Forum Formatting Help

Hey @Jim, thanks for letting us know – we’ll look into it and sort it out.

Hi Jim, thanks for pointing this out. I’ve updated the instructions and the CSS. You should now be able to do bold, italics, blockquotes, links, and images:

Here is some bold text.

And here is some italic text using underscores.
This is a blockquote:

Although it is a cold evening,
down by one of the fishhouses
an old man sits netting,
his net, in the gloaming almost invisible

And here is a link to that poem.

And how about a picture of the poet, using exclamation marks around the URL to the image:

Hi Jim,

The blockquote specifier (bq.) needs to be at the beginning of a new line, otherwise it is ignored. For example, this will work because I’m using bq. to start the line:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

But if I just use bq. in-line, it won’t work: bq. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.