How a post looks

This post exists so you can see the styling. Everything below is ordinary Markdown written in a file in posts/.

Headings and text

That was a level-two heading. They're what you'll use for sections.

And this is a level three

Body text runs at a comfortable measure, with bold, italic, inline code and links all styled to match the tree pages. A long paragraph sets the rhythm of the page: the column is deliberately narrower than the map or the specimen pages, because prose wants roughly sixty-five characters a line and tables of botanical facts do not.

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That was a horizontal rule.

Lists

Unordered:

• Bare, bud burst, in leaf, leaf fall — the same four trees, four times a year
• Anything you can log, you can write about
• Nesting works too:
  • like this
  • and this

Ordered:

1. Photograph it
2. Pin it
3. Measure it, if the tape came out
4. Argue with the machine about what it is

Quotes

Of all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun, Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn.

— Rudyard Kipling, "A Tree Song", from Puck of Pook's Hill (1906)

Photographs

One image on its own line fills the column, with its caption underneath:

Two or three on consecutive lines — no blank line between them — lay out side by side, cropped to a common shape:

Click any of them to open the full-size viewer, exactly as on a tree page.

Tables

Species	Girth	Measured
Giant sequoia	not measured	—
Black poplar	3.45 m	1.5 m
Ash	not measured	—

Code

Useful for the odd lookup command:

python3 scripts/find_bristol_match.py --lat 51.4392 --lon -2.6410 --species "Quercus robur"

Categories and tags

The chip at the top of this post is its category — one per post, for the kind of thing it is. The #hashes at the bottom are tags — as many as you like. Both are clickable, and both filter the blog index. They come from the frontmatter at the top of the file:

category: Meta and tags: [style-test, reference].