The LINIBT forum is a place of discussion regarding LINBIT Software and technologies. As such the conversations will often have a very technical nature. Because of this, formatting of the post can be crucial to relay the information properly and get a well-informed response.
I would encourage everyone to familiarize themselves with the toolbar in the text entry field. There are several options, for example the “upload” option which allows you to attach screenshots, like so:
Another option, which is most likely going to be the most useful, will be the “preformatted text”. This is often known as “code blocks” on other platforms. This provides monospaced font which will be most useful for logs snippets, terminal output, configuration file examples, etc.
Markup for this is done via the backtick. You can use a single backtick around a few words to preformat a word or short phrase, for example: /var/log/kern.log, or you can enclose a paragraph of text in three sequential backticks like so.
2025-05-27T08:02:23.235555-07:00 devinlaptop kernel: Linux version 6.8.0-60-generic (buildd@lcy02-amd64-054) (x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-13 (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04) 13.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.42) #63-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Apr 15 19:04:15 UTC 2025 (Ubuntu 6.8.0-60.63-generic 6.8.12)
2025-05-27T08:02:23.235561-07:00 devinlaptop kernel: Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.8.0-60-generic root=/dev/mapper/vgkubuntu-root ro
2025-05-27T08:02:23.235562-07:00 devinlaptop kernel: KERNEL supported cpus:
2025-05-27T08:02:23.235563-07:00 devinlaptop kernel: Intel GenuineIntel
2025-05-27T08:02:23.235563-07:00 devinlaptop kernel: AMD AuthenticAMD
2025-05-27T08:02:23.235564-07:00 devinlaptop kernel: Hygon HygonGenuine
2025-05-27T08:02:23.235564-07:00 devinlaptop kernel: Centaur CentaurHauls
2025-05-27T08:02:23.235566-07:00 devinlaptop kernel: zhaoxin Shanghai
2025-05-27T08:02:23.235567-07:00 devinlaptop kernel: x86/split lock detection: #AC: crashing the kernel on kernel split_locks and warning on user-space split_locks
As you can see this is very useful for logs lines and such which you do not want line-wrapped.
Another useful feature is the blockquote. This can be used to quote from a previous post so that you may answer inline.
For example:
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck would chuck all the wood if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
There are various other formatting options and tricks like bulleted and numbered list, hyperlinks, bold, etc. The ones above are just likely some of the more useful ones.