effect:

// right-align a quote footer if it starts with ---
[...document.getElementsByTagName('blockquote')].forEach(quote => {
  const el = quote.lastElementChild;
  if (el?.tagName === 'P' && /^(—|---)/.test(el.textContent)) el.style.textAlign = 'right';
});

A full-width table:

Sepal.LengthSepal.WidthPetal.LengthPetal.WidthSpecies
5.13.51.40.2setosa
4.93.01.40.2setosa
4.73.21.30.2setosa
4.63.11.50.2setosa
5.03.61.40.2setosa
5.43.91.70.4setosa

An image (automatically centered):

Happy Elmo

A math equation (render by KaTeX):

$$|x| = \begin{cases} x & \text{if } x \geq 0 \\ -x & \text{if } x < 0 \end{cases}$$

How about Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V?

Another Section

Looks good?

Hope you will enjoy it.


  1. I’m sure you are bored by the text here. ↩︎