Use Markdown to format your comments

Pete — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:43:00 +0100

The blog software we’re using (Typo) has a couple of great filters that allow you to write fancy-schmancy HTML in articles and comments without actually having to know any.

To me, the most impressive is Markdown because the syntax is immediately familiar to anyone who uses text email.

For example, to emphasise a word you do *this* (i.e. produces this). Use two **asterisks** to make it bold.

You can
produce
a list

by typing this:

- item 1
- item 2
- item 3

Links

Links are very easy.

[Google UK](http://www.google.co.uk)

will produce this: Google UK

Headings

You can create headings in a number of ways. Either underline it with - or =, like this:

heading
-------

or add # before the heading text. You can add between 1 and 6 #s - 1 produces the biggest title, 6 the smallest.

# Largest Heading (i.e. H1 in HTML)
###### Smallest (H6)

For a complete guide, go to the Markdown Syntax Documentation.

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Use Markdown to format your comments

Links

Headings