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title: "Editing Tutorial - Markdown"
teaching: 10
exercises: 2
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- How do you write a lesson using Markdown and `{sandpaper}`?

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- Explain how to use markdown with The Carpentries Workbench
- Demonstrate how to include pieces of code, figures, and nested challenge blocks

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## Introduction

This is a lesson created via The Carpentries Workbench. It is written in
[Pandoc-flavored Markdown](https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.txt) for static files and
[R Markdown][r-markdown] for dynamic files that can render code into output.
Please refer to the [Introduction to The Carpentries
Workbench](https://carpentries.github.io/sandpaper-docs/) for full documentation.

What you need to know is that there are three sections required for a valid
Carpentries lesson:

1. `questions` are displayed at the beginning of the episode to prime the
learner for the content.
2. `objectives` are the learning objectives for an episode displayed with
the questions.
3. `keypoints` are displayed at the end of the episode to reinforce the
objectives.

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Inline instructor notes can help inform instructors of timing challenges
associated with the lessons. They appear in the "Instructor View"

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## Challenge 1: Can you do it?

What is the output of this command?

```r
paste("This", "new", "lesson", "looks", "good")
```

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## Output

```output
[1] "This new lesson looks good"
```

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## Challenge 2: how do you nest solutions within challenge blocks?

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You can add a line with at least three colons and a `solution` tag.

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## Figures

You can use standard markdown for static figures with the following syntax:

`![optional caption that appears below the figure](figure url){alt='alt text for
accessibility purposes'}`

![You belong in The Carpentries!](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/carpentries/logo/master/Badge_Carpentries.svg){alt='Blue Carpentries hex person logo with no text.'}

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Callout sections can highlight information.

They are sometimes used to emphasise particularly important points
but are also used in some lessons to present "asides":
content that is not central to the narrative of the lesson,
e.g. by providing the answer to a commonly-asked question.

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## Math

One of our episodes contains $\LaTeX$ equations when describing how to create
dynamic reports with {knitr}, so we now use mathjax to describe this:

`$\alpha = \dfrac{1}{(1 - \beta)^2}$` becomes: $\alpha = \dfrac{1}{(1 - \beta)^2}$

Cool, right?

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- Use `.md` files for episodes when you want static content
- Use `.Rmd` files for episodes when you need to generate output
- Run `sandpaper::check_lesson()` to identify any issues with your lesson
- Run `sandpaper::build_lesson()` to preview your lesson locally

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[r-markdown]: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/

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