Tildes and comment formatting, markdown: a quick and dirty guide

AugustusFerdinand
2023-07-07T23:24:34Z

At the suggestion of a certain heathen who shall remain unnamed. I'm tossing up a quick and dirty comment (and post text) formatting guide. There is a formatting guide in the docs/wiki with a link just above the comment box, but it can be a bit much to digest.

*italics*
**bold**
~~strikethrough~~
[Text goes here](URL goes here)
small text
subscript
superscript
# headline
`code which removes the formatting and makes it look like this block`
* bulleted
* lists
1. and
1. numbered
1. lists

Spoilers is a bit more complicated, the start and end is required, but the start and end is not unless you want text in the summary or you want the summary to be blank.


Summary text!

Body text inside spoiler!


For example if you leave out the summary code then the box just says "Details" like this.

Or you can have a summary...

...like this.

Or by leaving the text between the summary code blank you can have the box be empty but still have spoiler text within

You can use formatting like bold, italics, or even...

...spoilers within spoilers!
...but you have to leave an extra line above this or it *won't work* and your formatting will be revealed to **all!**

Three underscores (or dashes, but dashes require an extra line) in a row on their own line creates a blank line to divide a topic...
---

You also have a sub-headline text option by putting a single dash under text...
-
...or headline text by putting an equal sign under text.
=

If you like userscripts (who doesn't?) you can install extensions like ViolentMonkey that allow you to install little bits of code like the Tildes Formatting Toolbar that can change/improve the sites you use and make formatting here a breeze.

Do use the formatting responsibly, but here are examples for bold, italics, strikethrough, links, small text, subscript, superscript,

headline text,

sub-headline text,

code,

bulleted

lists,

1. and

2. numbered

3. lists

Most formatting can be combined as well such as superscripts, lines, and small text to make...

...sentences with a...¹

¹...footnote

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