One of the very confusing things of Discourse seems that - in theory - it accepts Markdown, bbCode and HTML formatting while - in practice - it accepts some Markdown, some bbCode and some HTML, picking up - here and there - what it sees fit and ignoring the rest.
I haven’t found a good official resource to use as reference, but here is a nice post on another board that covers most of the possible formatting options:
https://forum.playboundless.com/t/forum-discourse-text-formatting/59132
What kind of content do you plan to post, if those are not enough?
I think jaclaz did not request more formatting options. He was just confused and finally found a good reference he wanted to share with us.
There are formating buttons in the compose box, when you use them, the formating is applied and you see the syntax.
I will do post such things …
What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be
The terrors of the earth board !
There are only a handful of few [1] text formatting buttons, a small subset of those available in any other board, and a tiny subset of the available formatting options.
[1] Namely I can see:
No trace whatsoever of:
Let alone colours or font choice.
OFCOURSEONEISFREETOWRITEUSINGWHICHEVERSTYLEHE/SHELIKESANDALSOIGNORESPACESPUNCTUATIONANDINDENTATIONSBUTITCOMESOUTASSOMEWHATLESSREADABLE
And only as a side note, most people with a non-US or non-UK keyboard will have a good time writing ```` (Alt+96 in Windows).
just select text and click the code button, why is that pain needed? there is even a keyboard shortcut to turn text into code (hover on the button to see it, on macOS it is cmd+E)
jaclaz, most WYSIWYG editors have GUI buttons for a fraction of the Markdown syntax. So it is here. I do not bother. The most important ones are available in the editor button bar.
Who cares for strike-thru editor button - just learn markdown. This is a technical forum and Markdown is everywhere in tech world.
please don’t use other formating here, apart from the buttons.
nobody wants to see colored and large text and other crap like that.
rextended and anav love colored text 
I understand @anav when help on config add/remove and is more clear that all plaintext, but why you (un@)cite me?
I use my personalized keyboard filter for Italian that allow me to write all 256 (really 251 because 5 codes are not used) Windows-1252 characters without use “ALT+”
NUL SOH STX ETX EOT ENQ ACK BEL BS HT LF VT FF CR SO SI
DLE DC1 DC2 DC3 DC4 NAK SYN ETB CAN EM SUB ESC FS GS RS US
SP ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
@ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ DEL
€ x81 ‚ ƒ „ … † ‡ ˆ ‰ Š ‹ Œ x8D Ž x8F
x90 ‘ ’ “ ” • – — ˜ ™ š › œ x9D ž Ÿ
NBSP¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ SHY ® ¯
° ± ² ³ ´ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿
À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï
Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö × Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß
à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï
ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ
and all with easy position to remember:
bottom left: normal,
upper left: shift
bottom right: altgr
upper right: altgr+shift
you often write in large text IIRC
Yes, not colored 
Great, thanks for the pointer!
By the way, speaking of the formatting – who’s the mastermind behind the design of this forum? Because apparently, basic color coding and explanations of categories were just… missing?
Honestly, the whole look feels more like a freshly spawned Discord server by a well-meaning hobby group than anything remotely professional.
Somewhat pathetic, in a sad way really.
Meet Jeff Atwood:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Atwood
Is there some sort of feedback contact on his website where can I write my sincere disgust with this piece of crap software ?
I believe that I have moral obligation to do that.
To be fair to the software, it is not actually that bad, of course it has some quirks, and the underlying phylosophy is largely utterly wrong, but the software in itself works.
BUT it is essentialy a white canvas where everyone can draw whatever he/she wants, the defaults are “terrible”, but the real issue is that in all these years noone with a minimum of good taste, knowledge of colour spaces and contrast put together something at the same time working and pleasing to the eye (or if someone did it was never shared or I couldn’t find it).
With the Solarized theme:
AND the CSS mods by Teslasystems:
it is actually bearable, still far from perfect, but not bad at all.
I haven’t re-tested on newer browsers if now the Solarized theme holds (it did initially, then - for some reasons - it didn’t take anymore).
I have an instance of Palemoon where it works, and it is not that bad.
In its default whitish theme it is unusable, I have a couple devices where it was bearable using the dark themes (but currently the new “change colour of topic starter posts” has made it unreadable in most cases, hopefully this will soon be fixed as well as the Solarized theme).
Yes, the format is driving me bonkers. When I enter in config lines its automatically given code tags or something and then my actual text gets cut off. Very frustrating experience thus far… Hoping to get used to it eventually
