September 09, 2003
Textile formatting

Here are some examples of formatting text using the Textile text formatting options. Try all of them out in an entry into your own blog:

This is a 2nd level header.

rather big innit?

This header is a more reasonble size.

This should be indented as a block.

a paragraph

  1. numbered list
  2. 2nd item
  • bullet list
  • second item

citation inserted text
You don’t have to use HTML to format your blog entries. Just select the pull-down Textile in the
Text Formatting box to choose textile. Click on the (?) to show all the Textile
formatting options.

URL links are easy too:

Earlham’s web site and my blog site .

Images can be easily displayed too:

Marcel Garvey strikes again

(Note : when you view this in Netscape you’ll see pop-up titles appear on the links).

What the textile codes look like:

h2. This is a 2nd level header.

p. rather big innit?

h4. This header is a more reasonble size.

bq. This should be indented as a block.

p. a paragraph

# numbered list
# 2^nd^ item

* bullet list
* second item

??citation?? +inserted text+ 
You don't have to use HTML(Hypertext Markup Language) to format your blog entries.  Just select the pull-down Textile in the
 Text Formatting box to choose textile. Click on the (?) to show all the Textile formatting options.

URL(Uniform Resource Locator) links are easy too:

"Earlham's web site":http://www.earlham.edu/  and my "blog site (All you ever wanted to know about blogs but were afraid to ask)":http://www.earlham.edu/~markp/blogging/blog_about.htm.

Images can be easily displayed too:

!http://www.earlham.edu/~markp/m110_blog/_39057203_garvey345.jpg (Marcel Garvey strikes again)!

(Note : when you view this in Netscape you'll see pop-up titles appear on the links).
Posted by markp at 09:43 PM