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hevok @hevok November 23, 2012
Tutorial reST #emphasis #rest

Inline Markup & Special Characters

Arterisk * is a special character to define bold and italic.

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italic italic

bold bold

Backqoute ` is another special character. For example, it can be used to create internal or external links.

Double backquote `` enters the verbatim mode

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** **

There are some restriction for * and ``:

  • cannot be nested

  • content can not start or end with white-space

  • must be separated from surrounding text by white-space character.

Slash () can be used to work around the second restriction: "B\ old" results in Bold.

A backslash itself can be shown by escaping it with itself: \ -> \