The special formatting this text is in is called a note.
Thesis comes with a few pre-defined styles that can make this happen. This is how you do it.
When you’re writing a post go to the html editor.
For a note place the code in red between the the text you want:
<p class=”note”>Whatever text you want</p>
If you would like to leave a comment and you have examples of code you want to show, you must "escape the code". This allows the entire code to show correctly by inserting certain variable around certain tags to make them show. If you don't "escape the code" your code will show up broken, mangled, and it won't be able to be seen correctly. "Escaping the code" is very simple...
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