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Oeditpus Rex

(43,094 posts)
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 02:44 AM Aug 2025

Can you still do that small type on DU?

It looked like a footnote. I used it often for (usually) innuendo, but I've forgotten what the switch was. I thought it was just :tinytype:, but that doesn't work.

Anybody?

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Can you still do that small type on DU? (Original Post) Oeditpus Rex Aug 2025 OP
IIRC almost all the markup options were removed after the Great Hack of 2017 AZJonnie Aug 2025 #1
Subscript and superscript Donkees Aug 2025 #2
This wasn't either of those Oeditpus Rex Aug 2025 #3

AZJonnie

(4,035 posts)
1. IIRC almost all the markup options were removed after the Great Hack of 2017
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 03:16 AM
Aug 2025
I think this is the fanciest you can get


IOW, the only options are the ones above the Reply Text box

Donkees

(33,745 posts)
2. Subscript and superscript
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 04:25 AM
Aug 2025

Subscript: subscript

Superscript: superscript

Go to Community Help Forum, see ''Posting on DU: Shortcuts, Tips, and Codes''

 

Oeditpus Rex

(43,094 posts)
3. This wasn't either of those
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 11:02 AM
Aug 2025

But I guess either would do. Thanks.

That is, if I do it right.

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