Formatting Your Post

Taken from posts that were originally written by ayePete and daKanga for Duolingo forum.

If you want to mark up your posts to discussions, like apply bold and so on, use the following before and after the word or phrase:

• For Bold, use **yourtext**

• For Italics, use *yourtext* or _yourtext_

• For Bold Italics, use ***
  

• For Strike through text use ~~yourtext~~

• To highlight text use `highlight text` 

To highlight: use the "back tick" key. Often on the top left corner of a keyboard. On the key that also has the tilde ~ . To the left of the 1(one) key. This is NOT the apostrophe/accent grave key ( ' ). This is the "back tick" key. The alt code for ` is 96. 

Other Markup Syntax

• For unordered lists, like the one above use - or a single * followed by a space before each line.

For Example:

- First

- Second

- Third

Produces:

• First
• Second
• Third

• For ordered lists, just start with the number followed by a period, e.g. 1.

For Example:

1. First

2. Second

3. Third

Produces:

1. First
2. Second
3. Third

• To add a link, do it thus [alternate text](link)

For example: [AyePete](AyePete) produces AyePete

• For an image its about the same thing, but a little different: 

For example:

![Example](http://i.imgur.com/FqCm3F5.png) Produces:

• For headers, prepend the heading line with 1 to 6 # signs depending on the level of heading you want.

For example:

#Heading 1

Produces:

<h1>Heading 1</h1>

• To indent, prepend the line with a number of > signs, also depending on the depth of indenting you want.

For example,

>Example

Produces:

Example

• To escape a markup character, use backslash, like this: \[

For Example, \[ produces [

• You can also escape a markup character by placing ticks (`) before and after the phrase.

For example:

`*Example*` produces *Example*