How come I can’t get my lists to post properly on this forum? Every time I try it I get a garbled mess. I’m sure this is probably a user error, so please enlighten me:)
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Lists… like grocery lists? What are you talking about or trying to do that
isn’t working? I’m reading your posts and they are not garbled. Just worded
unclearly. 
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Ernie Simpson
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:13 AM, RavenManiac email@hidden wrote:
How come I can’t get my lists to post properly on this forum? Every time I
try it I get a garbled mess. I’m sure this is probably a user error, so
please enlighten me:)
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This site uses a slightly extended form of Markdown to format plain text (e-mail) into semantic XHTML. If you want to make an unordered list, put an asterisk followed by a space at the beginning of each list item:
* One
* Two
* Three
becomes
Oh, and indenting each line with a tab (in mail) or four spaces (on the Web form) will create the code view you saw above the list.
There’s lot’s more you can do with Markdown, see John Gruber’s “dingus” page here:
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus
We use an extended form of Markdown that includes support for scrubbing e-mails out of messages (so you don’t get attacked by porn robots) and other goodies like “fenced” code examples (four tildes in a row on the line above and the line below a block of text will make that entire block into a
block, regardless of line-length and other issues).
We also support links to https://gist.github.com and http://pastie.org for posting longer or more complex code examples. A proper link to one of these will be auto-converted into an inline code block, with syntax highlighting and all the other niceties.
Simple rules for extended formatting: when in doubt, add extra vertical whitespace. If you’re making a list or a code example, be sure to add two returns before and after, so the formatter recognizes the context change. If you want to start a new paragraph, use two returns to separate it from the preceding text. Please don’t use H1 or H2 in the page, start any headers at H3 (three octothorps in a row before the first word of the headline, and alone on a line:
###Your Header Here
There’s lots more, just ask if you get stuck!
Walter
On May 23, 2012, at 1:13 AM, RavenManiac wrote:
How come I can’t get my lists to post properly on this forum? Every time I try it I get a garbled mess. I’m sure this is probably a user error, so please enlighten me:)
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So, how do I make a hard return—say for the ping reports I’ve been posting in other threads?
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Either fence off the list of pings:
this is a ping result
this is another ping result
(if you’re looking at this on the Web only, you enter ~~~~ four tildes in a row on the line before the multi-line code block and another four tildes on the line after)
Or, add a tab or four spaces to the beginning of each line. (Note, you cannot type a tab into the Web form for the list, so four spaces is it…)
Or add two spaces before your return (doesn’t really work well if you’re sending in your message by mail) at the end of each line that you want to force a line-break.
ProTip: If you have TextMate or BBEdit, copy your ping results there, then hold down the control key (your cursor will turn into a cross-hairs) and click and drag down the end or beginning of the list to get a multi-line selection, then type a tab at the beginning or two spaces at the end. The same input will be duplicated across all the lines at once.
Walter
On May 23, 2012, at 9:58 AM, RavenManiac wrote:
So, how do I make a hard return—say for the ping reports I’ve been posting in other threads?
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