Rivertown United Reformed Church

This page briefly explains how to format your posts to include styles (bold, italic, lists, etc) or other content (posting and attaching images, and linking to other sites). If you've posted on a forum before then you've probably used a system similar to BBCode. This website uses a similar system, but one which is much simpler to use and read called Markdown. Full documentation is available here and here, and is recommended if you're a regular poster.

Basic text formatting

To create a new paragraph, hit return twice while typing. In other words, leave a blank line between seperate paragraphs.

To start a new line, put two spaces at the end of the line that you want to break. This isn't necessary if you just want to post a regular message, only if you want or need the extra control.

Style

To post bold text, put two stars (*) either side of the word or sentence.

Example: This is a sentence with a **bold** word.
Result: This is a sentence with a bold word.

To post italics, use a single star.

Example: This sentence has an *italic* word.
Result: This sentence has an italic word.

You can even include these in the middle of a word.

Example: un*believ*able
Result: unbelievable

Quotes

To quote a previous post or reference some text use > at the beginning of a paragraph, or at the start of each line you wish to display as a quote:

> This is a blockquote, I have included it here so 
> as people reading the thread later on will not get confused.

or:

> This is a blockquote, I have included it here so 
as people reading the thread later on will not get confused.

You can also nest quotes:

> This is the first level of quoting.
>
> > This is nested blockquote.
>
> Back to the first level.

and include other styling elements:

> ## This is a header.
> 
> 1.   This is the first list item.
> 2.   This is the second list item.

Links

To post a link to another site, you have two options.

• Surround your link with brackets <http://www.rivertown.org.uk/> and it will be converted automatically:

• Provide some link text and a target, like this: [click here](http://www.rivertown.org.uk/). Result: click here

Images

Posting an image is similar to the second linking method above. You need two things: the URL to the image you want to post, and a title for it, which should be two or three words that describes the image you're posting. :

\!\[logo\]\(http://www.rivertown.org.uk/site/themes/rivertown/images/rurc_logo.png\)

Result:

Don't forget the exclamation mark at the start of this one, or you'll post a link to the image instead of inserting it into your post.

Lists

To post a list of things, begin each of your items with a star:

\* Item 1  
\* Item 2  
\* Item 3  

... and it will be converted into this:

• Item 1
• Item 2
• Item 3

You can also use numbers to define a numbered list:

1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3

will be converted to:

1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3