Markdown as we use it

Last modified: 9/17/2026

Markdown as we use it

Pages here are written in Markdown, the plain-text format where # Title makes a heading and - item makes a bullet. We follow CommonMark, the standard version of Markdown, and add a few things of our own. Together this is called NGDP-Compatible Markdown, or NCM.

This page is the reference for how to write a page. It has two parts:

What works

Standard Markdown

All of it: headings, paragraphs, bold and italic, links, images, quotes, lists, code, horizontal lines, and some HTML.

Our additions

Good to know

Doesn't work

How we write it

```bash
./server.sh status
```

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