Thread:USR80/@comment-1639863-20140609014317/@comment-220364-20140609021311

Just a few addenda... in that line, or the preceding one for that matter. It automatically reads the next line as a new line.
 * In the mark up an asterisk ( * ) at the sart of a line generates a bulleted point. The mark up really does not need a or
 * a should be used only if the character actually appears in the story. And only in the appearance list. If the character is assumed to be acting behind the scenes, BTS should be used. And if the character is just mentioned then Mentioned should be used. The can be used after a link or to wrap a link as Haroldrocks explained for a.
 * Indents can be a bit more of a pain with bulleted lists. Any such list needs to start with a line beginning with a single asterisk. Following lined can be indented one level either by adding colons or additional asterisks. so the second line would start with :* or **. The mark up does read those differently. It sees :* as starting a new list and ** as contusion the current list. This affects indent depth, line spacing, and how some text-to-voice software translate the text. Both ways are used, but it should be consistent in the article. The pain is a situation like this - getting multiple paragraphs in a bulleted items to line up and not break the bulleting structure.  works, but I tend to ad a "hidden blank line for ease of reading in editing moe. I do that by adding  before the next paragraph.