You can personalise the entry details of your event using Markdown - a way to style text and add links using simple codes.
This is a great way to make your Public page more varied and interesting for your bookers when they visit it and read the information provided by you. Using Markdown allows you to create paragraphs, line breaks, bullet and number lists, bold and italic fonts, and enlarge the text.
This article covers:
How to format your text
Paragraph
To start a new paragraph, press enter on your keyboard to leave a blank line between paragraphs.
Line breaks
To put a line break within a paragraph, leave two blank spaces at the end of the line.
Enlarging text
Putting a hash (#) at the start of a line makes a large title. The size of the text depends on how many hashes you add before it.
For example:
# Heading 1 - Biggest
## Heading 2 - Medium
### Heading 3 - Small
How it appears on your public page:
Bullet or number listing
Bullet point listing
- Bullet list item with a dash (-) or asterisk (*)
- Bullet list item two
For example:
Number listing
1. Numbered list with a number and a point
2. Numbered list item two
For example:
Make the text italic or bold
You can also make your text appear in bold or italic, or both,
Italic
Putting one underscore (_) or one asterisk (*) before and after the word/sentence you'd like (with no spaces in-between) will make it appear italic.
For example:
_italics_ or *italics*
In this example, you can see the underscore has been used at the beginning and end of the sentence:
This then appears like the below on the public page:
Bold
Putting two underscores (__) or two asterisks (**) before and after the word/sentence you'd like (with no spaces in-between) will make it appear bold.
For example:
__bold__ or **bold**
In this example, you can see the two asterisks used at the beginning and end of the sentence:
This then appears like the below on the public page:
Both
If you'd like your text to be both bold and italic, there are a couple of varieties you can choose from:
Add an asterisk (*) and two underscores (__) before and after the word/sentence.
Add an underscore (_) and two asterisks (**) before and after the word/sentence.
To note: it doesn't matter in what order you enter the characters, as long as they are grouped in the correct format.
If you want to use an asterisk or underscore without it affecting the text, add a backslash before it. For example:
\*your text
\_your text
Adding a backslash will remove the markdown and the characters will appear as normal (unformatted).
How to insert a link
To add a link, use the format: [Title] (link)
For example:
[Bookwhen] (http://bookwhen.com)
It is shown as:
PLEASE NOTE: THE SPACE BETWEEN THE TITLE AND LINK BRACKETS '] (' MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE EXAMPLE TEXT ABOVE
More details
Github has written an excellent guide here: Mastering Markdown
And the complete syntax guide can be found here: Markdown Syntax