How to use FreewayTalk

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Sorry if this has been asked before.

Is there a set of instructions on the markup you can use in FreewayTalk for code, etc?

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The posts use a modified form of Markdown for styling. You can see the basics of Markdown at Daring Fireball: Markdown

The extensions are partly my own making, and partly from Michel Fortin, who wrote the PHP port of Markdown (original is in Perl) that we use – Markdown Extra.

To write a block of code in normal Markdown, you would indent each line of the block with four (or more) spaces. That will work, but you can also use “gated” code here. All by itself on a line before your block of code, type four tildes (~) in a row. Nothing else on that line, either. Do the same immediately following your block of code.

Markdown Extra also allows you to create tables without writing actual HTML. Use pipes and dashes to create the header row, and pipes between each cell in each following row. You can see more at Michel’s site: PHP Markdown Extra

In all cases, the live preview on the Web site will show you precisely how your post will look to everyone else. Every second or so, an Ajax callback scoops up whatever you’ve typed and runs it through the exact same interpreter as the Web site uses normally, and displays the results above the submit button.

Walter

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Thanks.

I found the Daring Fireball link after looking at the signature box in My Account. I don’t know if many people ask this question, but maybe a reference to Michel’s site on the About This Site page would be useful?

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