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- Is there a way to download the Readme file of a GitHub project as a PDF, with the same formatting as the readme?
- May 16, 2019 GitHub, A very common name on the world of developers, is the largest community of developers to share, discover and build better software. From reading awesome documentation to web-based hosting.
- You cannot color plain text in a GitHub README.md file. You can however add color to code samples with the tags below. To do this just add tags such as these samples to your README.md file: ```json // code for coloring ``` ```html // code for coloring ``` ```js // code for coloring ``` ```css // code for coloring ``` // etc.
- You can tell GitHub to ignore (or escape) Markdown formatting by using before the Markdown character. Let's rename.our-new-project. to.our-old-project. For more information, see Daring Fireball's 'Markdown Syntax.' Further reading. GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec 'About writing and formatting on GitHub' 'Working with advanced formatting'.
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GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Share samples of code with fenced code blocks and enabling syntax highlighting.
In this article
Fenced code blocks
You can create fenced code blocks by placing triple backticks ``` before and after the code block. We recommend placing a blank line before and after code blocks to make the raw formatting easier to read.
Tip: To preserve your formatting within a list, make sure to indent non-fenced code blocks by eight spaces.
Syntax highlighting
Formatting Github Readme File
You can add an optional language identifier to enable syntax highlighting in your fenced code block.
For example, to syntax highlight Ruby code:
We use Linguist to perform language detection and to select third-party grammars for syntax highlighting. You can find out which keywords are valid in the languages YAML file.
Formatting Github Readme Free
Further reading
Github Readme Formatting Options
- 'Basic writing and formatting syntax'