source: branches/WebJobManager/HeuristicLab.ExtLibs/HeuristicLab.AvalonEdit/5.0.1/AvalonEdit-5.0.1/Highlighting/Resources/MarkDown-Mode.xshd

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<SyntaxDefinition name="MarkDown" extensions=".md" xmlns="http://icsharpcode.net/sharpdevelop/syntaxdefinition/2008">
  <Color name="Heading" foreground="Maroon" exampleText="# Title #" />
  <Color name="Emphasis" fontStyle="italic" exampleText="*this* is important!" />
  <Color name="StrongEmphasis" fontWeight="bold" exampleText="**this** is more important!" />
  <Color name="Code" exampleText="this is `int.GetHashCode()`" />
  <Color name="BlockQuote" foreground="DarkBlue" exampleText="&gt; This is a\r\n&gt; quote." />
  <Color name="Link" foreground="Blue" exampleText="[text](http://example.com)" />
  <Color name="Image" foreground="Green" exampleText="[text][http://example.com/test.png]" />
  <Color name="LineBreak" background="LightGray" exampleText="end of line      \r\n2nd line   " />
  
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    <Rule color="Heading">
      ^\#.*
    </Rule>
    <Rule color="StrongEmphasis">
      \*\*.*\*\*
    </Rule>
    <Rule color="StrongEmphasis">
      __.*__
    </Rule>
    <Rule color="Emphasis">
      \*(?![ ]).*\*
    </Rule>
    <Rule color="Emphasis">
      _.*_
    </Rule>
    <Rule color="Code">
      `.*`
    </Rule>
    <Span color="Code" ruleSet="C#/" multiline="true">
      <Begin>^\t</Begin>
      <End>^(?!\t)</End>
    </Span>
    <Span color="Code" ruleSet="C#/" multiline="true">
      <Begin>^[ ]{4}</Begin>
      <End>^(?![ ]{4})</End>
    </Span>
    <Span color="BlockQuote" multiline="true">
      <Begin>^&gt;</Begin>
      <End>^(?!&gt;)</End>
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    <Rule color="Image">
      \!\[.*\]\[.*\]
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    <Rule color="Link">
      \[.*\]\(.*\)
    </Rule>
    <Rule color="Link">
      \[.*\]\[.*\]
    </Rule>
    <Rule color="LineBreak">
      [ ]{2}$
    </Rule>
  </RuleSet>
</SyntaxDefinition>