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Header 2

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When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Header 3

// Javascript code with syntax highlighting.
var fun = function lang(l) {
  dateformat.i18n = require('./lang/' + l)
  return true;
}

# Ruby code with syntax highlighting
GitHubPages::Dependencies.gems.each do |gem, version|
  s.add_dependency(gem, "= #{version}")
end

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This is an unordered list following a header.
This is an unordered list following a header.
This is an unordered list following a header.

Header 5

This is an ordered list following a header.
This is an ordered list following a header.
This is an ordered list following a header.

Header 6

This is a very long link which wraps and therefore doesn’t overflow even when it comes at the beginning of the line.

This is a very long link which wraps and therefore doesn’t overflow the line when used first in an item in a list.

head1	head two	three
ok	good swedish fish	nice
out of stock	good and plenty	nice
ok	good `oreos`	hmm
ok	good `zoute` drop	yumm

There’s a horizontal rule below this.

Here is an unordered list:

Item foo
Item bar
Item baz
Item zip

And an ordered list:

Item one
Item two
Item three
Item four

And an ordered list, continued:

Item one
Item two

Some text

Item three
Item four

And an ordered list starting from 42:

Item 42
Item 43
Item 44

And a nested list:

level 1 item
- level 2 item
- level 2 item
  - level 3 item
  - level 3 item
level 1 item
- level 2 item
- level 2 item
- level 2 item
level 1 item
- level 2 item
- level 2 item
level 1 item

Nesting an ol in ul in an ol

level 1 item (ul)
1. level 2 item (ol)
2. level 2 item (ol)
  - level 3 item (ul)
  - level 3 item (ul)
level 1 item (ul)
1. level 2 item (ol)
2. level 2 item (ol)
  - level 3 item (ul)
  - level 3 item (ul)
3. level 4 item (ol)
4. level 4 item (ol)
  - level 3 item (ul)
  - level 3 item (ul)
level 1 item (ul)

And a task list

Hello, this is a TODO item
Hello, this is another TODO item
Goodbye, this item is done

Nesting task lists

Nesting a ul in a task list

level 1 item (task)
- level 2 item (ul)
- level 2 item (ul)
level 1 item (task)
level 1 item (task)

Nesting a task list in a ul

level 1 item (ul)
- level 2 item (task)
- level 2 item (task)
level 1 item (ul)
level 1 item (ul)

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Large image

“Wroclaw University Library digitizing rare archival texts” by j_cadmus is marked with CC BY 2.0.

Labels

I’m a label

blue

green

purple

yellow

red

bold

italic

bold + italic

Definition lists can be used with HTML syntax.

Name: Godzilla
Born: 1952
Birthplace: Japan
Color: Green

Multiple description terms and values

Term: Brief description of Term
Longer Term: Longer description of Term, possibly more than one line
Term: First description of Term, possibly more than one line; Second description of Term, possibly more than one line
Term1
Term2: Single description of Term1 and Term2, possibly more than one line
Term1
Term2: First description of Term1 and Term2, possibly more than one line; Second description of Term1 and Term2, possibly more than one line

More code

def dump_args(func):
    "This decorator dumps out the arguments passed to a function before calling it"
    argnames = func.func_code.co_varnames[:func.func_code.co_argcount]
    fname = func.func_name
    def echo_func(*args,**kwargs):
        print fname, ":", ', '.join(
            '%s=%r' % entry
            for entry in zip(argnames,args) + kwargs.items())
        return func(*args, **kwargs)
    return echo_func

@dump_args
def f1(a,b,c):
    print a + b + c

f1(1, 2, 3)

def precondition(precondition, use_conditions=DEFAULT_ON):
    return conditions(precondition, None, use_conditions)

def postcondition(postcondition, use_conditions=DEFAULT_ON):
    return conditions(None, postcondition, use_conditions)

class conditions(object):
    __slots__ = ('__precondition', '__postcondition')

    def __init__(self, pre, post, use_conditions=DEFAULT_ON):
        if not use_conditions:
            pre, post = None, None

        self.__precondition  = pre
        self.__postcondition = post

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Collapsed Section

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Shopping list (click me!)

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Apples
Oranges
Milk