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Add notes about CKAN's description support for Markdown
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* [https://github.com/WPRDC/data-guide/blob/master/docs/data_dictionaries.md How to create data dictionaries] ==> [[Data Dictionaries]] | * [https://github.com/WPRDC/data-guide/blob/master/docs/data_dictionaries.md How to create data dictionaries] ==> [[Data Dictionaries]] | ||
* [https://github.com/WPRDC/data-guide/blob/master/docs/metadata_extras.md Some of our standard extra metadata fields] | * [https://github.com/WPRDC/data-guide/blob/master/docs/metadata_extras.md Some of our standard extra metadata fields] | ||
== Writing dataset descriptions == | |||
The description field supports some limited markup, which appears to be a subset of Markdown. | |||
* Starting a line with a single pound sign (#) indicates that the line should be in bigger, title text, but two pound signs (##) do not give a different font size, as they do in standard Markdown. | |||
* Dashes can be used to denote elements in an unordered list (though I haven't been able to get nested lists to work). | |||
* Use backticks to indicate that a sans serif font should be use to represent code, like `this`. | |||
Images, links, bold and italic text all work. | |||
It seems like it's limited to the original [https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/#basic-syntax](very basic specification of Markdown). | |||
== Changes that can be made through the backend == | == Changes that can be made through the backend == | ||