From the other thread:
To allow users to use the Markdown Tutorial in an intuitive manner, this thread is being unlocked. Feel free to post here for that purpose. This thread will be routinely cleaned in the future. Please take questions to the Help thread, thank you.
This isn't a question as such, but I had some comments that I never got around to posting for some reason, until that post (un?)fortunately reminded me.
It says
You can just quote this post to see how it's made.
and again, at the bottom,
Repeating what I've already said, just click on quote to see how this post was made.
But actually, that's not possible while the thread is locked (as you may have noticed?). This isn't a complete disaster, since the original formatting tutorial can still be quoted, but it's a bit messy to have to go to another thread to get the same information, and it may not occur to people (especially newer users) that they can do that. If you don't want to unlock the thread permanently, then perhaps you could consider adding examples of what the markup actually looks like, as per anonymous's Cheat Sheet?
Anyway, while you're pondering that, there are a few things that could be clarified or added. First of all, it took me ages to figure out how to get this part to work:
Quotes may also be divided
By adding - between them
It kept coming out looking like this:
Quotes may also be divided
By adding - between them
...until I eventually figured out that there has to be a blank line before the minus sign. Note that this specific example is not in the original formatting tutorial, as it currently stands, so there is no quotable version if the new thread is locked.
A few omissions:
Strikethrough and bold italic are not mentioned.
There are alternative ways of doing Heading 1 and 2 by following them with = and - respectively, though it's probably not necessary to know that, considering that no one ever uses them in the first place...
Also, headings go up to level 6, not that 5 and 6 are much use for anything.
###And as I was previewing this I realised that it doesn't say that the # signs introducing header text need to be followed by a space, otherwise it comes out like this. I know there's a note saying that spaces are important, but it doesn't say much about where they should (or shouldn't) be included.
And finally, I discovered that you can add alt text for hyperlinks and images:
...an incredibly useful feature that it would be positively criminal to omit.