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# Documentation Capabilities ​

This page lays out the capabilities used by the QMK Firmware documentation, in order to aid future transitions to other page generators. Focuses mainly on things other than normal Markdown, as it's assumed that markdown generators should still function accordingly.

## Overall capabilities ​

Unrelated to styling, high-level tech.

- Title anchors -- `:id=some-anchor-name`, used for direct linking to sections
  - Links to anchors:
    - Style 1: early initialization
    - Style 2: early initialization
    - Links to anchors on the same page, i.e. Emoji
- Specifying CNAME for root domain -- `docs.qmk.fm`
- Moved pages, see `index.html`
- Text search
- Footnotes like this

### Dividing lines ​

### Images ​

### Lists ​

Newlines with `<br>`:

Line one
Line two
Line three

Nested dotted:

- The PR is complete and ready to merge
- GitHub checks for the PR are green whenever possible
  - A "red" check may be disregarded by maintainers if the items flagged are unrelated to the change proposed in the PR
    - Modifications to existing files should not need to add license headers to pass lint, for instance.
    - If it's not directly related to your PR's functionality, prefer avoiding making a change.

Nested dashed:

- The PR is complete and ready to merge
- GitHub checks for the PR are green whenever possible
  - A "red" check may be disregarded by maintainers if the items flagged are unrelated to the change proposed in the PR
    - Modifications to existing files should not need to add license headers to pass lint, for instance.
    - If it's not directly related to your PR's functionality, prefer avoiding making a change.

Nested numbered:

1. The PR is complete and ready to merge
2. GitHub checks for the PR are green whenever possible
   1. A "red" check may be disregarded by maintainers if the items flagged are unrelated to the change proposed in the PR
      1. Modifications to existing files should not need to add license headers to pass lint, for instance.
      2. If it's not directly related to your PR's functionality, prefer avoiding making a change.

Nested mixed:

1. Add it to the schema in `data/schemas/keyboards.jsonschema`
2. Add a mapping in `data/maps`
3. (optional and discouraged) Add code to extract/generate it to:

- `lib/python/qmk/info.py`
- `lib/python/qmk/cli/generate/config_h.py`
- `lib/python/qmk/cli/generate/rules_mk.py`

### Emoji ​

#### Direct: ​

👍🎉 First off, thanks for taking the time to read this and contribute! 🎉👍

#### As colon-name-colon: ​

✔️ : works and was tested

⭕ : does not apply

❌ : not supported by MCU

### XML Entities ​

`clueboard` ← This is the organization folder, there's no `rules.mk` file

1–4

Command+```

## Styling ​

### CSS-ish ​

This is 150% of normal sizing, and bold!

### Tables ​

Column A | Column B
--- | ---
Left | Right

### Indented sections ​

> Indent without any sort of marker

?> Query, this?

!> Notification, damnit!

INFO

This is an info box.

TIP

This is a tip.

WARNING

This is a warning.

DANGER

This is a dangerous warning.

Details

This is a details block.

### Keyboard keys ​

`,`

`Right Alt`+`Right Shift`

1. Click `File` > `New` > `Makefile Project with Existing Code`

2. Click ``File` > `Preferences >` > `Settings``

3. Hit Ctrl-``` (Grave) to bring up the terminal or go to ``View` > `Terminal`` (command `workbench.action.terminal.toggleTerminal`). A new terminal will be opened if there isn‘t one already.

   This should start the terminal in the workspace's folder (so the `qmk_firmware` folder), and then you can compile your keyboard.

### Code Blocks ​

Inline code with tag: `test`

Inline code with backticks: `test`

    This is preformatted
    Indented by 4 spaces
    The letters lined up

c

    int c_code(void) {
        return -1;
    }

makefile

    ifeq ($(BUILD),)
         CHUNDER_REQUIRED = yes
    endif

python

    from pathlib import Path

    p = Path('/path/to/qmk_firmware')

json

    {
        "a": "b",
        "c": 4,
        "d": {
            "e": [
                0, 1, 2, 3
            ]
        }
    }

diff

     #undef RGBLIGHT_LED_COUNT
    +#undef RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_STATIC_GRADIENT
    +#undef RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_RAINBOW_SWIRL
     #define RGBLIGHT_LED_COUNT 12
     #define RGBLIGHT_HUE_STEP 8
     #define RGBLIGHT_SAT_STEP 8

Indented code as part of a list:

- QMK Toolbox (recommended GUI)
- Teensy Loader
- Teensy Loader Command Line / `:teensy` target in QMK (recommended command line)

      teensy_loader_cli -v -mmcu=<mcu> <filename>

### Sub/Superscript ​

This is subscripted, apparently.

This is superscripted, apparently.

I2C

T0H, T0L

### Tabs ​

Tabs are based on section headers, with `**` enclosing the tab title.

#### ** Tab one ** ​

Content one

##### ** Nested one ** ​

Nested content one

##### ** Nested two ** ​

Nested content two

#### ** Tab two ** ​

Content two

#### ** Tab three ** ​

Content three

a content 2

## Details sections ​

Expandable:

Some summary text that shows up before expanding

!> Embedded notification!

This is some inner content.

## Embed ​

example embed

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.