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Spans

Applying some sort of modification to a span of text on a website would typically require a bit of HTML, specifically a <span> tag with a class or id attribute so it could be targeted with CSS. Homebrewery simplifies this with a special extended Markdown syntax that utilizes “curly” or “mustache” braces for both spans Spans

Links

In your homebrew document you may want to add some links, either to external sites like your own website or to another brew, or some internal links to specific pages or headings so your audience can navigate via a Table of Contents. Adding links can be done with Markdown, saving a lot of effort over Links

Italic

Italicizing text in the Homebrewery is very easy via Markdown syntax, and works in much the same as “bolding” text, with the same caveat that there is a difference between “italicizing” and “emphasizing” text. Where “bold” is to “strong”, “italic” is to “emphasis”. But first, the markup: Markup Using Markdown in the Brew Editor, you Italic

Bold

To add visual weight to a portion of text, you can set the text to be marked as “bold” in the markup. Traditionally, this increases the font weight so it stands out from the surrounding text. This doesn’t always have to be the case, as shown later. Markup Setting text to bold in a Homebrewery Bold

Headings

Markup You can add headings to your homebrew document using the # symbol in the Brew Editor: When you are writing at length, you’ll likely want to have different levels of headings to give your brew some hierarchical structure– first you’ll have a top-level header (or “Header 1”), and then nested under that several more Headings