What does a ':' in Markdown do?

Question

I've been working on my resume and decided to drop the word document and switch to markdown. I forked markdown-resume and have been working on porting over my resume, but have run into some problems. I'm not all too familiar with markdown and css, but I managed to change some things to my liking.

I'm trying to figure out how

### Education {#education}

University of Nebraska-Lincoln
: *Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering*
  __2011 - 2015__

gets translated to

<dl>
  <dt>University of Nebraska-Lincoln</dt>
  <dd><em>Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering</em>
  <strong>2011 - 2015</strong></dd>
</dl>

I know that build.php runs

$resume   = file_get_contents($source);
$resume = Markdown($resume);
$resume = SmartyPants($resume);

and then renders using

$m = new Mustache;
$rendered = $m->render(
    $template,
    array(
        'title'  => $title,
        'style'  => $style,
        'resume' => $resume,
        'reload' => $refresh_dev
    )
);

where $template is the html base template and $style is an AssetCollection containing "/assets/css/*.css".

I think the semicolon might have something to do with it. Here's a link to the css files being used.

Answer 1

Colon treats the current line as a definition for the previous line.

Example:

Markdown
: A nifty little tool to write richly formatted text using plain text formatting!

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