Lighthouse uses Markdown for it's default text formatting for Tickets, Pages, Milestone Goals and Messages inside your Account and Projects. Previously, Lighthouse only used a custom textile-like formatting which worked well for very basic formatting needs, but did not allow for specific features that were in high demand, such as nested lists.

The original textile-like formatting is still part of Lighthouse, we've just plugged a full set of Markdown to accompany it.

Link to a ticket

You can link to a ticket by simply referring to the ticket number, so by simply typing #43 will render a link to ticket #43 inside your current project.

Italic and Bold text:

*italic* and _italic_ with both give you italic text

**bold** and __bold__ with both give you bold text

Links

Lighthouse automatically will render links, so entering http://entp.com will spit out http://entp.com.

To create inline links using Markdown, you would simply use the following:

[Lighthouse](http://lighthouseapp.com/ "Lighthouse") which will make a Lighthouse a link.

Code Blocks

By using @@@ wrappers around your code, you can create code blocks for posting code into your tickets.

@@@ javascript
var bar = function() {
// function code here
}
@@@

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 var bar = function() {
 // function code here
}

Inline images

![alt text](/path/img.jpg "Title")

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Headers

To create a header, you just surround the text with # marks. The number of # marks will render the size of the header, so...

# Header 1 #
## Header 2 ##
### Header 3 ###

will render...

Header 1

Header 2

Header 3

Ordered Lists

1. This is the first item
2. This is the second item
3. This is the third item

will render...

1. This is the first item
2. This is the second item
3. This is the third item

Unordered Lists

* This is the first item
* This is the second item
* This is the third item

will render...

• This is the first item
• This is the second item
• This is the third item

Nested Lists

* This is the first item
    * This is the second item
        * This is the third item
    * This is the fourth item
* This is the fifth item

will render...

• This is the first item
  • This is the second item
    • This is the third item
  • This is the fourth item

• This is the fifth item

  1. This is the first item
     • This is the second item
     • This is the third item
  2. This is the forth item

will render...

1. This is the first item
   • This is the second item
   • This is the third item
2. This is the forth item

Blockquotes

> Email-style angle brackets
> are used for blockquotes.

> > And, they can be nested.

> #### Headers in blockquotes
> 
> * You can quote a list.
> * Etc.

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Email-style angle brackets are used for blockquotes.

And, they can be nested.

Headers in blockquotes

• You can quote a list.
• Etc.

Code snippets

<code> spans are delimited by backticks.

You can include literal backticks like `this`.

Preformatted Code Blocks

This is a normal paragraph.

    This is a preformatted
    code block.

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This is a normal paragraph.

This is a preformatted
code block.

Horizontal Rules

---
* * *
- - - -

By using any of those three indicators you will render...

---

a horizontal rule...

Tags: formatting, tickets