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I think this official page covers all of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

• lsllc 6y ago
  I'm don't think that covers everything! I have used that page when commenting, but I'm sure I've seen formatting not described there.
  • snazz 6y ago
    Really? What kind of special formatting have you seen? I think that italics, code blocks, paragraph breaks, and https://lin.ks https://lin.ks are the only formatting options available. I certainly haven't seen anything else.
    • chaorace 6y ago
      I've seen comment citations in the past. I still can't figure out how to get those to work.
      • snazz 6y ago
        > I've seen comment citations in the past. I still can't figure out how to get those to work. Like this? It's just italics and a > symbol.
        • chaorace 6y ago
          Nope, like wiki style citations to external links. Maybe it's just some superscript trickery, but I've seen it from multiple people, so I assumed it's a hidden feature.
          • snazz 6y ago
            I think it's Unicode superscript characters¹. Does that look like what you've seen? 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_superscripts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_supersc...