An h1 header ============ Paragraphs are separated by a blank line. 2nd paragraph. *Italic*, **bold**, and `monospace`. Itemized lists look like: * this one * that one * the other one Note that --- not considering the asterisk --- the actual text content starts at 4-columns in. > Block quotes are > written like so. > > They can span multiple paragraphs, > if you like. Use 3 dashes for an em-dash. Use 2 dashes for ranges (ex., "it's all in chapters 12--14"). Three dots ... will be converted to an ellipsis. Unicode is supported. ☺ An h2 header ------------ Here's a numbered list: 1. first item 2. second item 3. third item Note again how the actual text starts at 4 columns in (4 characters from the left side). Here's a code sample: # Let me re-iterate ... for i in 1 .. 10 { do-something(i) } As you probably guessed, indented 4 spaces. By the way, instead of indenting the block, you can use delimited blocks, if you like: ~~~ define foobar() { print "Welcome to flavor country!"; } ~~~ (which makes copying & pasting easier). You can optionally mark the delimited block for Pandoc to syntax highlight it: ~~~python import time # Quick, count to ten! for i in range(10): # (but not *too* quick) time.sleep(0.5) print i ~~~