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I've always thought that the tildes look way better for fencing than the backticks, especially when viewed with lines/paragraphs around them: ~~~~~~ this ~~~ line won line too line tree...

Argh. Hang on. Github's markdown doesn't support subscript and superscript, and won't pass through the highlighting.

Github's md won't render the `mark` tag, and doesn't appear to allow a span with inline css either.

@jgm , if you don't like the format of this cheatsheet, or the humor in the draft here, or if you'd rather write your own (possibly at a later date),...

Do you mean supporting a feature where you can write something like, "see figure 4", and that will render as a link to an image (as in `![figure 4](figure-4.png)`?

Would the current way to get something similar to this be to add the figure as an image, like this: ~~~ ![figure 4](figure-4.png){#fig-4} ~~~ and then link to it with...

Ok, I understand. Thanks. I wonder if there's a way to re-use the div syntax for this, like ~~~ ::: figure foo ... ::: ~~~ Similar to the list tables...

Actually, if I were "delimiter-shopping" for a punctuation character to use for figures, it would be hard to beat `&` --- I mean, it looks just like a figure that...

Yeah, I see that, though I don't think the `!!!` looks good.

Is the purpose of the metadata block to set variables in the standalone output doc template? (I'm thinking here of my rough understanding of how Pandoc works.) My understanding is...