This add-on adds the following supplementary formatting buttons to Anki:

• a code button that will wrap selected text in a <code> (default: Ctrl + ,). You can specify the CSS class you want to use in combination with <code>. For example, we have a CSS class named c defined in the Styling section of Cards:

    .c {
        font-family: droid sans mono;
        background-color: #f2f2f2;
        padding-left: 5px;
        padding-right: 5px;
    }
  

  In the options Tools > Power Format Pack add-on (options) > CSS class for <code> and <pre> code blocks we can specify the class name, so that our <code> elements will be automatically transformed to <code class="c">.

• an unordered list button (default Ctrl + [):

  • One
  • Two
  • Three

• an ordered list button (default Ctrl + ]):

  1. One
  2. Two
  3. Three

• an indent button (default Ctrl + Shift + ]) to indent text or lists:

  1. One
     • Two
       1. Three

• an outdent button (default Ctrl + Shift + [) to outdent text or lists

• a strikethrough button (default Alt + Shift + 5):

  strikethrough text example

• a code block button (default Ctrl + .) that creates a <pre> block element around the selected element. This works the same way the code button works. You can specify the CSS class you want to use in combination with <pre> by going to Tools > Power Format Pack add-on (options) > CSS class for <code> and <pre> code blocks

• a horizontal rule button (default Ctrl + H) that inserts a horizontal rule after the current position of the cursor

• a definition list button (default Ctrl + Shift + D):

  definition term

  definition description

  Upon clicking the button, a popup will appear where you can enter your terms and descriptions.

• a table button (default Ctrl + Shift + 3):

  header	header
  content	content

  Select the text you want to create a table from. This works very much the same as a Markdown list:

    header1 | header2
    -|-
    elem1 | elem2
  

  This will create a list with two columns and two rows. The -|- part is optional, but can be used to align the column to the left (:-), right (-:) or to the center (:-:). You can skip this line completely, but do make sure you add a pipe character | between elements to designate a border.

  Alternatively, if you do not select any text, upon clicking the Create a table button you will be presented with a dialog window asking you to specify the number of rows and columns.

  In the option menu, you can select whether you want your tables to be styled by the add-on (default) or if you prefer to use your own style sheet.

• a keyboard key button (default Ctrl + Shift + K):

  This will create a keyboard key, for example Esc. By itself, the text that is wrapped in <kbd> will not look any different from the rest of the text. You have to style it first by going to the Styling section of Cards and add CSS to your liking. For example:

    kbd {
        box-shadow: inset 0px 1px 0px 0px #ffffff;
        background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0.05, #f9f9f9), color-stop(1, #e9e9e9) );
        background-color: #f9f9f9;
        border-radius: 5px;
        border: 1px solid #dcdcdc;
        display: inline-block;
        font-size: 0.8em;
        height: 30px;
        line-height: 30px;
        padding: 0px 10px;
        text-align: center;
        text-shadow: 1px 1px 0px #ffffff;
    }
  

• a hyperlink button (default Ctrl + Shift + H):

  Upon pressing the button, you will be presented with a dialog window where you can enter both a link and text. To unlink a hyperlink, use the unlink button.

• a text highlight button (default Ctrl + Shift + N to select color, Ctrl + Shift + B to apply it):

  Highlight your text with colors.

• a blockquote button (default Ctrl + Shift + Y):

  Cite your source distinctively from the rest of the text. You can add an author by putting brackets around the text:

    Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. [[John F. Kennedy]]
  

  Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
  John F. Kennedy

• alignment buttons:

  Align your text left, right, center or justified. Shortcuts are Ctrl + Shift + Alt + L, R, B and J, respectively.

• a heading button (shortcut Ctrl + Alt + 1):

  You can either create a heading by prepending text with hashes: # for a <h1> heading, ###### for a <h6> heading. If you do not prepend any hashes, or if you select no text at all, a dialog will appear where you can create your own heading.

You can use Markdown to style your notes. Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool that lets you quicky style your notes. If you don't know Markdown yet, have a look at this tutorial.

Markdown is disabled by default, to keep this add-on as modularised as possible. To enable it, go to settings and tick the checkbox next to "Markdown". Restart Anki to complete the process.

When you click the Markdown button, your Markdown syntax will be translated into HTML and displayed. You are now in Markdown mode. Markdown mode is indicated by the changed background color and the warning message under the field you are editing. In Markdown mode, you cannot use any of the formatting buttons you would normally have access to. This is done to prevent any accidental editing of the displayed result. If you want to make changes to the card, first toggle the Markdown button again and go back to normal mode.

However, if you absolutely need to edit the card in Markdown mode, you can choose to keep the buttons enabled from the options menu, by ticking the checkbox Allow editing of rendered Markdown.

When you do add text to your card or alter the HTML directly in Markdown mode, a dialog box will appear asking whether you want to revert to your previous Markdown syntax, or try to incorperate the changes in your card. Be advised, however, that the result may lose some of your original Markdown syntax, especially if the original syntax was complex (footnotes, tables, code blocks).

To make sure you always return to your original syntax when exiting Markdown mode, you can check the Always automatically revert back to saved Markdown checkbox in the options. Doing this will never show you the warning dialog box and will always discard any changes made in Markdown mode.

I recommend you use either Markdown or the rich formatting buttons, but not both at the same time. Markdown was designed to be a fast and simple way to quickly write relatively simple formatted text. As such, it won't know what to do with complex cards that use formatting unknown to the Markdown specification. So when clicking the Markdown button, it will "erase" formatting that it does not know how to handle. You were warned.

This addons supports some Markdown syntax not found in John Gruber's original Markdown:

Code blocks can be created by indenting four spaces with a white line before and after the code block. The syntax can be specified either by:

:::java
public class Test { }

or by using:

```python
def print_me(this):
    print "Printing: ", this
```

More (technical) details on code blocks (e.g. highlighting of lines) can be found on the Python Markdown project.

A definition list can be created as follows:

Apple
:   Pomaceous fruit of plants of the genus Malus in
the family Rosaceae.

Orange
:   The fruit of an evergreen tree of the genus Citrus.

Make sure there is a white line between the different definitions.

Footnotes[^1] have a label[^@#$%] and the footnote's content.

[^1]: This is a footnote content.
[^@#$%]: A footnote on the label: "@#$%".

A footnote label must start with a caret ^ and may contain any inline text (including spaces) between a set of square brackets []. Only the first caret has any special meaning.

A footnote content must start with the label followed by a colon and at least one space. The label used to define the content must exactly match the label used in the body (including capitalization and white space). The content would then follow the label either on the same line or on the next line. The content may contain multiple lines, paragraphs, code blocks, blockquotes and most any other markdown syntax. The additional lines must be indented one level (four spaces or one tab).

More (technical) details on footnotes (e.g. multiple blocks of content) can be found on the Python Markdown project.

The Markdown syntax:

The HTML specification
is maintained by the W3C.

*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language
*[W3C]:  World Wide Web Consortium

will be rendered as:

<p>The <abbr title="Hyper Text Markup Language">HTML</abbr> specification
is maintained by the <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr>.</p>

Tables have the same syntax as described above for the table button. Tables can be styled with CSS in your stylesheet.

An example attribute list might look like this:

{: #someid .someclass somekey='some value' }

A word which starts with a hash (#) will set the id of an element.

A word which starts with a dot (.) will be added to the list of classes assigned to an element.

A key/value pair (somekey='some value') will assign that pair to the element.

Be aware that while the dot syntax will add to a class, using key/value pairs will always override the previously defined attribute. Consider the following:

{: #id1 .class1 id=id2 class="class2 class3" .class4 }

The above example would result in the following attributes being defined:

id="id2" class="class2 class3 class4"

Say you have a CSS class:

.large { font-size: 32px; }

You can add this class to a paragraph like this:

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
{: .large}

More (technical) details on attributes (e.g. block-level and inline attributes) can be found on the Python Markdown project.

You can change the default keybindings by editing the keybinding.json file in your Anki/addons/power_format_pack folder. Please keep in mind that there is no check for duplicate keybindings. This means that when a keybinding is already taken by either your OS, Anki, this add-on, or some other running program, the result is undefined.

This file needs to contain valid JSON. Basically this means that the key-value pairs should be enclosed in double quotes:

"key": "value"

The opening and closing braces in the file { and } are mandatory. Each key-value pair should contain a colon : and should end with a comma, except for the last pair. See the file for valid examples.

Invalid JSON cannot be parsed and will result in the use of the default keybindings. If you find that your new keybindings don't work (i.e. they don't show up in Anki, despite you changing this file), please use a JSON validator to check for faulty JSON.

Modifier keys that can be used include: the function keys (F1 through F12), Ctrl, Alt, Shift, ASCII alphanumeric characters, and ASCII punctuation characters. For Mac OS X, be advised that Ctrl maps to the Cmd key (or "Apple key"), NOT to Ctrl. If you want to use the Ctrl key on Mac OS X, use Meta instead. So, Ctrl+Shift+[ on Linux or Windows maps to Meta+Shift+[ on Mac OS X. The string Ctrl+Shift+[ on Mac OS X will require you to type Cmd+Shift+[ in Anki. Please make sure you understand this before opening bug reports.

The use of an invalid key sequence will silently revert the sequence to the default setting. For example, invalid sequences are:

• only modifier keys: Ctrl+Shift
• empty sequence
• non-existing modifier keys: Ctrl+Iota+j

The order or case of the string sequence is unimportant. Ctrl+Alt+p is the same as ALT+CTRL+P or even p+Ctrl+Alt.

If you want to revert your changes to the default keybindings provided by Power Format Pack, please remove the keybindings JSON file in your add-on folder.

The buttons can be enabled or disabled individually in Tools > Power Format Pack add-on (options), so feel free to disable the buttons you don't use.

The preferred way to install is using the Anki add-on site way by copying the add-on code (162313389) into Anki (Tools > Add-ons > Browse & Install...).