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@Phaedrus > I guess I didn’t pass

LOL, no it’s not supposed to show up - but the lack of a space between the Hashmark and the following text did not render it as a Heading 4 as you intended. E.g :

This is a Heading 4 line.

#### is NOT a Heading 4 line.

You are very welcome – I had thought that Markdown would really enhance your posts. Glad you took the tutorial and enjoyed it. It’s really excellent.

A tip for debugging Markdown enhanced posts – if I am using fancy formatting, a good way to make sure there’s no errors and everything is perfect is to :

  • Set the post Privacy to ‘Direct message’ and add an address you own somewhere.

  • Create the post with all the intended pizzazz. Post it.

  • Then look at in (either on the remote instance you addressed it to, or in your own profile, under Direct Messages).

  • Anything off, not right? Use Delete/REdraft to bring the post up for editing. Send it again.

  • Check it until it’s perfect. Then…

  • One last Delete/REdraft – this one to Change the Privacy level to Public (or other level if desired). Remove the DM’s attribution address from the message.

  • Hit send and enjoy a perfectly formatted post without ever showing the intermediate staps in public view.

I use this method and it works excellent. Good luck!

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