Thanks for the welcome. I had a few simple questions. How to get bullet points in comments? How to make text into hyperlinks? and How to get that blue line on the left margin when quoting something?
Much of it is explained by the text that appears when you click the “Help” link below the comment. (Look below the text window at the right.) But to do those three things specifically:
Bulletted lists: Put an asterisk (*) at the beginning of each line corresponding to an item on the list. Edit: You may need to put a space after the asterisk.
Thanks for the welcome. I had a few simple questions. How to get bullet points in comments? How to make text into hyperlinks? and How to get that blue line on the left margin when quoting something?
Much of it is explained by the text that appears when you click the “Help” link below the comment. (Look below the text window at the right.) But to do those three things specifically:
Bulletted lists: Put an asterisk (*) at the beginning of each line corresponding to an item on the list. Edit: You may need to put a space after the asterisk.
Hyperlinks: Put the text you want visible in square brackets, then immediately after (no space) the URL in parentheses. Thus: [Three Worlds Collide](http://lesswrong.com/lw/y4/three_worlds_collide_08/) becomes Three Worlds Collide.
Blockquotes: Put a greater-than (>) sign at the beginning of each quoted line (including blank lines between paragraphs).
The full specification of the Markdown Syntax has more detail.
Comments use markdown formatting. It’s very similar to how one might format an email.