1 [[!meta title="Formatting wiki pages"]]
2 [[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]
4 Text on this wiki is, by default, written in a form very close to how you
5 might write text for an email message. This style of text formatting is
6 called [[MarkDown]], and it works like this:
8 Leave blank lines between paragraphs.
10 You can *\*emphasise\** or **\*\*strongly emphasise\*\*** text by placing it
11 in single or double asterisks.
14 **Open-source software** may be developed in a *collaborative* public manner.
16 To create a list, start each line with an asterisk:
21 To make a numbered list, start each line with a number (any number will
22 do) followed by a period:
28 To create a header, start a line with one or more `#` characters followed
29 by a space and the header text. The number of `#` characters controls the
39 To create a horizontal rule, just write three or more dashes or stars on
44 To quote someone, prefix the quote with ">":
47 > that is the question.
49 To write a code block, indent each line with a tab or 4 spaces:
51 10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
54 To link to an url or email address, you can just put the
55 url in angle brackets: <<http://ikiwiki.info>>, or you can use the
56 form \[link text\]\(url\)
60 In addition to basic html formatting using [[MarkDown]], this wiki lets
61 you use the following additional features:
63 * To link to another page on the wiki, place the page's name inside double
64 square brackets. So you would use `\[[WikiLink]]` to link to [[WikiLink]].
66 [[!if test="enabled(smiley) and smileys" then="""
67 * Insert [[smileys]] and some other useful symbols. :-)
70 [[!if test="enabled(shortcut) and shortcuts" then="""
71 * Use [[shortcuts]] to link to common resources.
73 \[[!wikipedia War\_of\_1812]]
76 [[!if test="enabled(template) and templates" then="""
77 * Create and fill out [[templates]] for repeated chunks of
78 parameterized wiki text.
81 * Insert various [[directives|directive]] onto a page to perform useful
83 [[!if test="enabled(toc) or enabled(meta) or enabled(inline)" then="""
87 [[!if test="enabled(toc)" then="""
88 * Add a table of contents to a page:
94 [[!if test="enabled(meta)" then="""
95 * Change the title of a page:
97 \[[!meta title="full page title"]]
100 [[!if test="enabled(inline)" then="""
101 * Create a blog by inlining a set of pages:
103 \[[!inline pages="blog/*"]]
106 [[!if test="enabled(listdirectives)" then="""
107 Full list of [[directives|directive]] enabled for this wiki: