Markdown

All text is plain text, meaning the only formatting that matters is what you see written out. That requires new ways to integrate formatting. Here are the basics:

(*) Note: Manually adding the caret symbol is optional, because it is also done automatically. 

For footnotes:

Sample sentence^[A little note here.] that continues after the footnote.

Note: you can include a line break in a footnote using \\

Also, no need to include a number with the footnote.

Note: “Smart quotes” do not need to be straight quotes " and likewise em-dashes don’t need to be 3 dashes. Those issues will be handled automatically, if need be.

Paragraphs:

To differentiate two paragraphs, you need to leave an empty line in between. Simply making a new line will not suffice. This also means that you can have as many line breaks as you want inside markdown without breaking the paragraph.

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Lists:

Insert an unordered list like so:

- This is

- an unordered list

- of things.

It will become this in the export:

• This is
• an unordered list
• of things.

If you wish to have specific labels instead of bullet points, write the list like so:

- ?[label](First:) This is

- ?[label](Second:) an unordered list

- ?[label](Third:) of things.

To export:

Note: Remember to leave blank lines to separate paragraphs.

Images:

Images that are the size of an A4 paper can be added with:

{alt text}

Images with a different shape are added with:

{alt text}

The cover image is denoted in the Master with:


The very first manga panel (not the second one, if there are two) should be inserted like so:

{alt text}

Note: the {alt text} is optional.

Breaks:

Since empty lines just serve to split paragraphs, to get an actual separation you use:

![break]

For soft scene breaks:

![soft scene break]

For hard scene breaks:

![hard scene break]

Chapter headers:

A new chapter begins with a single line that follows the format:

# Chapter X: chapter title

Where chapter X can be “Chapter 1”, “Prologue”, etc. separated by a colon from the chapter title (The exception being the Afterword, which has no chapter title).

The chapter title may also contain the pipe character | to indicate a line break in the chapter title card. These are generated only upon export.

Advanced Markdown: Master file

The Master file is what links all other chapters together and contains a bit more special markdown that you won’t find elsewhere:

Note: A tag beginning with ! describes an action, whereas a tag beginning with ? describes some extra data that needs to be included.

File names need to match the reference in the Master, however, they may have an extra “(x) ” (where x is some number) preceding the file name to help organize them inside the drive folder.