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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
  3. 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]].