Guidelines / SHS Markup

Here are some markup rules which can be used when formatting messages in the forum, submissions, comments & editor notes.

General Markup

'''Bold text'''

Second Hand Songs

''Italic text''

Second Hand Songs

'''''Bold italic text'''''

Second Hand Songs

{= Monospaced text =}

Second Hand Songs
A cover songs database

Quoting

{@ {@@ Quoteheader @@} Quote @} quoteheader being optional

Example: {@ {@@ Quote by John @@} Hey, I like your site @}

URL Links

Bare links are converted to HTML links.

Use [[link|link text]] for links with a link text.

Example: [[https://secondhandsongs.com|The Second Hand Songs homepage]] returns The Second Hand Songs homepage

Use [[object|id|link text]] for links to songs, artists, mediums and labels in our database.

Example: [[performance|63296|Crazy by Gnarls Barkley]] returns Crazy by Gnarls Barkley

Example: [[artist|41|The Beatles]] returns The Beatles

Example: [[release|4357|Kind of Blue by Miles Davis]] returns Kind of Blue by Miles Davis

Example: [[label|656|Columbia]] returns Columbia

Images

Image URLs ending with .jpg, .gif and .png are shown as images by default.

Example: https://secondhandsongs.com/art/logo_small.gif returns https://secondhandsongs.com/art/logo_small.gif

Images can also be attached while posting the message.

Lists

Use * for unordered lists.

*  John Lennon
*  Paul McCartney

• John Lennon
• Paul McCartney

Use # for numbered lists.

# John Lennon
# Paul McCartney

1. John Lennon
2. Paul McCartney