Sample document

This document demonstrate reStructuredText syntax. Professional books and tech documentation are plain text files written with this easy markup language.

Tip

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Inline elements

Paragraphs may contain emphasised, strong emphasised words. Links to external webs like https://documatt.com/blog/ are auto-recognized. Sometimes you need monospaced text. Useful are also ^superscript or _subscript.

Images

Lists

Unordered lists usually use * as bullet symbol:

• A bullet list item

• Second item

• A sub item

Ordered (enumerated) lists that is auto-numbered starts with #.:

1. one

2. two

3. three

Showing code examples

It’s easy to show code parts with inline literal, or literal block:

some literal text

Or, literal block with syntax highlighting:

for (let i = 0; i < 3; i++) {        // shows 0, then 1, then 2
    alert(i);
}