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I was joking, the formatting ruined it :(
by offsthroway 5y ago
I was joking, the formatting ruined it :(
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- TeMPOraL 5y agoFor future reference, though I see you figured it out: asterisks mark italics, two spaces in front of an empty paragraph mark a code block, URLs in comments gets turned into links automatically. That's about all HN offers in terms of formatting. So, for bullet lists and footnotes, you have to use characters other than asterisks. The format you picked in your edit is one of the typical people arrive at. Myself I do like you[0], but some use daggers instead†, or rarely, superscripts². -- [0] - Though I start my footnotes at 0, because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-based_numbering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-based_numbering. † - Once you get to ‡ and ⸸ it's getting tricky to pick a new one. ² - More often seen in mathematical formulas.