HTML Formatting conventions

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This is ''italic'' and '''bold''' text. This is _underlined_text_. The underlined text begins with an underscore that follows a space, and ends with an underscore that's followed by a space, tab, comma, semicolon, colon, or a period.

This is italic and bold text. This is underlined text. The underlined text begins with an underscore that follows a space, and ends with an underscore that's followed by a space, tab, comma, semicolon, colon, or a period.


= Heading 1

Heading 1

== Heading 2

Heading 2

=== Heading 3

Heading 3

This is an ordinary paragraph.

 Lines of text indented by spaces are shown in fixed width font.

This is an ordinary paragraph.

 Lines of text indented by spaces are shown in fixed width font.


Let's make a bulleted list:

* Item 1. Itemized lists are created by prefixing a line with the "asterisk" character. This begins a list.

* Item 2. Of the same list.

Let's make a numbered list:

# Numbered list are created by beginning the line of text with a # character.

# This is the second entry in the ordered list.

#* Sublists are created by adding additional characters. This is the first entry of the bulleted sublist.

#* This is the second entry of the bulleted sublist.

# The original numbered list continues with this entry.

#+ Repeating the same list character followed by a + adds a paragraph to the list entry.

Let's make a bulleted list:

  • Item 1. Itemized lists are created by prefixing a line with the "asterisk" character. This begins a list.
  • Item 2. Of the same list.

Let's make a numbered list:

  1. Numbered list are created by beginning the line of text with a # character.

  2. This is the second entry in the ordered list.

    • Sublists are created by adding additional characters. This is the first entry of the bulleted sublist.

    • This is the second entry of the bulleted sublist.

  3. The original numbered list continues with this entry.

    Repeating the same list character followed by a + adds a paragraph to the list entry.