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diff --git a/doc/helponformatting.mdwn b/doc/helponformatting.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2238fcbfe --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/helponformatting.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +## Help on formatting text + +Text on this wiki is written in a form very close to how you might write +text for an email message. + +Leave blank lines between paragraphs. + +You can \**emphasise*\* or \*\***strongly emphasise**\*\* text by placing it +in single or double asterisks. + +To create a list, start each line with an asterisk: + +* \* this is my list +* \* another item + +To make a numbered list, start each line with a number (any number will +do) followed by a period: + +1. 1\. first line +2. 2\. second line +2. 2\. third line + +To create a header, start a line with one or more `#` characters followed +by a space and the header text. The number of `#` characters controls the +size of the header: + +## h2 +### h3 +#### h4 + +To create a horizontal rule, just write three or more dashes on their own +line: + +---- + +To quote someone, prefix the quote with ">": + +> To be or not to be, +> that is the question. + +To write a code block, indent each line with a tab: + + 10 PRINT "Hello, world!" + 20 GOTO 10 + +To link to another page on the wiki, place the page's name inside double +square brackets to create a [[[[WikiLink]]]]. + +To link to any other web page, you can just put the url in angle brackets: +<<http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net>>, or you can use the form +\[link text\]\(url\) + +---- + +This style of text formatting is called [[MarkDown]]. diff --git a/doc/sandbox.mdwn b/doc/sandbox.mdwn index 072f8908a..d39f76032 100644 --- a/doc/sandbox.mdwn +++ b/doc/sandbox.mdwn @@ -1,7 +1,5 @@ This is the SandBox, a page anyone can edit to try out ikiwiki. -See [[MarkDown]] for documentation of the markup syntax used on this page. - ---- Here's a paragraph. |