Links and Formatting

Links and formatting

Welcome to the tutorial of Links and formatting. In this article, you will learn how to make those fancy stuff you see the others use to format their articles nicely.

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Remainder

Did you learn division? If you do, you'll quickly realize that not every pair of numbers divides nicely. Most likely, there will be a remainder left when dividing.

For example :

What is the remainder when 2012 is divided by 5?

Answer : 2

and

Remainder

Did you learn division? If you do, you'll quickly realize that not every pair of numbers divides nicely. Most likely, there will be a remainder left when dividing. For example :

What is the remainder when $2012$ is divided by $5$ ?

Which option is better?

The second one clearly looks better.

How do you make such fancy stuff. Not to worry, I'll show you how to make things like that below :

Bold and italics

Bold : ** ** without the spaces

Looks like this.

Italic : * * without the spaces

Looks like this.

Bold and italic : *** *** without the spaces

Looks like this.

Header

There are two types of header :

Big Header

Type what you want as the header (you need a space before the title if your first word is latexed). Then, put three (or more, it doesn't matter) =s in the next line.

For example :

Big Header

===

Small Header

This is similar to big header, except you need to place -s.

For example :

Small Header

For more details, you can view the code of this article by clicking edit.

Links

How do you insert links, like this?

It is really simple. The format is like this : [description or whatever text you want here] (link URL). (without the space)

Again, for details, view the code of this article.

Latex

I'll not go into detail the latex code of everything. If you really need the code, see here. Note that you need to place your code between two dollar signs. For example, you can see the code of the following equation (by clicking edit) to see how it works :

$\frac{3}{4} + x^{\sqrt[5]{y_i}} = y^{e\pi} - a_{\sqrt{i}}$ .

Questions

Multiple-choice questions

How do you make the nice MCQ you see here? For instance :

Click on $3$ to proceed.

If you want to make a multiple-choice question (with only one answer), then you can do it below :

Step 1 : Type < ask >. (without the spaces)

Step 2 : Type # if the choice is wrong and ## if the choice is correct.

Step 3 : (Optional) Type @ below the choice if you want a comment to show up when someone clicks on it.

Step 4 : Type < /ask >. (without the spaces)

Again, for further details, view the raw code of this post.

Checklist

What if you want more than one answer. For instance :

Which of the following values is equal to $2$ ?

Instead of ## and #, you use #+ for answers that should be checked and #- for answers that should not be checked. The rest are the same. Note that the boxes are square instead of circle.

Fill in the blanks

For example :

What is the value of $2 \times 3$ ?

Note that the answer must be exact. Any slight difference and it will not be accepted.

How do you make such a thing? It's the same with MCQs except you don't use ## or #. You use instead. For example, the raw code of the fill-in-the-blank above is

< ask >

What is the value of $2 \times 3$ ?

6

< /ask >

(Remove some deliberately included space to make it work)

Pause

Sometimes, you might just want the reader to stop and ponder about something before continue.

Certainly, you can do it like this :

However, there's a faster and nicer way to do this, like the button below :

The code is < pause > (without the spaces). See all those continue buttons you pressed? Those are the work of < pause >.

Recap

Which of the following do you use to make headers?

Which of the following do you use to bold text? (remove unneccesary spaces)

What do you place at the beginning and the end of a question (like this)? (without the unneccesary spaces)

Finally, which of the following shows the continue button? (remove unneccesary spaces)

Happy posting!

Links and Formatting

Large header

Small header