Text editing uses a fairly simple text formatting system known as Markdown. Markdown was invented to allow you to easily apply simple formatting options to your text without the need to know the HTML language. Here are some of the essential options that Markdown provides:

- Italic text: put single asterisks around your text to produce italic text:

      *this is italic*

- Bold text: double asterisks around your text will generate a bold passage:

      **I'm a bold snippet**

- Lists are produced by starting each line with an asterisk or a number. Asterisks will produce bullet points, while numbers will generate a numbered list:

      * This is a list
      * Which has bullet items

      1. While this list
      2. Is numbered

  Take care to put a single space in front of each list item. If you want to create several levels of lists, increase the number of spaces before each level of the list.
- Hyperlinks: to link to a page, use the following formatting:

      [Link title](http://your.link.address.com)

- Images can be included in a very similar fashion. The description will not be displayed in most cases. However it is an important alternative representation for example for blind users:

      ![Image description](http://image.host.com/picture.png)

- Headings: structure your text into sections by using headings. They are produced by underlining your text with equals signs or dashes:

      This is a large heading
      =======================

      This is a smaller heading
      -------------------------

- Blockquotes: To include a quote you can use a formatting you might now from email:

      >  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisici elit,
      >  sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

- Ellipsis: To hide some of your text behind a "show more" button you can use the following formatting
  [show more]
  which is especially usefull for long texts [show less]
  :

      Lorem ipsum (((dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisici elit,
      sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.)))

For a more complete reference of the Markdown options, check out the full documentation.