Add some style to your texts

Sep­a­rate your para­graphs with a blank line
A good text must have a clear de­sign

Put words in bold be­tween *two stars*
Those in ital­ic be­tween _t­wo un­der­scores_
The ones will shine like plan­et Mars
The oth­ers will be clos­er to the dance floors

Head­ings

They be­gin their line with three stars,
Sep­a­rat­ed from the rest with blank lines:

*** Head­ing

Breaks are al­so com­posed of three stars
But alone, as if they were emp­ty head­lines:

***

They dis­play in the mid­dle of the page
Per­fect for a pause or a sub­ject change

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> For quo­ta­tions, it’s the same as in e-mails
> Where each para­graph be­gins with a chevron,

It’s the “greater-than” sym­bol – for math­e­mat­i­cal de­tails
Use­ful for show­ing the sources of your in­spi­ra­tion
— Scri­f­fon

Links

Links be­gin with http://
They are re­placed if a word is leant against:http://
Sep­a­rat­ed with a colon on­ly
And with quo­ta­tion marks for a longer "piece of text":http://

It will be dis­played as http://ex­am­ple.com
Or, un­der­lined, the text we leant against
Us­ing the fore­go­ing sep­a­ra­tor – the colon
And with­out quotes, here is our piece of text

The tiny au­to­mat­ic things

Two small dash­es -​-
give a medi­um dash –
Three small dash­es -​-​-
give a long dash —

You can use them:
— to make lists,
— enu­mer­a­tions,
— di­alogs,
— or in a sen­tence – as sep­a­ra­tions.

Ver­ti­cal apos­tro­phes, not very beau­ti­ful: '
Are re­placed with ty­po­graph­ic ones, curly and pret­ty: ’

And "straight quo­ta­tion marks", a bit aw­ful,
By “curved quotes”, a bet­ter ty­pog­ra­phy

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For more de­tails about au­to­mat­ic for­mat­ting, read “Text for­mat­ting on Scri­f­fon”.