We use Markdown for formatting the text. This is a simple method to indicate headers, make lists, indicate that words should be italic or bold, and include links in the text.

• Formatting text
• Making lists
• Including code
• Linking to other pages
• Including images
• Creating headers
• Meta-data at the top of the page
• Other formatting tricks

Formatting text

To give text special emphasis by rendering it italic, you put it between *’s. To render it bold you put it between **’s, so double stars. To render it bold and italic, you use triple asterisks, so ***.

*italic*, **bold**, ***bold italic***

renders to:

italic, bold, bold italic

Making lists

If you want to make a list of items you can just start a number of lines with an asterisk *, a - or a +. For example:

* one item
* another item
* and also this item

renders to:

• one item
• another item
• and also this item

If you want to make a multi-level item list, add a tab in front of the sublist:

* one item
    * a sub item
    * another sub item
* another item
* and also this item

renders to:

• one item
  • a sub item
  • another sub item
• another item
• and also this item

You can create a numbered list just by numbering the items:

1. one item
    1. a sub item
    2. another sub item
2. another item
3. and also this item

Renders to:

1. one item
   1. a sub item
   2. another sub item
2. another item
3. and also this item

Or you can mix it:

You can create a numbered list just by numbering the items:

1. one item
    * a sub item
    * another sub item
2. another item
3. and also this item

Renders to:

1. one item
   • a sub item
   • another sub item
2. another item
3. and also this item

Including code

To show some text in fixed size font, for example code, you can place it between tick marks:

Running text with a one word `code` in it.

Renders to:

Running text with a one word code in it.

Longer pieces of code you can insert like this:

```
This is all code
and more lines.
and some more.

```

Rendering to:

This is all code
and more lines.
and some more.

Or use tabs or whitespace in front

    This is all code
    and more lines.
    and some more.

Rendering to:

This is all code
and more lines.
and some more.

Linking to other pages

You can create a link to another page by creating a clickable text between [ and ] and then add the URL to the page in brackets. For example to link to the forum, you would do:

Please submit your questions to the [forum](https://forum.sensestage.eu)

Which renders to:

Please submit your questions to the forum

If you want to reference another documentation page, you should just use the filename of the documentation page. For example:

[How to contribute to documentation](contributing-to-the-documentation)

Renders to:

How to contribute to documentation

If you want to use the URL as the linkable text you can use this syntax:

[https://forum.sensestage.eu]()

Renders to:

https://forum.sensestage.eu

Anchors

You can create anchors within a page, if you want to link to a particular part of the page. For example if you want an overview of the page on top, with links to the different sections of the page. The anchors need to be in a header or subheader.

## Creating an anchor {#myanchor}

Renders to an invisible anchor:

Creating an anchor

But we can now link to it like this:

Go back to the [anchor example](#myanchor)

Which we’ve rendered at the bottom of the page so you can go back to the anchor by clicking on the link down there.

To go to an anchor on a different page you link to first the page name and then the anchor. For example:

[Unpacking the Sense/Stage MiniBee Kit](getting-started-with-sense-stage#step0)

Unpacking the Sense/Stage MiniBee Kit

Including images

If you want to include an image, you have to put the image in the img folder. Then you format the link to the image like this:

![](/img/MiniBee_revD_XBee_header.jpg)

To insert the image like this:

Creating section headers

A # in front of a line will make it into a header:

# This is a header

Renders to:

This is a header

Adding more #’s makes subheaders:

## This is a subheader
### This is a sub-sub-header

This is a subheader

This is a sub-sub-header

Other formatting tricks

• To insert a horizontal line:

-----

Rendering this horizontal line:

• To create a special note:

> important note

important note

More about the markdown syntax

For a full rundown of the syntax that can be used, please take a look at the kramdown syntax page.

Meta-data at the top of the page

At the top of a documentation page there should be some meta-data, which provides information for the rendering of the page, including the title, a summary of what the page is about, creation date, categories and related pages.

---
title: title of page
summary: a short description of what this documentation page is about
layout: documentation
type: [tutorial | guide | reference | overview]
creation-date: 2017-02-06
category: [ introduction | hardware | firmware | software | meta ]
subcategory: [minibee | expansion ]
related:
  - anotherTitle
  - yetAnotherTitle
---

• title - this should be the title of the page
• summary - a summary of what the page is about. This will be presented in the overview pages of the documentation.
• layout - this should be documentation.
• type - this is the kind of page it is; so if you are writing a tutorial on how to use sensor data in Max, it should be tutorial. If it is a reference about what features the new expansion board has, it is a reference.
• creation-date - the date of when you are creating the file, so today.
• category - one of introduction, hardware, firmware, software, meta (for anything else)
• subcategory - the particular topic within the category, for example minibee, installation, community.
• related - other documentation pages that are related to the same topic and readers may also want to look up.

Below this meta-data (which is between two lines with ---) you can write the actual content of the page.

The bottom of the page

Go back to the anchor example

Related pages:

• Contributing to the documentation