# Formatting FAQs or configurations (general markdown question)

**URL:** <https://talk.commonmark.org/t/formatting-faqs-or-configurations-general-markdown-question/3556>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 21, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/formatting-faqs-or-configurations-general-markdown-question/3556 "2020-07-21T11:06:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![pihentagy](https://talk.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/pihentagy/32/1985_2.png) [@pihentagy](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/pihentagy)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/formatting-faqs-or-configurations-general-markdown-question/3556/1 "2020-07-21T11:06:56Z")

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Since markdown without extensions does not support tables nor definition lists, how do you format small(!) faqs (oneliner question, oneliner answer). Using headers seems overkill and typing html tags does not look nice (=not easily scannable and requires typing) either.

(free free to redirect me to other category/forum if this question is offtopic)

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**Author:** ![mity](https://talk.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/mity/32/1040_2.png) [@mity](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/mity)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/formatting-faqs-or-configurations-general-markdown-question/3556/2 "2020-07-21T18:51:57Z")

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Some time ago, I was facing the same issue. Eventually, I just ended to use a normal paragraphs with some emphasis and “Q:” or “A:” prefix for the question and answer respectively. Imho, the result is quite acceptable.

See these examples:

- [GitHub - mity/acutest: Simple header-only C/C++ unit testing facility. · GitHub](https://github.com/mity/acutest#faq)
- [GitHub - mity/md4c: Fast, compact, dependency-free Markdown parser for C. · GitHub](https://github.com/mity/md4c#faq)

The 2nd example shows it scales nicely even to multi-paragraph answers.