Writing content with Markdown, LaTeX, and Shortcodes

Content can be written using Markdown, LaTeX math, and Hugo Shortcodes. Additionally, HTML may be used for advanced formatting. This article gives an overview of the most common formatting options.

Sub-headings

## Heading 2
### Heading 3
#### Heading 4
##### Heading 5
###### Heading 6

Emphasis

Italics with *asterisks* or _underscores_.

Bold with **asterisks** or __underscores__.

Combined emphasis with **asterisks and _underscores_**.

Strikethrough with ~~two tildes~~.

Ordered lists

1. First item
2. Another item

Unordered lists

* First item
* Another item

Images

Images may be added to a page by placing them in your static/img/ folder and referencing them using one of the following two notations:

A general image:

![alternative text for search engines](/img/screenshot.png)

A numbered figure with caption:

{{< figure src="/img/screenshot.png" title="Figure Caption" >}}

Links

[I'm a link](https://www.google.com)
[A post]({{< ref "post/hi.md" >}})
[A publication]({{< ref "publication/hi.md" >}})
[A project]({{< ref "project/hi.md" >}})
[Another section]({{< relref "hi.md#who" >}})

Emojis

See the Emoji cheat sheet for available emoticons. The following serves as an example, but you should remove the spaces between each emoji name and pair of semicolons:

I : heart : Academic : smile :

I ❤️ Academic 😄

Blockquote

> This is a blockquote.

This is a blockquote.

Footnotes

I have more [^1] to say.

[^1]: Footnote example.

I have more ¹ to say.

Code highlighting

Pass the language of the code, such as python, as a parameter after three backticks:

```python
# Example of code highlighting
input_string_var = input("Enter some data: ")
print("You entered: {}".format(input_string_var))
```

Result:

# Example of code highlighting
input_string_var = input("Enter some data: ")
print("You entered: {}".format(input_string_var))

Twitter tweet

To include a single tweet, pass the tweet’s ID from the tweet’s URL as parameter to the shortcode:

{{< tweet 666616452582129664 >}}

Youtube

{{< youtube w7Ft2ymGmfc >}}

Vimeo

{{< vimeo 146022717 >}}

GitHub gist

{{< gist USERNAME GIST-ID  >}}

Speaker Deck

{{< speakerdeck 4e8126e72d853c0060001f97 >}}

$\rm \LaTeX$ math

$$\left [ – \frac{\hbar^2}{2 m} \frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2} + V \right ] \Psi = i \hbar \frac{\partial}{\partial t} \Psi$$

$$\left [ – \frac{\hbar^2}{2 m} \frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2} + V \right ] \Psi = i \hbar \frac{\partial}{\partial t} \Psi$$

Alternatively, inline math can be written by wrapping the formula with only a single $:

This is inline: $\mathbf{y} = \mathbf{X}\boldsymbol\beta + \boldsymbol\varepsilon$

This is inline: $\mathbf{y} = \mathbf{X}\boldsymbol\beta + \boldsymbol\varepsilon$

Table

Code:

| Command           | Description                    |
| ------------------| ------------------------------ |
| `hugo`            | Build your website.            |
| `hugo serve -w`   | View your website.             |

Result:

Command	Description
hugo	Build your website.
hugo serve -w	View your website.

Alerts

Alerts are a useful feature that add side content such as tips, notes, or warnings to your articles. They are especially handy when writing educational tutorial-style articles. Use the corresponding shortcodes to enable alerts inside your content:

{{% alert note %}}
Here's a tip or note...
{{% /alert %}}

This will display the following note block:

{{% alert warning %}}
Here's some important information...
{{% /alert %}}

This will display the following warning block: