Structured text formatting rules in a nutshell
- If the top popup menu is present, use the Structured Text page type.
- For the most part, you can just edit text in the usual way. HTML tags can be mixed in with Structured Text if desired.
- Names with internal capitals, [text in brackets], http://URLs , and structured text-style links are made into hyperlinks
- Text beginning and ending with *, **, _ or ' is italic, bold, underlined or monospaced respectively
- One or more non-blank lines are run together form a paragraph; blank lines separate paragraphs
- A one-line "paragraph" followed by a more-indented paragraph makes a heading (use spaces for indenting)
- A paragraph beginning with - or * or 0 and a space makes a bullet or numbered list item; list items must all be indented at the same level
- A more-indented list item starts a sub-list or makes a preceding paragraph a heading
- Highlighted quotes, comments and annotations inserted into a document can begin and end with HTML <blockquote>...</blockquote> tags
- If a paragraph ends in '::' and is followed by more indented text, the indented text will be displayed in monospaced font without formatting (as inside HTML <pre> tags) for as long as the indentation continues.
- Footnote citations are entered in text as numbers in square brackets '[1]' (no quotes) and the footnote itself is placed on a line that begins '.. [1]' and is followed by the footnote content. Footnotes can be anywhere in the document. Citation numbers and footnotes are bidirectionally linked.
- Some or all of the above rules may be escaped, by putting ! at the beginning of a word or a line
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