Adding text formatting: using “textile”

Textile is a simple and easy shorthand that allows you to add formatting to your text:

Type this in textile… …to get this formatting
*Bold phrase* Bold phrase
_Italic phrase_ Italic phrase
empty line* Bulleted list
* Bulleted list
empty line
  • Bulleted list
  • Bulleted list
empty line# Numbered list
# Numbered list
empty line
  1. Numbered list
  2. Numbered list
> Indented block
Indented block
empty lineh3. Subhead
empty line

Subhead
empty lineh4. Sub-subhead
empty line

Sub-subhead
"Google":http://www.google.com Google
!http://www.uni-terra.org/uni-terra_logo.gif!

These are the most common uses but you can do much more with Textile — for further information see the official textile reference manual.