During the week we added in formatting support to our message and comment areas within TeamworkPM. The new formatting option is called Markdown. It allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
Markdown is a way to format your text to add bold and italic text, headings and a few other things, without having to use HTML.
Since we have added this new formatting feature in we thought we better give you a way to see what your messages will look like before they are sent. So we have also included a new preview option into the message section to allow you to see how your formatting will look before it's published
Markdown: An introduction
Below is a brief introduction into Markdown and how to use it. You can also check out the Wikipedia page which goes into more detail as well as given examples of other tricks and tips for using it.
Bold and italic text:
To create italic text, surround one or a few words with stars:
This is how you create *italic text*.
To create bold text, surround one or a few words with double stars:
This is how you create **bold text**.
If you have to, you can make your text both bold and italic:
This is how you create ***bold and italic text***.
A bulleted list:
Create bulleted lists using stars:
* Item 1
* Item 2
* Item 3
The text above will look like this:
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
You can also use plus (+) or minus (-) instead of a star.
Creating links:
Combine brackets and parenthesis to create links in the text. It's quite simple:
Here's [a great website](http://www.teamworkpm.net). It'll really help you manage your projects.
The text above will look like this:
Here's a great website. It'll really help you manage your projects.
Quotes:
Add a greater-than sign (>) in front of anything you are quoting, and the text will be moved slightly towards the middle.
> " Time is the scarcest resource,
> and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."
> – *Peter Drucker*
The text above will look like this:
Note how the name, Peter Drucker, is surrounded by stars to make it render in italic text.
Headers:
Markdown has support for different levels of headers using the hash sign (#):
# This is the title
Here's some very good boiler plate text. I don't even know what a boiler is, even less a plate.
## This is the subheader
Subheaders are awesome. Even better than you think.
### This is the third level header.
And so on.
The text above will look like this:
This is the title
Here's some very good boiler plate text. I don't even know what a boiler is, even less a plate.
This is the subheader
Subheaders are awesome. Even better than you think.
This is the third level header.
And so on.