Text enclosed in special characters is emphasized.


Italic

An asterisk or underscore.

*Text* or _Text_

Bold

Two asterisks or underscores.

**Text** or __Text__

Bold-italic

Three asterisks or underscores.

***Text*** or ___Text___

The use of asterisks is mandatory when you want to emphasize part of a word. e.g. monday must be written as mon**day**.

Code span

One or more backticks. If the code itself contains backticks, wrap it with more backticks.

`Text`

Strike through

Two tildes.

~~Text~~

Highlight

Two equal signs.

==Text==


Subscript123

One tilde.

Text~sub~

Superscript123

One caret.

Text^sup^

Not all fonts support subscript/superscript, and some may have only partial support.

Font Size

"em" followed by the size factor and a space, enclosed in square brackets. 1 em is equal to the default font size.

[em1.5 Text]

Font Color

A hash followed by the color in RGB or ARGB and a space, enclosed in square brackets.

[#FF0000 Text]

Background

An equal sign followed by the color in RGB or ARGB and a space, enclosed in square brackets.

[=55FF0000 Text]

Underline

Four underscores or an underscore followed by a space, enclosed in square brackets.

____Underline____ or [_ Underline]