Questions tagged [formatting]
Formatting is the process by which content is stylized and laid out for improved user experience.
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Formatting Sandbox – Please test stuff here
What the title says.
Use this for testing stuff and gosh I can't believe we didn't have this till now.
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Should backticks be used or quotation marks while formatting?
I had a suggested edit on one of my posts, that suggested changing the back-tick formatting to simple quotes. I am unsure of what to do in this case. So I figured it would be wise to ask this here.
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Memorandum of Formatting
Inspired by this question, I would like to find a comprehensive list of formatting elements recommended for use when asking and answering here.
In fact, I would like to have two lists:
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Attribution: the good and the bad
Recently, there have been a series of posts when a user's comment has been transformed into an answer or long excerpts have been quoted from various English websites.
First of all, just to be clear, ...
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Suggestion: Markup for an incorrect example
Can we have markup for example sentences, as distinct from actual quotes? And markup to distinguish a correct example from an incorrect one? (Strikethrough is a poor substitute.)
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What is a preformatted text for?
I cannot understand what those brackets above for. When I click it, "enter preformatted text" comes up. What is it for?
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