Audience: Beginner (no HTML/CSS/JS experience needed)

What this shows

Two different ways to format text in a passage — Markdown shorthand and raw HTML tags — plus a simple inline CSS style.

How it works

• Snowman runs every passage’s text through a Markdown renderer. Wrapping text in **two asterisks** makes it bold, and *one asterisk* makes it italic.
• You can also write the equivalent HTML tags directly: <strong>bold</strong> and <em>italic</em>. Both approaches produce the same kind of output.
• <span style="color: blue;">...</span> is a raw HTML element with an inline CSS style attribute, letting you style small pieces of text without a separate stylesheet.

Using this in your own story

• Prefer Markdown (**bold**, *italic*, # Heading, - list item) for quick, readable formatting.
• Drop down to raw HTML (<span>, <div>, inline style="...") when you need something Markdown doesn’t support, like specific colors or custom attributes.

Full source

:: StoryData
{
	"ifid":"F1D16045-587C-4664-B5A7-E3E56D876740"
}

:: StoryTitle
Basic Text Formatting in Snowman

:: Start
This is **bold** text and this is *italic* text, written using Markdown.

This is <strong>bold</strong> and this is <em>italic</em>, written using raw HTML tags instead.

<span style="color: blue;">This sentence is styled blue using an inline CSS style attribute.</span>

Download the .twee file

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