1 # Help on formatting text
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 You can also make the first two levels of heading by underlining text with
50 To create a horizontal rule, just write three or more dashes or stars on
55 To quote someone, prefix the quote with ">":
58 > that is the question.
60 To write a code block, indent each line with a tab or 4 spaces:
62 10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
65 To link to another page on the wiki, place the page's name inside double
66 square brackets, so you would use `\[[WikiLink]]` to link to [[WikiLink]].
68 To link to any other web page, or to an email address, you can just put the
69 url in angle brackets: <<http://ikiwiki.info>>, or you can use the
70 form \[link text\]\(url\)
74 You can also use [[PreProcessorDirective]]s to do additional cool stuff.
76 [[if test="enabled(smiley)" then="""
77 Also, because this wiki has the smiley plugin enabled, you can
78 insert [[smileys]] and some other useful symbols.