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Formatting event text

How to format event descriptions and public page text, including adding photos and embedding videos.

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You can personalise the entry details of your event using "markdown", which is 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 customers when they visit it.

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What is markdown?

Markdown is a simple way to format plain text. It uses a simple and readable syntax, often consisting of plain text characters like asterisks, hashtags, and square brackets, to create headings, line breaks, paragraphs, bullet and number lists, links, and other text styles (i.e. bold and italic).


Paragraph

To start a new paragraph, press enter on your keyboard to leave a blank line between paragraphs.

Information tab of the entry settings with arrow pointing at a highlighted blank space between paragraphs.

Line breaks

To put a line break within a paragraph, leave two blank spaces at the end of the line.

Information tab of the entry settings with arrow pointing at a space created at the end of a sentence

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

Information tab of the entry settings with arrow pointing at with a hashed text example highlighted

How it appears on your public page:

Public page screen with arrow pointing at the event description, highlighting text that appears larger due to hashed markdown

Bullet or number listing

Bullet point listing

- Bullet list item with a dash (-) or asterisk (*)
- Bullet list item two

Number listing

1. Numbered list with a number and a point
2. Numbered list item two

Bullet point listing example:

Information tab of the entry settings with description box highlighted, showing a bulleted list

Number listing example:

Information tab of the entry settings with description box highlighted, showing a numbered bulleted list

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*

For example:

Information tab of the entry settings with description box highlighted, showing text that uses italic markdown

Public page example:

Public page screen with arrow pointing at the italic text within the event details

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**

For example:

Information tab of the entry settings with description box highlighted, showing text that uses bold markdown

Public page example:

Public page with arrow pointing at bolded text within the event details

Both

If you'd like your text to be both bold and italic, there are a couple of varieties you can choose from:

  1. Add an asterisk (*) and two underscores (__) before and after the word/sentence.

    For example:

    Information tab of the entry settings with description box highlighted, showing text that uses both bold and italic markdown

    Public page example:

    Public page with arrow pointing at the bolded and italic text within the event details

  2. Add an underscore (_) and two asterisks (**) before and after the word/sentence.

    For example:

     Information tab of the entry settings with description

    Public page example:

    Public page with arrow pointing at the bolded and italic text within the event details

πŸ’‘ 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 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)

πŸ’‘ You'll need to ensure you remove the space between the ] and ( brackets.
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For example:

[Bookwhen] (http://bookwhen.com)

Public page general information section with a hyperlinked link code highlighted

The example link ([Bookwhen] (http://bookwhen.com) ) will show as: Bookwhen

Public page with arrow pointing at the Bookwhen hyperlink

❗️The space between the title and link brackets '] (' must be removed from the link text.


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