When I select text and then hit the preformatted text button in my company’s demo Discourse forum (hosted by Discourse), the default formatting is three apostrophes before and three after the text. However, when I hit the preformatted text button in meta.discourse.org , there is only one apostrophe b…

The code block is formatted using the default code lang Site Setting. On meta, we have that set to text. You can override that per block by specifying the language after the initial fence.

With preformatted text, why are some letters red and numbers blue?

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Gavin_Hudson (Gavin Hudson) November 9, 2023, 5:02pm 3

Thank you again, @supermathie ! Now that I know this, I will explore more options in Select the programming language used in code blocks.

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With preformatted text, why are some letters red and numbers blue?

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