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Style Guide

Definitions

Headings use sentence case, it’s a touch more casual and less commanding

MPL — Modern Parking Lot

  • Uses CommonMark
  • Bold for the abbreviation, which is used in common speech
  • Expansion goes next to it with a hyphen train
  • Items go underneath as bullets
  • Sort of resembles a parking lot
  • Never has periods on the end
  • Sentence case
  • No periods on the end

A - Single hyphen, Nope

Two – hyphens, Nope

Hyphen Train — Uses three hyphens. Good. Don’t bold the definition

This is a modern definition
It uses the colon in front, but there is no easy way to do line breaks. It’s weird about where it puts the first indent. It’s also like, very tightly spaced?

I guess this would be good for prose? Nope, doesn’t respect indents.

Does it support bullets — or modern parking lot?
  • Just bolds the whole thing
  • There’s a line space above the top bullet
  • Items like to be off by themselves

Admonish

Note

General information or additional context.

Tip

A helpful suggestion or best practice.

Important

Key information that shouldn’t be missed.

Warning

Critical information that highlights a potential risk.

Caution

Information about potential issues that require caution.

SUMMARY.md


<-- Section should be a large inclusive word, because it will show up in the URIs -->

# Routing

                                                     <-- All files go into same same section folder -->
                                                     
- [OSPFv2](./ospf/ospfv2.md)                       <-- Root -->
  - [DR Election](./ospf/ospfv2-dr-election.md)    <-- Sidebar_Branch_Title is short, branch_name_is_qualified -->
      - [DR LSAs](./ospf/ospfv2-dr-lsas.md)        <-- Sidebar_Leaf_Title is short, leaf_file_name_is_qualified -->

Footnote

This is a footnote1.

Duck Duck Go

Theme break


A code block

never use this
it can't be found
because its not fenced

A good numbered list

1. It needs to be bolded on the top

  • It looks good
  • Bold catches the eyes

2. Keep Numbering

  • Everything will work out fine

A bad numbered list

  1. This doesn’t work.
  • Nope
  • Not at all
  1. Seems like it should
  • But it doesn’t

Reference

Markdown - mdBook Documentation

CommonMark Spec

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