You can find a Markdown cheat sheet at the link below. You can use this to pretty up your posts. You can also use some BBCode (don’t know what specifically is supported, but basics should work), and/or basic HTML. Markdown is fairly readable when it is unprocessed though, so it has that advantage.
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