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Structural markup elements

Document title

#+TITLE: This is the title of the document
The title of the exported document

Headings and sections

#+OPTIONS: H:4
How many levels will be used as headings

Table of contents

#+OPTIONS: toc:2
Only to two levels in TOC
#+OPTIONS: toc:nil
No TOC at all

Text before the first headline

deprecated.defines a menu list

Paragraphs

#+BEGIN_CENTER
Centered text
#+BEGIN_QUOTE
Paragraph that is indented on both the left and the right margin
#+BEGIN_VERSE
Keep the line breaks in a region

Formatting

Format

_underlined_
Underlined
*bold*
Bold
/italic/
Italic
+strike-through+
Strike-through
=code=
Code
~verbatim~
Verbatim

Horizontal rules

-----
At least 5 dashes

Lists

Unordered list

- Bullet
Unordered list
* Bullet
Unordered list
+ Bullet
Unordered list

Ordered list

1. Bullet
Ordered list
2. Bullet
Ordered list
3) Bullet
Ordered list

Description list

+ Term :: Long description text
Description list

Headline

Headline

* Top level headline
Top level headline
** Second level
Second level
*** 3rd level
3rd level