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How do I make what I type look like keys on a keyboard?
Sometimes, when a key is mentioned, the key is shown with a box surrounding it. I don't know how to do that.
Could someone please help?
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Was this question closed because a new user made an (easily correctable) Markdown formatting mistake and (correctable, ESL) grammar?
WSL2 duplicated terminal was Mod-closed as "Needs clarity or details", but even as originally written it was (again) quite understandable to me. It definitely had two problems:
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bold to emphasize main points? [duplicate]
I've been using bold to emphasize the main point I'm looking for, so people can see that and then read the details more. Is this a good idea? Example: How to not change title with winscp batch
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Should a short error message be formatted as inline code, bold or simply with double quotes?
Should a short error message be formatted as inline code, bold or simply with double quotes?
Example:
What is the difference between Error: blabla and Error: huhu?
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What is the ...
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Quote markdown for the whole answer
I left two comments under both of Pimp Juice's answers on this question asking to consider editing out the quote markdown because both answers are >90% quoted and it doesn't look sensible to me to ...
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Is it okay to use headers to summarize content?
About a month ago, I adopted an answering style from Thaddeus of Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange. The new format uses bullet points below a level 3 header with a brief summary of the ...
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Using `Fixed Width` in Questions and Answers
Recently someone edited one of my posts (OK, maybe not that recently), and mentioned (as the reason for the edit) that it is not appropriate to use Fixed Width to highlight text in posts.
I haven't ...
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Nicer <kbd> style
Apple.SE has a much nicer design for kbd tags:
It works much better for embedding it in other text (e.g. an explanation) as it contains a sans-serif font and a more subtle border. The style currently ...
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Convention for click on a button, then another button, etc
There is a standard way of representing a directory structure:
folder1/folder2/folder3/etc/file1
Is there a similar such convention we should use for indicating how to select an item in a series of ...
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