Markdown
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Markdown is an easy and powerful way to format your descriptions and long text fields using simple, natural syntax.
-> Creates italic and bold
-> Creates an inline link:
-> Creates an auto-generated link:
Looks like:
Milk
Cookies
Marshmallows
Looks like:
California
Texas
New York
We also support linking to elements, connections and loops (even other maps in your account).
You can use the following syntax:
Selectors
Maps
Views
Replace alt text with an image caption that screen readers can read, and replace image-url with a link to your image.
Looks like:
Heading 4
Heading 5
Heading 6
Simply indent lines with four spaces or wrap the code with three backticks:
Looks like:
Looks like:
Add quote text here
Blue
White
Gray
Green
Yellow
Red
Kumu's markdown editor also recognizes a limited amount of inline HTML.
Here are the tags you can use in Kumu, anywhere that accepts markdown:
And here are the HTML attributes that use can use for each tag:
Good news for people using Kumu in science, math, or academia—anywhere you write Markdown in Kumu, you can also write LaTeX to include equations!
You can write LaTeX inline or on its own separate line. To write inline, put two dollar signs on either side of your LaTeX code, like so:
Here's what you would see:
Or, for more complex expressions, you can write inside a codeblock marked as latex, like so:
Here's what you would see:
Replace link text with the text for your link, and replace selector with any valid .
Replace link text with the text for your link, and replace map-slug with the of your map.
Replace link text with the text for your link, replace map-slug with the of your map, and replace view-slug .with the of your view.
See our guide to to learn more about embedding videos, podcasts, slideshows, and other interactive content inside markdown.
Learn how to create anchors that skip to certain sections of your map description .
If you are using Markdown in the Description column of an , you will have to use the rather than the usual Markdown syntax. Make sure to remove all line breaks from your HTML, or your table will render with a large white space above it.
Now you know the basics of formatting with markdown! For more information, visit .
Learn how to create anchors that skip to certain sections of your map description .
Learn how to add text dropdowns that show/hide additional text upon click .
Kumu uses a tool called KaTeX to render these equations. For a full list of supported equations, .
