ToledoTalk.com New Help Page

As of Mar 28, 2014. Trying to simplify an overly complicated and long help age at TT.

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Suggestion: When creating a new thread post or a comment, click the "Preview" button to ensure links and formatting work the way you want. When satisfied, then click the "Post" button. You can edit your thread posts to make changes, but you cannot edit your comments.

You can format text with HTML or the Textile markup language. Textile is simpler. Textile uses punctuation marks or short alpha-numeric commands to format text.

Text Formatting

Textile and HTML markup options are provided below.

bold:

• *bolded text*
• <b>bolded text</b>
• <strong>bolded text</strong>

italics:

• _italicized text_
• <i>italicized text</i>
• <em>italicized text</em>

underline:

• +underlined text+
• <u>underlined text</u>

strikethrough

• -strikethrough text-
• <del>strikethrough text</del>
• <strike>strikethrough text</strike>

increase font size

• ++bigger font++
• <big>bigger font</big>

decrease font size

• --smaller font--
• <small>smaller font</small>

Links

Raw URLs are automatically converted to clickable links.

Example: http://downtowntoledo.org
Produces: http://downtowntoledo.org

To create a link with your own supplied text, do one of the following:

Textile markup: surround link text with double quotes, then use colon punctuation mark after second double quote, followed by the URL.

Example: "Food for Thought":http://feedtoledo.org
Produces: Food for Thought

HTML markup:

Example: <a href="http://duckduckgo.com">DuckDuckGo Search Engine</a>
Produces: DuckDuckGo Search Engine

Images

To embed an image, do one of the following:

Textile markup: surround URL to image with exclamation points.

Example:
!http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1258/752540268_5939424ca4_m.jpg!

Produces:

The HTML markup for the same image would be:
<img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1258/752540268_5939424ca4_m.jpg">

Note: the URL for the image will probably end with a .jpg, .gif, or .png.

Blockquotes

• to indent text, do one of the following:
  • example one - textile
  • example two - html

Bullet Point List

• use the asterisk character at the start of a line.

Numbered List

• use pound sign at the start of a line.

Headers

• h 1. Header 1 --> Header 1
• h 2. Header 2 --> Header 2
• h 3. Header 3 --> Header 3

Additional Formatting Commands

q. and q.. To highlight or quote text from another source, surround it with the opening and closing 'q' tags. Both must start at the beginning of the line.

Here is some text being quoted from another article. Instead of using italics or double quotes, leave the text as is but surround it with the open and closing 'q' tags. This highlighted text will be indented a little and will have a light blue background.

br. To add a blank line, start this command at the beginning of the line. It can precede text, or it can be on its own line.

hr. Will add a horizontal rule or a long thin line that stretches across the page. Command must start at the beginning of a line. Example output:

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Etc.

• Lengthy Toledo Talk Help page description
• Textile Help Page - (Textile is the formatting markup used at TT.)
• Textile Quick Reference
• Sanbox - (used to play around with formatting commands)