Writing with awkward
A tour of the markdown
Published
Pages are markdown with a few additions for Tufte CSS. This page uses all of them.
Inline formatting
Text can have emphasis, strong emphasis and inline code. Links point to other pages by name, or anywhere else. Sidenotes are numberedLike this one. and margin notes are not.A margin note has no number.
Blocks
Lists
- Unordered lists use a hyphen.
- Items may continue on the next line, indented by two spaces, and are joined into a single item, so a long item can be written across several lines of markdown and still wraps as one.
The second item above is written as:
- Items may continue on the next line, indented by two spaces, and are joined
into a single item, so a long item can be written across several lines of
markdown and still wraps as one.
- Ordered lists use numbers.
- One level only.
Quotes and code
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
awk '{ print $1 }' file
Tables
| Script | Generates |
|---|---|
| meta.awk | the head tag |
| header.awk | the site header |
| content.awk | this article |
| footer.awk | the site footer |
Figures
find content static -type f | sort | awk -f src/lib.awk -f src/index.awk -v today=2026-10-06 > work/page-index