<p>Admittedly, it&apos;s fairly difficult to devise a &quot;natural&quot; syntax for
placing images into a plain text document format.</p>

<p>Markdown uses an image syntax that is intended to resemble the syntax
for links, allowing for two styles: <em>inline</em> and <em>reference</em>.</p>

<p>Inline image syntax looks like this:</p>

<pre><code>![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg)

![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg &quot;Optional title&quot;)
</code></pre>

<p>That is:</p>

<ul>
<li>An exclamation mark: <code>!</cod