echo "a bash source block"

function hello {
    echo Hello World!
}

hello

a source block without a language

an example block with
multiple lines including


empty lines!

it also has multiple parameters

src, example & export blocks treat their content as raw text
/inline/ *markup* is ignored
      and whitespace is honored and not removed

examples like this
are also supported

note that /inline/ *markup* ignored

Mongodb is webscale. (source: mongodb-is-web-scale)

blocks like the quote block parse their content and can contain

• lists

• inline markup

• tables

  foo

  bar

  baz

• paragraphs

• …

also whitespace is not significant and superfluous whitespace (at the beginning of the line) is removed

• list item 1 blocks can contain unindented lines that would normally end a list item

  this line is not indented - if it was outside of a block the list item would end
  

  this line is not indented - if it was outside of a block the list item would end

  now we're outside the block again and the following unindented line will be outside of the list item

this unindented line is outside of the list item

• list item 2

  #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
  

  #+END_EXAMPLE

  #+BEGIN_QUOTE

  #+END_QUOTE