doc/ikiwiki/formatting.mdwn



[[!meta title="Formatting wiki pages"]]
Text on this wiki is, by default, written in a form very close to how you
might write text for an email message. This style of text formatting is
called [[MarkDown]], and it works like this:
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. first line"
"2. second line"
"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:
# h1
## h2
### h3
#### h4
##### h5
###### h6
To create a horizontal rule, just write three or more dashes or stars 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 or 4 spaces:
10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
20 GOTO 10

To link to an url or email address, you can just put the
url in angle brackets: <http://ikiwiki.info>, or you can use the
form [link text](url)

In addition to basic html formatting using [[MarkDown]], this wiki lets
you use the following additional features:

To link to another page on the wiki, place the page's name inside double
square brackets. So you would use \[[WikiLink]] to link to [[WikiLink]].

[[!if test="enabled(smiley) and smileys" then="""

Insert [[smileys]] and some other useful symbols. :-)
"""]]

[[!if test="enabled(shortcut) and shortcuts" then="""


Use [[shortcuts]] to link to common resources.
[[!wikipedia War_of_1812]]
"""]]


[[!if test="enabled(toc)" then="""


Add a table of contents to a page:
[[!toc ]]
"""]]


[[!if test="enabled(meta)" then="""


Change the title of a page:
[[!meta title="full page title"]]
"""]]


[[!if test="enabled(inline) and blog" then="""


Create a [[blog]] by inlining a set of pages:
[[!inline pages="blog/*"]]
"""]]


[[!if test="enabled(template) and templates" then="""

Create and fill out [[templates]] for repeated chunks of
parameterized wiki text.
"""]]