Hedron Markdown

Optional Content Warning

As of 2024.07, you no longer need to use Markdown! You can just directly type and use the styling buttons to add bold, links, and more.

All you need to know is that, if, while you're writing, you want to tag something like another page, just type "@" to pull up the suggestions dialog, which searches all pages for the page you want to tag:

From that suggestions dialog, simply select the page you want and you'll get a nice link, just like so:

However, in some cases, you may want to do something that isn't exactly supported with the fancy editor. So read on in those cases!

Markdown

As you've been using Hedron, you've likely encountered stylized content with headers, links, horizontal dividers, and other things — like this spell:

To create your own content like this, Hedron supports "Markdown" in all text-editor boxes across the site. And in this guide, we go over how to use Markdown to create your own stylized content!

What is Markdown?

Markdown is just a way for you to describe how to style your written text. You may recognize it from other forums across the internet such as Reddit and Gmail.

It's not technically coding, but it can certainly seem scary at first!

But really, it's just about some basic rules that you may already be used to. All this guide is is a reference of how to do it, as well as some Hedron-specific functionalities we have.

Markdown Basics

Headers

To create headers of various levels, use "#".

For example, these:

Text Formatting

To create bold text, surround it with 2 asterisks (*). For italics, use 1 asterisk.

To strikethrough text, surround it with 2 tilde (~).

For example:

Links

To create a link, surround the text you want to link with square brackets ("[" and "]") and the place the link should go in parantheses.

For example:

Lists

To create lists with bullet points, use a space and a dash for each line in the list.

To create numbered lists, use a space, period, and "1" for each line in the list. No need to number each item specifically!

Tables & Charts

To create a table or chart, you specify the table using dashes and vertical bars.

Specifically, each line represents a row in your table, with a specific row representing the border between header and non-header rows.

For example, you could type:

| Header 1 | Header 2 |
| -- | -- |
| Content 1 | Content 2 |
| Content 3 | Content 4 |

And it would become:

Horizontal Dividers

To create horizontal dividers, simply use 3 dashes on their own line.

For example, "---" would become:

Hedron Specific Tricks

To make things even easier, Hedron also has a few specific tips and tricks.

Link Suggestions

By typing the "@" sign, you will open up a search box to link to other places in Hedron.

By typing in this box, you will start a search for content you can access on Hedron. When you see the page you'd like, simply click on it to insert a link!

Stat References

In the Ruleset Editor boxes for Overviews and Previews, you can also type "{" to pull up a suggestion box for different kinds of computed values:

But unlike links, when you select a value here, you will see your value in squiggly braces:

Overall, that's the basics of Markdown formatting on Hedron!

In the future, we will try to make it so you don't need any of this information, but for now, Markdown is the main way you can stylize your pages. (EDIT: We already have!)