GitHub MarkDown: Are Macros and Variables possible?

Question

I\'ve been learning github markdown, I had a question about variables and macros.

is it possible to define a variable or macro to prevent repeated printing of a block of

Answer 1

Below are a few ways to write Reference-Links

[I'm an inline-style link](https://www.somewebsite.com)

[I'm an inline-style link with title](https://www.somewebsite.com "somewebsite's Homepage")

[I'm a reference-style link][Arbitrary case-insensitive reference text]

[I'm a relative reference to a repository file](../blob/master/LICENSE)

[You can use numbers for reference-style link definitions][1]

Or leave it empty and use the [link text itself]

Some text to show that the reference links can follow later.

[arbitrary case-insensitive reference text]: https://www.somewebsite.org
[1]: http://somewebsite.org
[link text itself]: http://www.somewebsite.com

Answer 2

GitHub Markdown (for .md files) has variables through capture:

{% capture nameOfVariableToCapture %}any markdown here...{% endcapture %}

{{ nameOfVariableToCapture }} -- that prints the content of the variable

or from {% assign variableName = "text etc." %}.

As a test, I created https://github.com/SeLite/SeLite.github.io/blob/master/MarkdownTest.md. You can see its content at http://selite.github.io/MarkdownTest (ignore the header and footer, that comes from a framework).

Answer 3

You can use a feature of Markdown called "Reference-style links".

[link text][id] or just [link text] if link-text is unique and consist only of letters, numbers, spaces and punctuation. They are not case sensitive.

then somewhere in the document you define what id is:

[id]: http://example.com/whatever

See https://github.com/biserkov/markdown-playground/blob/master/README.md and

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/biserkov/markdown-playground/master/README.md