Formatting Comments
The After Our Time forum uses the Markdown syntax for formatting comments. It’s a little different from what you will see on other forums, but it’s fairly straightforward. Here’s a quick guide. The text in green is what you type into the comment box.
Emphasis
*hello* will produce italics: hello
**hello** will produce bold: hello
Links
For most people, if you want to link to a site, you are best off simply taking the web address and putting it inside angle brackets, e.g.:
<http://www.afterourtime.com> will produce http://www.afterourtime.com
If you want to do a proper inline link, here’s how:
[After Our Time](http://www.afterourtime.com) will produce After Our Time
Lists
Bullet point lists are very simple:
* orange
* red
* blue
will belcome:
- orange
- red
- blue
You can also use other symbols such as - or + for the bullet marker, although it’ll all come out looking the same.
Numbered lists are also easy:
1. orange
2. red
3. blue
will become:
- orange
- red
- blue (I appreciate that this looks exactly the same here, but in reality it’s much better formatted)
Headers and text size
First off, don’t abuse this. No-one wants to see huge text cluttering up the comments. But if you think you really, really need it, here’s what you do:
# This is an H1 (really big text)
## This is an H2 (very big text)
### This is an H3 (big text)
#### This is an H4 (etc)
It goes on to H6. Don’t use H1. If you want to be neat, you can close the header text with trailing #s but you don’t have to.
More information
If, for some reason, you need even more formatting than what’s described in here, then please consult the full Markdown Syntax Documentation.