1 [[meta title="Help on formatting wiki pages"]]
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
35 To create a horizontal rule, just write three or more dashes or stars on
40 To quote someone, prefix the quote with ">":
43 > that is the question.
45 To write a code block, indent each line with a tab or 4 spaces:
47 10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
50 To link to an url or email address, you can just put the
51 url in angle brackets: <<http://ikiwiki.info>>, or you can use the
52 form \[link text\]\(url\)
56 In addition to basic html formatting using [[MarkDown]], this wiki lets
57 you use the following additional features:
59 * To link to another page on the wiki, place the page's name inside double
60 square brackets. So you would use `\[[WikiLink]]` to link to [[WikiLink]].
62 [[if test="enabled(smiley) and smileys" then="""
63 * Insert [[smileys]] and some other useful symbols. :-)
66 [[if test="enabled(shortcut) and shortcuts" then="""
67 * Use [[shortcuts]] to link to common resources.
69 \[[wikipedia War\_of\_1812]]
72 [[if test="enabled(toc)" then="""
73 * Add a table of contents to a page:
79 [[if test="enabled(meta)" then="""
80 * Change the title of a page:
82 \[[meta title="full page title"]]
85 [[if test="enabled(inline) and blog" then="""
86 * Create a [[blog]] by inlining a set of pages:
88 \[[inline pages="blog/*"]]
91 [[if test="enabled(template) and templates" then="""
92 * Create and fill out [[templates]] for repeated chunks of
93 parameterized wiki text.