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Indenting can help improve the layout of a discussion, making it much easier to read. You should always indent your reply one level deeper than the person you are replying to. The best way to indent is to place a colon (:) at the beginning of a line. The more colons you use, the further indented the text will be.
The example below shows some text as it would appear when making a comment, while the box on the right shows how it would look once the comments are saved to the article:
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This is aligned all the way to the left.
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- This is aligned all the way to the left.
- : This is indented slightly.
- :: This is indented more.
To create a list, add an asterisk (*) at the start of each point. This goes after any colons (:) that are used. It will add a bullet point (•) to each line, like this:
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- :* First list item
- :* Second list item
- ::* Sub-list item under second
- :* Third list item
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