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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 (punctuation)|colon]] (<ttkbd>:</ttkbd>) at the beginning of a line. The more colons you use, the further indented the text will be.

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To create a list, add an [[Asterisk (punctuation)|asterisk]] (<ttkbd>*</ttkbd>) at the start of each point. This goes after any markup (<ttkbd>:</ttkbd>, <ttkbd>*</ttkbd>, or <ttkbd>#</ttkbd>) that were used in the preceding line. It will add a ''bullet point'' (•) to each line, like this:

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