Sometimes you'd like to apply styles to your text — to italicize a book title, for example. You can do this with simple formatting codes that are similar to the double brackets of a link. Here is what's available to you:
Formatting | Source Code | Appears As |
---|---|---|
Italics | //text// |
text |
Boldface | ''text'' |
text |
Underline | __text__ |
text |
Subscript | H~~2~~O |
H2O |
Superscript | meters/second^^2^^ |
meters/second2 |
Monospace | {{{text}}} |
text |
Bulleted list | * one |
|
Numbered list | # one |
|
Horizontal line | ---- |
Lists in particular are useful for setting off choices at the end of a passage. Although it feels natural to leave an empty line between a paragraph and a list, this creates extra whitespace that looks a little strange. Here's what it should look like:
It's a dark and stormy night aboard the Orient Express. You can't sleep; something about the motion of the train disturbed you subtly. So instead you have elected to spend the night in the dining car, sipping coffee and perusing [[the newspaper|The London Times]].
You hear the door to the car open behind you.
* [[Look up]]
* [[Continue reading]]
If there's a particular kind of formatting that you'd like to use that isn't supported natively by Twee, you
can put HTML source code directly into your story's text by surrounding it with <html>
and
</html>
. This passage, for example, blinks:
The bomb's timer now reads: <html><blink>5:00</blink></html>. You sure hope that's five hours, not five minutes.