HEADERS
# This is an h1 tag
## This is an h2 tag
###### This is an h6 tag
LISTS
Unordered
* Item 1
* Item 2
* Item 2a
* Item 2b
Ordered
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
* Item 3a
* Item 3b
EMPHASIS
*This text will be italic*
_This will also be italic_
**This text will be bold**
__This will also be bold__
*You **can** combine them*
BLOCKQUOTES
As Grace Hopper said:
> I’ve always been more interested
> in the future than in the past.
IMAGES
[GitHub Logo](/images/logo.png)
Format: 
LINKS
http://github.com - automatic!
[GitHub](http://github.com)
BACKSLASH ESCAPES
Markdown allows you to use backslash escapes to generate literal characters which
would otherwise have special meaning in Markdown’s forma ing syntax.
Markdown provides backslash escapes for
the following characters:
\*literal asterisks\*
\ backslash
` backtick
* asterisk
_ underscore
{} curly braces
[] square brackets
() parentheses
# hash mark
+ plus sign
- minus sign (hyphen)
. dot
! exclamation mark
