Thread:Sakaros/@comment-26925323-20150825034050/@comment-104549-20150825035245

Well, the basics of coding are in the Coding Tutorial. But some of the most common ones needed for almost all articles:

Two single quotes = italics (used for emphasis and ship names) So  becomes italics

Three single quotes = bold (used for article titles in the body of the article) So  becomes bold

Five single quotes = bolded italics (used mostly for ship names that happen to be the article title) So  becomes bolded italics

To make a bullet list of things, use the asterisk So (on separate lines)

becomes


 * Point 1
 * Point 2
 * Point 3

To indent them further, just add asterisks to the beginning.

To make article subdivisions (that show up in a table of contents), use the equals sign. So

becomes

Subdivision
And you can add an extra equals sign on each side to make further subsections. Beyond four, though, they start to get small.

The Sandbox exists for you to test out all this; just click "Play in the Sandbox" to take a whack at it.

To see finished products, you can check out my work here. I'm not saying my articles are the gold standard of article-writing, but I do (double single quotes for italics!) try to keep everything according to article guidelines and custom.

I know it's a lot to absorb, so your best bet is to test drive these various coding tricks in the Sandbox to see how they work firsthand.