BotNews: “We forgot to announce this, but you can use either HTML-style or markd…”

Post #6 71.4K Jan 20, 2016, 20:51 UTC

We forgot to announce this, but you can use either HTML-style or markdown-style formatting in your bot's messages to get italic, bold or fixed-width text and inline links.

See this section for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#formatting-options

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