Maddenation
How to Use Textile Formatting (and Why)
Some entries may be pure language, straightforward words with no formatting or links. In those entries, the only thing you need to do is hit return twice between paragraphs and maybe separate a long entry into two parts (using the Extended Entry field). Other entries may want to use bold text or italic text or, in rarely advisable circumstances, underlined text. And, of course, you may want to link to other sites or other parts of this site. If you’re using Internet Explorer on a PC, you can make those formatting changes by highlighting the text you want to format, then clicking on one of the formatting buttons that appear above your entry box. Easy.
If you want more formatting than that though (numbered lists, bullets, indented block quotes, etc.), you can either use HTML in your entry or use Textism tags. HTML would be harder to learn if you don’t know it already, so Textism tags make certain things easier. Here below is a brief list. For more information, see the link above or see Brad Choate’s page (he’s the guy who created the plugin).
What you can do with Textism (for clarity’s sake, I’m writing the commands in bold):
_italic_ Text between underscores is italicized.
*bold* Text between asterisks is emboldened.
^superscript^ Text between by carets is superscripted.
~subscript~ Text between tildes is subscripted."linktext":url Text between quotes followed by a colon and a URL (remember to use http://) is hyperlinked.
(tm) translates to ™.
(c) translates to ©.
(r) translates to ®.
nxn When the letter x is surrounded by numbers, it is translated to the × character.bq. This begins a block-quoted paragraph (which ends when the paragraph ends). You need to have a space between your bq. and the beginning of your quoted material.
# This (always with a space) begins a numbered list. Each new line beginning with a # and a space is a new numbered item.
* This (always with a space) begins a bulleted list. Each new line beginning with a * and a space is a new bulleted item.
== This turns off Textile until you give it another == (which may be at the end of the current paragraph or some later paragraph). I had to use this here in this list (and write HTML) so I could write out the Textile tags and they wouldn't be interpreted.
Those are the tags I think someone might want to use. There’s also a way to include images, but we’ll get to that soon. If you want to read more about Textile, visit the links above. Enjoy!
Patrick • Instructions • 02/17/03 • 0 comments
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