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.
You type
You get
This is aligned all the way to the left. : This is indented slightly. :: This is indented more.
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 markup (:, *, or #) that were used in the preceding line. It will add a bullet point (•) to each line, like this:
You type
You get
:* First list item :* Second list item :** Sub-list item under second :* Third list item
