Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆
Formatting differences
- Discourse – this forum’s engine – uses Markdown to format its posts, and removes “unnecessary” whitespace.
- Terminal commands often produce output formatted so that they are better readable by the user, taking advantage of the monospaced font used.
- Programming code often rely on indentation to make it more readable.
Using preformatting in Markdown
Markdown includes a pattern to provide preformatting when necessary.
You only need to put the part to format between two lines of three backticks, like so:
```
This text will be preformatted.
```
Do note confuse the backtick ` character with the single quote ' or double quote ".
If you don’t find the backtick key on your keyboard, you can achieve the same result by clicking the Preformatted text </> button in the posting form, or with Ctrl+E.
The posting form has a preview feature, allowing you to check whether you correctly set preformatting before posting.
You can edit your own posts. Make use of this to correct the formatting when asked to.
Without preformatting:
$ inxi -m
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.64 GiB used: 6.51 GiB (41.6%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
With preformatting:
$ inxi -m
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.64 GiB used: 6.51 GiB (41.6%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
It’s a little confusing because the discobot tutorial still demos creating a poll.
Not a big badge fan. But what stuck in my craw was, one day it disappeared. Don’t know. Maybe it was a bug fix or adm change. A lot of things change on the forum without notice, so I figured it is what it is, "c’est la vie.