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What is the markup language for creating posts (and responding to posts)?

I know of the following ones:

  • To make text bold, use stars around the text: *bold text*
  • To make text italics, use underscores: _italic text_

What else is there? Is there any way to insert bullet-lists? What about larger font sizes, etc?

Google+ is starting to become a blog of sorts, and having a fully featured markup language makes it very helpful for formulating useful and lengthy posts.

If no other native markups exist, is there any way to insert HTML? Ultimately, what are the various freedoms we have in making and replying to posts to markup the text?

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so how do I type these chars like in code, and AVOID G+ turning them into stupid font highlights? massive fail if I can't put code in a G+ post... – Sam Watkins Feb 14 at 2:54

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Unfortunately the markup for Google+ (and Google Talk by extension) is fairly limited.
You're missing:

  • -item- for strikethrough
  • @name or +name to tag someone.

See screenshot for more posting tips:
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Reference: Posting Tips, section "Posting tips"

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The original Markdown doesn't have strikethrough I placed the markup you need for strikethrough above. – phwd♦ Jan 23 '12 at 6:22
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Are there any others? If this is all, Google+ could use some serious room to grow. At a minimum, I'd like to be able to do some simple formatting like Bullet and Number lists. – Jack Jan 23 '12 at 7:20
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Nope, that's it. Bold, italic, and strikethrough. support.google.com/plus/bin/… – Al Everett Jan 24 '12 at 2:37
Ohh, if Google+ or any other social networking starts accepting formatted text, then it would all look like a mess, not comments. – Deepak Kamat Feb 5 at 12:03

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