[[!meta title="Formatting wiki pages"]]
[[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]
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="""
[[!if test="enabled(template) and templates" then="""
-
Create and fill out [[templates]] for repeated chunks of
parameterized wiki text.
"""]]
-
Insert various [[directives|directive]] onto a page to perform useful
actions.
[[!if test="enabled(toc) or enabled(meta) or (enabled(inline) and blog)" then="""
For example, you can:
"""]]
[[!if test="enabled(toc)" then="""
[[!if test="enabled(meta)" then="""
[[!if test="enabled(inline) and blog" then="""
[[!if test="enabled(listdirectives)" then="""
Full list of [[directives|directive]] enabled for this wiki:
[[!listdirectives]]
"""]]