Tell HN: Please add formatdoc link to the reply and submit pages
The edit page shows it already. Actually I would highly suggest adding the whole footer from the homepage to all pages.
Blank lines separate paragraphs.
Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)
Text surrounded by asterisks is italicized, if the character after the first asterisk isn't whitespace.
Urls become links, except in the text field of a submission.
Isn't the homepage footer from http://news.ycombinator.com/ on all the sub pages anyway?