1 # Help on formatting text
3 Text on this wiki is, by default, written in a form very close to how you
4 might write text for an email message. This style of text formatting is
5 called [[MarkDown]], and it works like this:
7 Leave blank lines between paragraphs.
9 You can \**emphasise*\* or \*\***strongly emphasise**\*\* text by placing it
10 in single or double asterisks.
12 To create a list, start each line with an asterisk:
17 To make a numbered list, start each line with a number (any number will
18 do) followed by a period:
24 To create a header, start a line with one or more `#` characters followed
25 by a space and the header text. The number of `#` characters controls the
33 To create a horizontal rule, just write three or more dashes on their own
38 To quote someone, prefix the quote with ">":
41 > that is the question.
43 To write a code block, indent each line with a tab or 4 spaces:
45 10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
48 To link to another page on the wiki, place the page's name inside double
49 square brackets, so you would use `\[[WikiLink]]` to link to [[WikiLink]].
51 To link to any other web page, or to an email address, you can just put the url in angle brackets: <<http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net>>, or you can use the form
56 Advanced users can use [[PreProcessorDirective]]s to do additional cool
59 Also, if the smiley plugin is enabled in your wiki, you can insert
60 [[smileys]] and some other useful symbols.