Text Formatting Instructions

To make a bold centred heading, surround a complete line with "curly" brackets. For instance, entering:

{About the U3A}will produce this:

About the U3A

Both brackets must be present, and appear right at the beginning and end of the line.

To insert some tabulated information, enter a series of lines in which the table elements are separated by two commas. For instance. entering:

followed by an empty line, will produce this:

The table will be centred, and surrounded by light border.

To make a bulleted list, enter a series of lines with a single asterisk at the start. For instance, entering:

followed by an empty line, will produce:

• maintain muscle tone as much as possible,
• improve efficiency of heart and lung activity,
• improve balance and co-ordination.

You may also put any part of your text into bold or italic format. Bold text is surrounded by # (hash) symbols and italic text by _ (underline) symbols. For instance, entering:

will produce this:

Our annual subscription is 10 pounds a year, which covers all the groups you may wish to join.

You always need two of the formatting symbols to do the trick — single hashes or underlines appear as themselves.