Is it possible to change font type in Markdown?

Sun Mar 22 17:30:32 EDT 2015

Thanks!

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Tom Humiston <tom at jumpingrock.net> wrote:

> Markdown doesn't contain font information. So at the level of Markdown
> there's nothing to change.
>
> Markdown contains structural information. For instance, a paragraph is a
> paragraph no matter what font your present it with. Things like colors,
> margins, backgrounds, and fonts are presentational, not structural.
>
> Once your Markdown document has been rendered as HTML, then fonts can be
> applied. To specify a font for all or part of an HTML document, use CSS.
> Here's an example of a brief HTML document with embedded 'style' element
> (style elements use CSS syntax):
>
>
>     <!DOCTYPE html>
>     <head lang="en">
>     <title>Sample document</title>
>     <meta charset="utf-8">
>     <style>
>     body {
>       margin: 2em auto;
>       width: 90%;
>       max-width: 30em;
>       font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
>       }
>     p {
>       color: red;
>       font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;
>       }
>     </style>
>     </head>
>     <body>
>
>     <h1>Sample Pages for Fun and Profit</h1>
>     <p>This paragraph is red and in a different
>     font! Woo-hoo!
>
>     </body>
>     </html>
>
>
> The entire Markdown document for creating the above would contain only the
> following:
>
>
>     # Sample Pages for Fun and Profit
>
>     This paragraph is red and in a different
>     font! Woo-hoo!
>
>
> So, as shown above, font info just ain't there in a Markdown doc. The
> additional info to create a complete HTML document comes from outside the
> Markdown doc itself.
>
> To set up individual elements for special styling, you can specify ID or
> class names if you're using a Markdown variant that supports it, and then
> supply rules for those elements in the CSS.
>
> I'm guessing that for your purposes, the most productive next step is to
> search for "css tutorial".
>
> HTH,
> - Tom
>
>
>
> On Mar 22, 2015, at 12:59 PM, Alan Goldsmith <alangoldsmith at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > If so, what's the tag?  Apologies if you've already discussed this.
>
>
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