Just to see how this works.
Here is a sandbox test.
Now I edited the sandbox and added this text. nifty.
a new page:sandcastle
Here some text formatting. To format some text, surround the text with the indicated symbols.
one asterisk: italics
two asterisks: bold
underscore: underscore
single quote: monotype
thats it.
A bullet list begins with asterisk, dash or zero and then a space.
- first item
- subitem 1
- subitem 2
- second item
- third item
thats it.
How to avoid formatting by html, end previous line with two colons, start a new paragraph, (two new lines) and indent the line in question like this:
<BR>
A heading
that was a heading. here is some indented text.
some more indented text.
and still more indented text
subheading?
additional indentation
yet more at the same level of indent.
Next major heading
again an indent.
more of the same level