-## Help on formatting text
+# Help on formatting text
-Text on this wiki is written in a form very close to how you might write
-text for an email message.
+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.
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 on their own
-line:
+You can also make the first two levels of heading by underlining text with
+equals or dash:
+
+heading 1
+=========
+
+ heading 1
+ =========
+
+heading 2
+---------
+
+ heading 2
+ ---------
+
+To create a horizontal rule, just write three or more dashes or stars on
+their own line:
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> To be or not to be,
> that is the question.
-To write a code block, indent each line with a tab:
+To write a code block, indent each line with a tab or 4 spaces:
10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
20 GOTO 10
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-This style of text formatting is called [[MarkDown]].
+You can also use [[PreProcessorDirective]]s to do additional cool stuff.
+
+Also, if the smiley plugin is enabled in your wiki, you can insert
+[[smileys]] and some other useful symbols.