Markdown/MyST cheat sheet

This file contains the syntax for commonly used Markdown and MyST markup. Open it in your text editor to quickly copy and paste the markup you need.

See the MyST style guide for detailed information and conventions.

Also see the MyST documentation for detailed information on MyST, and the Canonical Documentation Style Guide for general style conventions.

H2 heading

H3 heading

H4 heading

H5 heading

Inline formatting

• UI element

• code

• command

• Key

• Italic

• Bold

Code blocks

Start a code block:

code:
  - example: true

# Demonstrate a code block
code:
  - example: true

# Demonstrate a code block
code:
  - example: true

Links

• Canonical website

• Links

• Link text

• LXD

• Link text

Navigation

Use the following syntax::

```{toctree}
:hidden:

sub-page1
sub-page2
```

Lists

1. Step 1

   • Item 1

     • Sub-item

   • Item 2

     1. Sub-step 1

     2. Sub-step 2

2. Step 2

   1. Sub-step 1

      • Item

   2. Sub-step 2

Term 1

Definition

Term 2

Definition

Tables

Markdown tables

Header 1	Header 2
Cell 1 Second paragraph	Cell 2
Cell 3	Cell 4

Centered:

Header 1	Header 2
Cell 1 Second paragraph	Cell 2
Cell 3	Cell 4

List tables

Header 1	Header 2
Cell 1 Second paragraph	Cell 2
Cell 3	Cell 4

Centered:

Header 1	Header 2
Cell 1 Second paragraph	Cell 2
Cell 3	Cell 4

Notes

Note

A note.

Tip

A tip.

Important

Important information

Caution

This might damage your hardware!

Images

Figure caption

Reuse

Keys

Keys can be defined at the top of a file, or in a myst_substitutions option in conf.py.

This is included text.

This is a substitution that includes a code block: code block

File inclusion

LXD is free software and released under [AGPL-3.0-only](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html) (it may contain some contributions that are licensed under the Apache-2.0 license, see [License and copyright](contributing)).
It’s an open source project that warmly welcomes community projects, contributions, suggestions, fixes and constructive feedback.

Tabs

Tab 1Tab 2

Content Tab 1

Glossary

some term

Definition of the example term.

some term

More useful markup

• Added in version X.Y.

• API

---

Custom extensions

Related links at the top of the page (surrounded by ---):

relatedlinks: https://github.com/canonical/lxd-sphinx-extensions, [RTFM](https://www.google.com)
discourse: 12345

Terms that should not be checked by the spelling checker: PurposelyWrong

A single-line terminal view that separates input from output:

root@vampyr:/home/user/directory/# command

the output

A multi-line version of the same:

root@vampyr:/home/user/directory/# command 1

output 1

root@vampyr:/home/user/directory/# command 2

output 2

A link to a YouTube video:

▶ Watch on YouTube