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'''Indenting ''' can help improve the layoutreadability of a discussion considerably, making it much easier to read.understand Awhere standardone practiceeditor's iscomments toend and another's begin. Always indent your reply one level deeper than the person you are replying to. The simplestbest way ofto indentingindent is to place a [[Colon (punctuation)|colon]] (< ttkbd>:</ ttkbd>) at the beginning of a line. The more colons you putuse, the furthermore indented the text will be. ▼
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▲Indenting can improve the layout of a discussion considerably, making it much easier to read. A standard practice is to indent your reply one level deeper than the person you are replying to. The simplest way of indenting is to place a [[Colon (punctuation)|colon]] (<tt>:</tt>) at the beginning of a line. The more colons you put, the further indented the text will be.
[[Image:Indenting_markup.png|thumb|268px|right|An example of indented discussion.]]
To create a list, add an [[Asterisk (punctuation)|asterisk]] (<kbd>*</kbd>) at the start of each point. This goes after any markup (<kbd>:</kbd>, <kbd>*</kbd>, or <kbd>#</kbd>) that was used in the preceding line. It will add a ''bullet point'' (•) to each line, like this:
For example:
: <tt>This is aligned all the way to the left.</tt>
: <tt><nowiki>: </nowiki>This is indented slightly.</tt>
: <tt><nowiki>:: </nowiki>This is indented more.</tt>
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Using an [[Asterisk (punctuation)|asterisk]] (<tt>*</tt>) in place of the last colon (<tt>:</tt>) creates a ''bullet point'' for that line, as is commonly used for displaying lists.
[[Image:Bullet_markup.png|thumb|253px|right|An example of a bullet list in a discussion.]]
For example:
: <tt><nowiki>::* </nowiki>First list item</tt>
: <tt><nowiki>::* </nowiki>Second list item</tt>
: <tt><nowiki>:::* </nowiki>Sub-list item under second</tt>
: <tt><nowiki>::* </nowiki>Third list item</tt>
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