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--- a/basewiki/helponformatting.mdwn
+++ b/basewiki/helponformatting.mdwn
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-## 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.
 
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ To create a header, start a line with one or more `#` characters followed
 by a space and the header text. The number of `#` characters controls the
 size of the header:
 
+# # h1
 ## ## h2
 ### ### h3
 #### #### h4
@@ -38,7 +40,7 @@ To quote someone, prefix the quote with ">":
 > 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 8 spaces:
 
 	10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
 	20 GOTO 10
@@ -54,6 +56,5 @@ To link to any other web page, or to an email address, you can just put the url
 Advanced users can use [[PreProcessorDirective]]s to do additional cool
 stuff.
 
-----
-
-This style of text formatting is called [[MarkDown]].
+Also, if the smiley plugin is enabled in your wiki, you can insert
+[[smileys]] and some other useful symbols.