Posted in: Questions

paul

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Member since:
2006-10-25

To get started quickly and easily in the forums, all you need to do is type, and odds are we’re going to make your forum topic look nice.

To do this, we’ve based the interpreter on Markdown, a system for using plain text to represent formatted text. This means that if you do some very basic formatting, we will make your text look all pretty. Here’s a few examples.

Creating a Link.

[Text of the Link](http://www.youraddresshere.com)

The above code (when used in a comment in the forums) results in a link that looks like this:

Text of the Link

Bold and Italics

*italics are simple*

italics are simple

**So is bold.**

So is bold.

Lists

You can make a bullet-list like so:

* Bullet Point 1
* Bullet Point 2
* Bullet Point 3

Note that you can also use a hyphen instead of an asterisk.

The above text will result in this:

• Bullet Point 1
• Bullet Point 2
• Bullet Point 3

You can also create a numbered list. It should look just like a numbered list!

1. Item number one.
2. Item number 2.
3. Item C.

That text will result in the following:

1. Item number one.
2. Item number 2.
3. Item C.

Note that for numbered lists the forums do not care what numbers you use - in other words, you could start each of those lines with the number 1, and your list would still present in order, with the numbers increasing with each item in the list. It just needs to start with a number to be an item in the list.

Those are the big items you’d want to know about. If you want to get really complicated with your formatting, you can have a look at the Markdown link above to read all about the fancy tips and tricks.

Rock & Roll!

–11:18 am, July 4th, 2009