Markdown Test

2026-07-12

This is an automatic translation of the German original.

This post tests the Markdown elements I usually use.

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Text formatting

Bold, italic, bold and italic, strikethrough and underline. Underline only exists in Markdown as raw HTML.

And inline code in the middle of a sentence.

Lists

Unordered, nested:

• First item
• Second item
  • Sub-item
  • Another sub-item
• Third item

Ordered:

1. First
2. Second
3. Third

Task list:

• Done
• Open

Quotes

A quote spanning several lines that simply keeps going.

And a nested quote inside it.

Links

• Inline: matthias.sh on GitHub
• Automatic: https://github.com/matthiasdotsh/matthias.sh
• As reference: the repository

Image

Table

Code blocks

Nix:

{ pkgs, ... }:
{
  environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.zola ];
}

Python:

def greet(name: str) -> str:
    return f"Hello, {name}!"

Without a language tag (no highlighting):

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Horizontal rule

Footnotes

A sentence with a footnote.¹

Emoji

Emoji via shortcode: ✨ 🚲 🎺, and directly as Unicode: 🎺🚲

Callout boxes (GitHub alerts)

A neutral note.

A helpful tip.

A warning that should stand out.

Definition list

Zola

A static site generator written in Rust.

Nix

Package manager and language for reproducible builds.

Math

LaTeX syntax is not rendered by Zola on its own. If I write the formula as $$a^2 + b^2 = c^2$$, it stays literal:

$$ a^2 + b^2 = c^2 $$

Real math still works without JavaScript, using MathML, which browsers render natively. I generate it once from LaTeX (for example with pandoc) and paste the <math> markup straight in. The same formula, now rendered:

$$a^2 + b^2 = c^2$$

It works inline just as well, for example the Pythagorean theorem $a^2 + b^2 = c^2$ with no line break.

It needs no JavaScript and no external requests, so it fits the rest of the site. The trade-off is a longer source, since the generated <math> markup lives in the post instead of a plain $…$.