Markdown formatting
Beware: while used lightly it can make text more readable, overuse can get in the way pretty fast…
Discourse use Markdown (invented by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz ) to let the user quickly format their text.
https://commonmark.org/help/
Bellow, I use backticks to get some Preformatted text
(you can use the button to get such backticks around your text)
You can also use triple backticks before and after a paragraph. It’s usually made to display code though.
want | how |
---|---|
italic | *italic* |
bold | **bold** |
italic bold | ***italic bold*** |
big | <big>big</big> |
small | <small>small</small> |
small but under the line | <sub>small but under the line</sub> |
~~strikethrough~~ |
|
underlined | [u]underlined[/u] |
key | <kbd>key</kbd> |
Tables in Markdown language: