Tips to format your post

It is highly recommended that you properly format your post before submitting it. The following is a brief summary of some of the most common formatting commands.

These tips derived from tutoring sessions with @razvanelul as well as this [Markdown cheat sheet.][[1]]

Headers

To create Headers (large text), use an #

The more ##### you use the SMALLER the text will appear.

Make sure to leave a space between the # and the word you want to enlarge

1. Header1
   1. Header2
      1. Header3
         1. Header4
            1. Header5
               1. Header6

Largest is # word

Smallest is ###### word

Bold

To make a word appear in bold font, use ** before and after the word

You do NOT need to leave spaces between the ** and the word

**word**

Italics

To make a word appear in italics use a single * on each side of the word

You do NOT need to leave spaces between the * and the word

*word*

Link

To link a website to a word or phrase in your post, use [ ] and ( )

The text goes in the [ ] and the link goes in the ( )

[word or phrase](website.com)

Picture

To include a picture, paste the address of the image into your post.

Video

To include a video, paste the link into your post.

Center Pictures, Videos, or Text

To center the picture use <center> and </center>

<center>picture.jpg</center>

To center text use <center> and </center>

<center> word </center>

To center a video use <center> and </center>

<center> videolink </center>

Breaks

To create a small spaces above and below the picture, use <br>

<br> <center>picture.jpg</center> <br>

Captions

To make it appear that a picture has a caption, use the break feature, center feature and the italics feature. (Special thanks to @razvanelul for this cool idea)

<br> <center>picture.jpg</center>

<center>*caption*</center> <br>