Veronica Berglyd Olsen
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96 lines
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.. _docs_usage_basics:
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Basic Formatting
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.. _Markdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
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The basic text formatting syntax of novelWriter is based on Markdown_. It is only a subset of the
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Markdown syntax though. Lists, images, and links are not supported.
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That said, URLs in the text should automatically be highlighted and become clickable. However, only
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URLs starting with "http" or "https" are recognised. In the editor, you must hold down the
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:kbd:`Ctrl` key when clicking a URL to follow it.
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.. _docs_usage_basics_paragraphs:
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Text Paragraphs
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===============
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A text paragraph is indicated by a blank line. That is, you need two line breaks to separate two
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fragments of text into two paragraphs. Single line breaks are treated as line breaks within a
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paragraph.
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It is important that you actually follow this rule. You should not, for instance, mimic indented
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paragraphs manually in the editor. This, and a lot of other formatting options that can be
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applied to text paragraphs in the :ref:`Manuscript Tool <docs_ui_manuscript>` depend on paragraphs
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being separated by blank lines.
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:bdg-success:`Correct`
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.. code-block:: md
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### Scene
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This is a text paragraph.
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This is another text paragraph.
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:bdg-danger:`Incorrect`
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.. code-block:: md
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### Scene
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This is a text paragraph.
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This is meant to be another text paragraph.
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If you do as shown in the "Incorrect" example, novelWriter will understand this as a single
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paragraph with two lines.
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.. _docs_usage_basics_emphasis:
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Text Emphasis with Markdown
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===========================
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A minimal set of Markdown text emphasis styles are supported for text paragraphs.
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``_text_``
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The text is rendered as emphasised text (italicised).
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``**text**``
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The text is rendered as strongly emphasised text (bold).
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``~~text~~``
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Strike through text.
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In Markdown guides it is often recommended to differentiate between strong emphasis and emphasis
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by using ``**`` for strong and ``_`` for emphasis, although Markdown generally also supports ``__``
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for strong and ``*`` for emphasis. However, since the differentiation makes the highlighting and
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conversion significantly simpler and faster, in novelWriter this is a rule, not just a
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recommendation.
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In addition, the following rules apply:
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1. The emphasis and strike through formatting tags do not allow spaces between the words and the
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tag itself. That is, ``**text**`` is valid, ``**text **`` is not.
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2. More generally, the delimiters must be on the outer edge of words. That is, ``some **text in
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bold** here`` is valid, ``some** text in bold** here`` is not.
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3. If using both ``**`` and ``_`` to wrap the same text, the underscore must be the **inner**
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wrapper. This is due to the underscore also being a valid word character, so if they are on the
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outside, they violate rule 2.
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4. Text emphasis does not span past line breaks. If you need to add emphasis to multiple lines or
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paragraphs, you must apply it to each of them in turn.
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5. Text emphasis can only be used in comments and paragraphs. Headings and meta data tags don't
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allow for formatting, and any formatting markup will be displayed as-is.
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.. tip::
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novelWriter supports standard escape syntax for the emphasis markup characters in case the
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editor misunderstands your intended usage of them. That is, ``\*``, ``\_`` and ``\~`` will
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generate a plain ``*``, ``_`` and ``~``, respectively, without interpreting them as part of the
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markup.
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