I need help on special effects

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The discussion revolves around achieving special effects in text on a forum using Markdown. ssityeghd is looking for effects similar to footnotes, and merefield suggests exploring Markdown options.

merefield provides a cheat sheet link, which ssityeghd uses, but still seeks additional effects like < big > < small > < ins > < del >. merefield recommends the BBCode Plugin for more effects.

ssityeghd tests Markdown options, but faces issues with certain effects, such as highlighting, which merefield explains isn’t supported. However, merefield shows that superscript and subscript do work using HTML versions <sup> and <sub>. Lilly also suggests using HTML versions for certain effects.

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I looked at almost 100 Customization > Plugin for something that is non-moderated and is for text, like footnotes but I couldn’t find anything!

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Could you please elaborate on the effect you are trying to achieve and where?

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On a forum, I want to have special effects in text, like footnotes.

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You don’t need any additional software.

Discourse supports Markdown, and you can do:

This is a footnote[^1], I hope you like it!

[^1]: This is the first footnote.

In a Post.

Which gives:

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I don’t want additional software. I already know footnotes. I want something similar to footnotes. Like commands you can do like < big > < small > < ins > < del >
similar commands like those.

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Most of these work:

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Like Robert said, you don’t need additional software.

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You can also install the BBCode Plugin for some additional effects.

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Is it okay if I test some of the Markdown Cheat Sheet options here to see what they look like?

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yes you can

but the mods may call time

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test here

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It’s blocked.
X^2^

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blocked from what? I can see it fine. You can’t load it?

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My administration blocks it.

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How does the highlight work?

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did you read any of the links Robert provided?

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Yes, they gave me this.
I need to highlight these ==very important words==.
It doesn’t highlight anything.

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Yeah, highlight is one of the few effects that isn’t supported.

Try BBCode and see if that suffices.

There’s also my Theme Component, but it’s “not standard”:

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Subscript and Superscript don’t work as well?

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Superscriptworks

Superscript<sup>works

Subscriptworks too

Subscript<sub>works too