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
On the 15{{^th}} of July 2020 …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
The amount of CO{{_2}} in the atmosphere …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
**This whole sentence is bold.**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
Just //this text// is in italics.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.
PARA 12.
On the 12th of July 2020, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere was bold.
Later that same month is was italics.
Mark up the
thin the 'the 12th of July' as superscripted.Mark up the
2in 'CO2' as subscripted.Mark up the word
boldas bold.Mark up the word
italicsas italics.
When you're done, it should look like this in View mode:
and like this in Edit mode:
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