Cheat sheet

Markdown, and what mori makes of it.

Left column: the source, exactly as you would type it. Right column: that source put through mori's engine — the same render_document the editor and the app call. Nothing here is a screenshot or hand-written example HTML, so the page cannot drift away from the product. If a line renders as plain text, mori does not support it yet.

Basic syntax

The original set, understood everywhere Markdown is read.

Markdown

Result · drawn by the engine

Headings

Levels

# Title
## Section
### Subsection

Underlined form

Title
=====

Section
-------

Emphasis

Bold, italic, both

**bold** and *italic*, or ***both***.

Inline code

Run `cargo test --workspace` first.

Escaping a marker

\*not italic\* but a literal pair.

Hard line break · two trailing spaces

First line
Second line, same paragraph.

Lists

Bulleted, with nesting

- Open a file
- Write
  - Two spaces to nest
  - And again

Numbered

1. First
2. Second
   1. Second, part one

Links & images

Inline link, with an optional title

[mori](https://motemd.com)
[mori](https://motemd.com "Nothing but writing")

Angle-bracket autolink

<https://motemd.com>

Reference link

Written in [mori][home].

[home]: https://motemd.com

Image · a bang, then a link

![The mori mark](mori-icon-256.png)

Blocks

Blockquote, nested

> The file is the document.
>
> > And the document is the file.

Fenced code, with a language

```rust
fn main() {
    println!("hello");
}
```

Thematic break

Before.

---

After.

Extended (GFM)

GitHub-flavoured additions. Safe to use anywhere a file might end up on GitHub, GitLab, or in most modern editors.

Tables

Pipes and a divider row

| Name  | Role     |
| ----- | -------- |
| Jihye | Design   |
| Harin | Research |

Alignment · colons in the divider

| Left | Centre | Right |
| :--- | :----: | ----: |
| a    | b      |  3.50 |

Typing these by hand gets old fast. The table generator writes and aligns them for you.

Task lists

Brackets after the bullet

- [x] Ship 1.0 for Linux
- [ ] Finish the macOS build
- [ ] Finish the Windows build

Inline extras

Strikethrough

~~Tabs in 1.0~~ moved to a later release.

Bare URL, linked on sight

Downloads live at https://motemd.com/download

Footnotes

A marker, and the note anywhere below

Cold start is measured on every release.[^bench]

[^bench]: The method is on the benchmarks page.

What mori adds

Beyond GFM. These stay plain text in readers that do not know them, so a file using them is still a file anyone can open.

Math

Inline · single dollars

Frame budget follows $t = 1/f$ exactly.

Display · double dollars

$$
\sum_{i=1}^{n} \frac{1}{i^2}
$$

Highlight

The part that matters is ==zero idle frames==.

Try any of it in the web editor — same engine, nothing to install.

Convert a document to HTML — the markup, ready to paste.

Build a table without counting pipes — columns, alignment, CSV paste.

Or download mori — for the files already on your disk.