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I Demand Equality! (A Formatting Question)

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Thexder

I went over the formatting FAQ... I do not understand it. Why this code makes things go "heading style" (see below)?

first
=
second

first

second
?

EDIT: Answered by playdis below: the markup language understand a single "=" as a string of "========", which translates as "H1 heading for previous line". Awkward, I say. :)

8 years ago*

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orono

What are you trying to do?

8 years ago
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Thexder

I actually tried to write something like "line, =, 2nd line", like, here. But I could only do it declaring the "=" to be inline code, otherwise the formatting would go haywire and the "=" disappeared...

I demand equality! :D

P.S.: Oh, sorry, giveaway is region restricted. Anyway, what I want is an "=" sign by itself on its own line without messing up the rest of the message. What does "=" stand for by itself?

8 years ago
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orono

I can't enter to that link to see the example because is region restricted. Tell me where it is here

8 years ago
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Thexder

That is the thing, it is not there at all -- an "=" sign, by itself, changes the previous line to some sort of heading style...

8 years ago
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orono

Let me try with code formatting:

First
=
Second

It is done this way:

First
`=`
Second
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Thexder

Yeah, I did that, thanks! I was curious about the behaviour of = without the '', but I did not know that a string of ====== is used to "underline" a H1 style line. Thank you!

8 years ago
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orono

No problem :)

8 years ago
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PlayDis

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
if you scroll down to headers, it mentions that the "=" sign is like underlining the word above it as H1.

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Thexder

OOOooohhh.... Living and learning. Thanks!

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