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-# Help on formatting text
+[[meta title="Help on 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
@@ -47,28 +47,48 @@ To write a code block, indent each line with a tab or 4 spaces:
        10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
        20 GOTO 10
 
-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]].
-
-To link to any other web page, or to an email address, you can just put the
+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 \[link text\]\(url\)
 
 ----
 
-You can also use [[PreProcessorDirective]]s to do additional cool stuff.
+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(inline)" then="""
-This wiki has the inline plugin enabled, so you can create a [[blog]] on any
-page.
+[[if test="enabled(smiley) and smileys" then="""
+* Insert [[smileys]] and some other useful symbols. :-)
 """]]
 
-[[if test="enabled(smiley)" then="""
-This wiki has the smiley plugin enabled, so you can 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(shortcut)" then="""
-This wiki has the shortcut plugin enabled, so you can use [[shortcuts]] to link
-to common resources.
+[[if test="enabled(template) and templates" then="""
+* Create and fill out [[templates]] for repeated chunks of
+  parameterized wiki text.
 """]]