Markdown indented codebox install#
Markdown indented codebox windows#

Markdown indented codebox install#

You can also use SciTE to paste code if you don't want to install heavy IDEs and then download plugins for all the code you're making.

Markdown indented codebox windows#

(The main problem? Printed pages typically aren't as wide as editor windows so wrapping will suck.) :-)Īn advantage of doing it this way is that it is easy to adapt to whatever code you're doing you don't have to rely on some IDE to figure out whatever is going on for you. Long chunks of code probably should not normally be in something that's going to go on a dead tree.

It's then pretty simple to go through and mark up a pasted example as being code and have it come out looking really good, and this is works well for short snippets. I then create additional character styles on top (e.g., ' Comment', ' String', ' Keyword', ' Function Name Decl', ' Variable Name Decl') which I layer on top those set the color and whether the text is bold/italic. I also make sure that inter-line and inter-paragraph spacing are set right. What I do is create a paragraph style (perhaps called ' Code Example' or something like that) which uses a monospaced font, carefully chosen tabs, a very light grey background, a thin black border above and below (that helps visibility a lot) and with spelling turned off. You might also like to read more about including Markdown tables in your document, and my tricks to center stuff in Markdown.When I've done this, I've made extensive use of styles. Make sure to also check out my Markdown cheat sheet for a quick overview of what’s possible. xml – XML and also used for HTML with inline CSS and Javascript.Here’s the list of commonly supported languages on sites like GitHub: Alternatively, visit the documentation of your specific Markdown.

If your language isn’t in here, I suggest you simply try if it is supported.

What follows here, is a list of many common languages and formats that you can try. Which languages are supported, heavily depends on the Markdown parser you’re using. If possible, I strongly suggest using fenced code blocks.

Indented code blocks are less convient to insert in your document.

You can’t specify a language, so most likely you won’t have syntax highlighting.

However, there are some downsides to using indented code blocks as well: The upside of this method is that it is supported by pretty much all Markdown parsers, as far as I know.