GitHub Markdown – Special Characters in Code Blocks

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Markdown automatically escapes ampersands and angle brackets within a code block, so how is it possible to use special characters that require escaping for example: λ ?

I know that one solution is to edit the HTML output file, however my markdown is for a GitHub page and I don't have access to the generated file.

I use ReText and it allows me to insert a lambda directly in the editor and the preview shows it as well. GitHub's view only shows a small "image missing" type of box.

Best Answer

Use HTML entities style to insert special characters. For example writing

&#955;

will produce a λ

See this Wikipedia page for the complete reference.

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Use ~~double tildes around the words~~.

GitHub – Markdown to Insert and Display an Image

You may be missing the full path/location to the image you want to include in your Markdown file.

The example given is a relative path, where the image rests on the same server as the file. In the help, it would assume the image is actually located at:

https://github.com/images/logo.png

But that is not a valid file or location.

In order to make sure you can render an image no matter where you're viewing it from, it's safer to include the full URL, which would include the domain name.

So your example would instead be using something similar to this:

![Bilby Stampede](http://example.com/images/logo.png)

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