Marking up formatting
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After working through this section, you should be able to:
Mark up superscripts
Mark up subscripts
Mark up bold
Mark up italics.
The pattern for marking up superscripts is as follows:
Before the superscripted text, the opening {{^
The text to be superscripted
The closing }}.
Spaces and any punctuation that are included between {{^ and }} will also be superscripted.
will look like this in View mode:
The pattern for marking up subscripts is as follows:
Before the subscripted text, the opening {{_
The text to be subscripted
The closing }}.
Spaces and any punctuation that are included between {{_ and }} will also be subscripted.
will look like this in View mode:
The pattern for marking up bold text is as follows:
Before the bold text, the opening **
The text to be bolded
The closing **.
Spaces and any punctuation that are included between the **s will also be bolded.
will look like this in View mode:
The pattern for marking up italics text is as follows:
Before the italics text, the opening //
The text to be italicised
The closing //.
Spaces and any punctuation that are included between the //s will also be italicised.
will look like this in View mode:
Copy the text below and paste it into a practise document, then see the instructions that follow.
Mark up the th in the 'the 12th of July' as superscripted.
Mark up the 2 in 'CO2' as subscripted.
Mark up the word bold as bold.
Mark up the word italics as italics.
When you're done, it should look like this in View mode:
and like this in Edit mode:
