Crossing out
The meeting is on ~~Tuesday~~ Wednesday.The meeting is on Tuesday Wednesday.
Good for corrections you want people to see, and for done items.
Markdown strikethrough. ~~Two tildes~~.
Wrap the text in two tildes on each side: ~~like this~~. Strikethrough comes from GitHub Flavored Markdown and works in nearly every modern Markdown app.
On the left, what you type. On the right, what you get. Every result here was rendered by HushJot itself.
Strikethrough
With other formatting
~~**Sold out**~~ and ~~*maybe*~~
- [x] ~~Pay the invoice~~Sold out and maybe
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Pay the invoice
It combines with bold, italic and task lists.
One tilde is something else
H~2~O and ~not crossed out~H2O and ~not crossed out~
In HushJot, as in Pandoc, one tilde on each side is subscript. GitHub accepts one tilde as strikethrough, but two work everywhere.
Questions
Strikethrough, answered.
- How do I strike through text in Markdown?
- Put two tildes before and after it:
~~text~~. - Is there a shortcut?
- In HushJot, select the text and press ⌘⇧X (Ctrl+Shift+X on Windows and Linux). Press it again to take it off.
- Why doesn’t one tilde work?
- Single tildes mean different things in different apps: strikethrough on GitHub, subscript in HushJot and Pandoc. Two tildes are strikethrough everywhere that supports it.
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