application-development: basics: fix missing markup

Additionally: a few minor formating fixes

markdown/application-development/basics/bins.md

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ take ownership of that element. If you destroy the bin, the element will
 be dereferenced with it. If you remove an element from a bin, it will be
 dereferenced automatically.
 
-```
+```c
 #include <gst/gst.h>
 
 int
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ The application programmer can create custom bins packed with elements
 to perform a specific task. This allows you, for example, to write an
 Ogg/Vorbis decoder with just the following lines of code:
 
-```
+```c
 int
 main (int   argc,
       char *argv[])
@@ -133,11 +133,11 @@ pipeline to start up the pipeline or shut it down.
 
 The bin will perform the state changes on all its children from the sink
 element to the source element. This ensures that the downstream element
-is ready to receive data when the upstream element is brought to PAUSED
-or PLAYING. Similarly when shutting down, the sink elements will be set
-to READY or NULL first, which will cause the upstream elements to
-receive a FLUSHING error and stop the streaming threads before the
-elements are set to the READY or NULL state.
+is ready to receive data when the upstream element is brought to `PAUSED`
+or `PLAYING`. Similarly when shutting down, the sink elements will be set
+to `READY` or `NULL` first, which will cause the upstream elements to
+receive a `FLUSHING` error and stop the streaming threads before the
+elements are set to the `READY` or `NULL` state.
 
 Note, however, that if elements are added to a bin or pipeline that's
 already running, , e.g. from within a "pad-added" signal callback, its

markdown/application-development/basics/bus.md

@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ There are two different ways to use a bus:
     using `gst_bus_add_watch ()`. This handler will be called whenever
     the pipeline emits a message to the bus. In this handler, check the
     signal type (see next section) and do something accordingly. The
-    return value of the handler should be TRUE to keep the handler
-    attached to the bus, return FALSE to remove it.
+    return value of the handler should be `TRUE` to keep the handler
+    attached to the bus, return `FALSE` to remove it.
 
   - Check for messages on the bus yourself. This can be done using
     `gst_bus_peek ()` and/or `gst_bus_poll ()`.
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Note that if you're using the default GLib mainloop integration, you
 can, instead of attaching a watch, connect to the “message” signal on
 the bus. This way you don't have to `switch()` on all possible message
 types; just connect to the interesting signals in form of
-“message::\<type\>”, where \<type\> is a specific message type (see
+`message::<type>`, where `<type>` is a specific message type (see
 the next section for an explanation of message types).
 
 The above snippet could then also be written as:

markdown/application-development/basics/elements.md

@@ -417,8 +417,8 @@ Those four states are:
     allowed to play the data which would make the clock run. In summary,
     PAUSED is the same as PLAYING but without a running clock.
 
-    Elements going into the PAUSED state should prepare themselves for
-    moving over to the PLAYING state as soon as possible. Video or audio
+    Elements going into the `PAUSED` state should prepare themselves for
+    moving over to the `PLAYING` state as soon as possible. Video or audio
     outputs would, for example, wait for data to arrive and queue it so
     they can play it right after the state change. Also, video sinks can
     already play the first frame (since this does not affect the clock
@@ -427,14 +427,14 @@ Those four states are:
     filters, do not need to explicitly do anything in this state,
     however.
 
-  - `GST_STATE_PLAYING`: in the PLAYING state, an element does exactly
-    the same as in the PAUSED state, except that the clock now runs.
+  - `GST_STATE_PLAYING`: in the `PLAYING` state, an element does exactly
+    the same as in the `PAUSED` state, except that the clock now runs.
 
 You can change the state of an element using the function
 `gst_element_set_state ()`. If you set an element to another state,
 GStreamer will internally traverse all intermediate states. So if you
-set an element from NULL to PLAYING, GStreamer will internally set the
-element to READY and PAUSED in between.
+set an element from `NULL` to `PLAYING`, GStreamer will internally set the
+element to `READY` and `PAUSED` in between.
 
 When moved to `GST_STATE_PLAYING`, pipelines will process data
 automatically. They do not need to be iterated in any form. Internally,

markdown/application-development/basics/helloworld.md

@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ the pipeline bus so we can retrieve errors and detect the end-of-stream.
 
 Let's now add all the code together to get our very first audio player:
 
-``` c
 
+``` c
 #include <gst/gst.h>
 #include <glib.h>
 
@@ -196,7 +196,6 @@ main (int   argc,
   return 0;
 }
 
-
 ```
 
 We now have created a complete pipeline. We can visualise the pipeline
@@ -212,11 +211,14 @@ as follows:
 
 ## Compiling and Running helloworld.c
 
-To compile the helloworld example, use: `gcc -Wall
-helloworld.c -o helloworld
-$(pkg-config --cflags --libs gstreamer-1.0)`. GStreamer makes use of
-`pkg-config` to get compiler and linker flags needed to compile this
-application.
+To compile the helloworld example, use:
+
+```
+gcc -Wall helloworld.c -o helloworld $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gstreamer-1.0)
+```
+
+GStreamer makes use of `pkg-config` to get compiler and linker
+flags needed to compile this application.
 
 If you're running a non-standard installation (ie. you've installed
 GStreamer from source yourself instead of using pre-built packages),
@@ -225,9 +227,11 @@ correct location (`$libdir/pkgconfig`).
 
 In the unlikely case that you are using an uninstalled GStreamer setup
 (ie. gst-uninstalled), you will need to use libtool to build the hello
-world program, like this: `libtool --mode=link gcc -Wall
-helloworld.c -o helloworld
-$(pkg-config --cflags --libs gstreamer-1.0)`.
+world program, like this:
+
+```
+libtool --mode=link gcc -Wall helloworld.c -o helloworld $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gstreamer-1.0)
+```
 
 You can run this example application with `./helloworld
 file.ogg`. Substitute `file.ogg` with your favourite Ogg/Vorbis file.

markdown/application-development/basics/init.md

@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ command line options.
 A typical program \[1\] would have code to initialize GStreamer that
 looks like this:
 
-``` c
 
+``` c
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <gst/gst.h>
 
@@ -46,15 +46,13 @@ main (int   argc,
 
   return 0;
 }
-
-
 ```
 
 Use the `GST_VERSION_MAJOR`, `GST_VERSION_MINOR` and `GST_VERSION_MICRO`
 macros to get the GStreamer version you are building against, or use the
 function `gst_version` to get the version your application is linked
 against. GStreamer currently uses a scheme where versions with the same
-major and minor versions are API-/ and ABI-compatible.
+major and minor versions are API- and ABI-compatible.
 
 It is also possible to call the `gst_init` function with two `NULL`
 arguments, in which case no command line options will be parsed by
@@ -62,11 +60,11 @@ GStreamer.
 
 ## The GOption interface
 
-You can also use a GOption table to initialize your own parameters as
+You can also use a `GOption` table to initialize your own parameters as
 shown in the next example:
 
-``` c
 
+``` c
 #include <gst/gst.h>
 
 int
@@ -100,8 +98,6 @@ main (int   argc,
 
   return 0;
 }
-
-
 ```
 
 As shown in this fragment, you can use a

markdown/application-development/basics/pads.md

@@ -179,7 +179,6 @@ the audio samplerate and the amount of channels, plus some more that you
 don't need to worry about for now.
 
 ```
-
 Pad Templates:
   SRC template: 'src'
     Availability: Always
@@ -193,7 +192,6 @@ Pad Templates:
     Availability: Always
     Capabilities:
       audio/x-vorbis
-
 ```
 
 ### Properties and values
@@ -209,8 +207,8 @@ possible value types that can be used:
       - An integer value (`G_TYPE_INT`): the property has this exact
         value.
 
-      - A boolean value (`G_TYPE_BOOLEAN`): the property is either TRUE
-        or FALSE.
+      - A boolean value (`G_TYPE_BOOLEAN`): the property is either `TRUE`
+        or `FALSE`.
 
       - A float value (`G_TYPE_FLOAT`): the property has this exact
         floating point value.