Marking up formatting
After working through this section, you should be able to:
Mark up superscripts
Mark up subscripts
Mark up bold
Mark up italics.
Marking up superscripts
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.
Example
will look like this in View mode:
Marking up subscripts
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.
Example
will look like this in View mode:
Marking up bold text
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.
Example
will look like this in View mode:
Marking up italics text
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.
Example
will look like this in View mode:
Exercise
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:
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