Compose tips

• Images can be added to this post.
• WikiText is converted to HTML according to the following formatting guidelines:

  Paragraphs

  • Don't indent paragraphs
  • Words wrap and fill as needed
  • Use blank lines as separators
  • Four or more minus signs make a horizontal rule
  • %%% or \\ makes a linebreak (in headings and lists too)

  Lists

  • asterisk for first level
  • asterisk-asterisk for second level, etc.
  • Use * for bullet lists, # for numbered lists (mix at will)
  • semicolon-term-colon-definition for definition lists:

  term here

  definition here, as in the <DL><DT><DD> list

  • One line for each item
  • Other leading whitespace signals preformatted text, changes font.

  Headings

  • ! at the start of a line makes a small heading
  • !! at the start of a line makes a medium heading
  • !!! at the start of a line makes a large heading

  Fonts

  • Indent with one or more spaces to use a monospace font;
  • Or enclose within triple braces {{{ }}}, which may cross multiple lines:

  This is in monospace

  This is not

  Indented Paragraphs

  • semicolon-colon -- works like <BLOCKQUOTE>, but is actually implemented as Term Definition above without the term

  this is an indented block of text

  Emphasis

  • Use doubled single-quotes ('') for emphasis
  • Use doubled underscores (__) for strong emphasis
  • Mix them at will: very strong emphasis
  • Emphasis can be used multiple times within a line, but cannot cross line boundaries:

    ''this
    will not work''

  References

  • Hyperlinks to other pages within the Wiki are made by placing the page name in square brackets: [this is a page link]
  • Hyperlinks to external pages are done like this: [http://www.example.com]
  • You can name the links by providing a name, a pipe/bar (|) and then the hyperlink or pagename:
    [PhpWiki home page | http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/]
  • You can suppress linking to old-style references and URIs by preceding the word with a '!', e.g. NotLinkedAsWikiName, http://not.linked.to/
  • Also, the old way of linking URLs is still supported: precede URLs with "http:", "ftp:" or "mailto:" to create links automatically as in: http://example.com/
  • URLs ending with .png, .gif, or .jpg are inlined if in square brackets, by themselves

  HTML Mark-Up Language

  • HTML will display as-is
  • < and > are themselves
  • Entities (e.g. &amp;) will not convert to characters

  Content protection

  • To protect content as is (i.e., in a <pre></pre> block) without interpretation, enclose within triple braces {{{ }}}, which may cross multiple lines. Note that the content within the triple braces may still be interpreted by the browser in the same way <pre></pre> enclosed content is.

  Table is supported

  • Start the line with single-bar (|) or double-bars (||) to create a table
  • One line per row, do not insert blank line, or the table ends
  • Double-bar separates header (<th></th>) cells
  • Single-bar separates normal table (<td></td>) cells
  • Don't end a line with single or double bar; otherwise, a blank cell results
  • Example:

    || Heading 1 || Heading 2
    | Cell a1 | Cell a2
    | Cell b1 | Cell b2

    Result:
    

    Heading 1	Heading 2
    Cell a1	Cell a2
    Cell b1	Cell b2