an article that sort of changed my life

[emcguffie]

8. About the square brackets --

That's how you use html on DU. Put brackets with a b, like this (b) this would be bold (/b) and this wouldn't be bold -- if those were square brackets. I'll do that here:

this is bold and this is not bold

There's something called headings, but I can't remember how to do that. And then there is the quotation box, which is, if I can remember, (div class="excerpt&quot text here (/div)

That would look like this:

and you can do text color and italics and some other stuff I don't remember. Like font, size and on and on. But this text right here is in an indented shaded box, meant to be used for long quotations.