Markdown is how all user-inputted content is formatted on litphoria. It is lightweight syntax based on how e-mails have been written for ages, and even how some people marked-up roleplays in chat rooms after that.

Here's a pocket guide to using markdown. If you scroll down, there's also a limited bbcode to markdown converter, if you're coming from forums or other sites which utilize that.

• Bold: **text** -> text
• Italic: *text* -> text
• Bold Italic: ***text*** -> text
• Monospace: `text` -> text
• Links: [Here's google!](https://www.google.come) -> Here's google!
• Strikethrough: <s>text</s> -> text
• Superscript: <sup>text</sup> -> ^text
• Subscript: <sub>text</sub> -> _text
• HorizontalRule * * * ->

  ---

• Lists:

  * thing 1
  * thing 2
  * thing 3
  * thing 4

  Notice the space between the asterisk and thing 1. No space between text and thing 1 would result in italics. A list must be preceeded by a blank line if text comes before it.
  • thing 1
  • thing 2
  • thing 3
  • thing 4
• Headers: # Huge, ## Large, ### Medium-Large, #### Medium-Small, ##### Small, ###### Tiny

  Huge

  Large

  Medium-Large

  Medium-Small

  Small

  Tiny

• Quoting: >text ->

  text

• Spacing: With markdown (and html in general), a single line break will not be preserved. If you want a line break, you can either use two (so that there is a blank line between your text), or follow your line break with two spaces.
• Escaping: Any markdown syntax can be arbitrarily escaped by a backslash: \. Thus, \>:( will result in >:(, not a quote box with just :( in it.