h1: Appendix A: Text Markup Reference
I want... | Use ... |
Bold |
*text* |
Bold and italic |
__text__ |
Emphasis (see italics) | |
Emphasis and strong (see italic and bold) | |
Heading |
Heading 1 |
Horizontal rule | A line consisting only of four or more underscores or hyphens |
Italic and bold |
__text__ |
Italics |
_text_ |
Link |
"text":http://www.your.com/ "text":/path/to/file.html "text":#section "text":mailto:me@my.com |
Named anchor |
"text"=#name |
Ordered list items |
Indented text of form:
N. item Nx. itemwhere x can be: - 1 - for arabic numerals - I - for uppercase roman numerals - i - for lowercase roman numerals - A - for uppercase letters - a - for lowercase letters |
Paragraph | Blocks of text separated by blank lines are treated as paragraphs |
Preformatted text (an HTML <pre> section) | Indented text not beginning with an ordered or unordered list token (a hyphen, asterisk, letter-o, or plus followed by a space, or an N. or NX. sequence followed by a space - see "Ordered list items" and "Unordered list items" entries) |
Strong (see bold) | |
Strong and emphasis (see bold and italic) | |
Unordered list items |
Indented text of form:
- item (presentation browser-specific) * disc-marked item o circle-marked item + square-marked item |
Note that various text markup features can be turned off using metadata - see the FAQ if markup isn't working as you'd expect.