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Step 7Miscellaneous Formatting

Miscellaneous Formatting

6.1 Horizontal Rule (HR)

Four or more dashes will be replaced by a horizontal line (<HR> in HTML markup)
  -  --  ---  ----  ----------
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6.2 Bullets

Space + asterisk + space = funny line leader and gray text. (Thanks to Zachninme for pointing out that the trailing space is also required.)
 * <-- that thing
  • <-- that thing
  • * works, too (no leading space) *doesn't work (no trailing space) * Other ''formatting'' codes '''are''' allowed
  • works, too (no leading space)
*doesn't work (no trailing space)
  • Other formatting codes are allowed

6.3 Inserting Literal Brackets

Use numeric entities:
  [ Bracketed text ]
[Bracketed text]
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