Text Formatting

The following markup is available for formatting text.
This wiki also supports many HTML tags.
Also see /Links and /Macros.

1. Fonts

1.1. Bold and Italic

1.2. Underline and Strike

1.3. Large and Small

1.4. Sub and Superscript

1.5. Fixed-Width

2. Headlines

2.1. Section Headlines

2.2. Automatic Table of Contents

3. Layout

3.1. Paragraphs

3.2. Indentation

3.3. New lines

3.4. Alignment

3.5. Preformatted Text

3.6. Lists

3.6.1. Definition Lists

3.7. Tables

3.8. Horizontal Lines

3.9. Mdash

3.10. Line Continuation

4. Escaping Markup Rules

4.1. Plural WikiWords

1. Fonts

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Bold and Italic

Create bold and italic text by using a repeated single quote character before and after the text to be emphasized.

Use 2 quotes for italic, 3 quotes for bold, or 5 for both:

Here's ''italic'' and '''bold''' or '''''bold & italic'''''

Here's italic and bold or bold & italic

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Underline and Strike

Use 2 underscores to underline, and 3 hyphens to strike:

Here's __underlined__ and ---striken text---, or a __mix ---of the--- two__.

Here's underlined and striken text, or a mix of the two.

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Large and Small

Use 2 plus "++" symbols to make text bigger, +++ is bigger, ++++ is biggest:

This is ++big++, this is +++bigger+++, this is ++++biggest++++.

This is big, this is bigger, this is biggest.

Use 2 tilde "~~" symbols to make text smaller, ~~~ is smaller, ~~~~ even smaller:

This is ~~small~~, this is ~~~smaller~~~, this is ~~~~smallest~~~~.

This is small, this is smaller, this is smallest.

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Sub and Superscript

Use the caret "^" symbol to invoke superscript, 2 carets "^^" for subscript:

This is ^superscript^ and this is ^^subscript^^

This is ^superscript and this is _subscript

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Fixed-Width

Create monospace text by using a space as the first character on a line:

 This is text in a monospace font

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2. Headlines

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Section Headlines

Up to six levels of headline can be used.

Create headlines by using an "=" equals as the first character on a line.

Note a space must separate the headline text from the "=" equals.

= Section Headline 1 =
== Section Headline 2 ==
=== Section Headline Three ===
==== Section Headline Four ====
===== Section Headline 5 =====
====== Section Headline 6 ======

Section Headline 1

Section Headline 2

Section Headline Three

Section Headline Four

Section Headline 5

Section Headline 6

Sections headlines correspond to, and are implemented as, the HTML tags <h1> to <h5>

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Automatic Table of Contents

This variation on the previous item, Section Headlines, adds a table of contents that is linked to each headline, in place of a special "toc" tag placed anywhere in a document:

<toc>

Each headline and its matching entry in the table of contents can be numbered in the order they appear on the page, or not numbered, or a mixture of both, using the following codes:

== # Number on headline. Number on item in table of contents. ==
== * No number on headline. No number on item in table of contents. ==
== #* No number on headline. Number on item in table of contents. ==

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3. Layout

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Paragraphs

To separate paragraphs simply leave a blank line between.

Like this.

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Indentation

Indent sentences or entire paragraphs by using a ":" colon as the first character on a line:

:Text
::More text
:::Yet more text

Text

More text

Yet more text

To indent the first sentence of a paragraph begin the line with two semicolons ";;":

;;The first line of this paragraph will be indented by four non-breaking spaces.

    The first line of this paragraph will be indented by four non-breaking spaces. The first line of this paragraph will be indented by four non-breaking spaces. The first line of this paragraph will be indented by four non-breaking spaces.

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New lines

Use <br> to change the line:

 First line<br>
 Next line

• Use 2 commas ",," at the end of a line to insert <br>
• A colon ":" put on a line by itself will also break lines.

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Alignment

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• ]]] centered [[[

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• ]]] right align ]]]

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• [[[ justify text ]]]

• A bug in our justify markup requires the enclosed text be wrapped in either ++ or — font size markup.

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Preformatted Text

Any text placed between a pair of "pre" tags should appear exactly as entered, so that ascii art and code can be included:

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                     \       /            _\/_      
                       .-'-.              //o\     _\/_
    _  ___  __  _ --_ /     \ _--_ __  __   | __   /o\\
  =-=-_=-=-_=-=_=-_= -=======- = =-=_=-=_,-'|"'_"'"--|-,_
   =- _=-=-_=- _=-= _--=====- _=-=_-_,-"      (")    |
  jgs=- =- =-= =- = -  -===- -= - ."       '-( : )-'\
             ... anything is possible...

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Lists

Create bulleted and numbered lists by using an asterisk * or hash # as the first character on a line:

* bullets

## numbered list depth two

* bullets
** indented bullets

# numbered list
# numbered list
## indented list
## indented list
### depth 3 indented list
### more
## and more
# and more

• bullets

1. numbered list depth two

• bullets
  • indented bullets

1. numbered list
2. numbered list
   1. indented list
   2. indented list
      1. depth 3 indented list
      2. more
   3. and more
3. and more

Note: when you use # inside Section Headlines, the first level won't be numbered.

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Definition Lists

A definition list can be created by placing a ";" semicolon as the first character on a line, and using a ":" colon to separate the term from the definition. The colon must be on the same line as the semicolon; Definitions can be indented by repeated use of the ";" semicolon.

;Term:Definition
;Verse:The owl and the pussy cat went to sea

;;Indented Term:Definition of an indented term

Term

Definition

Verse

The owl and the pussy cat went to sea

Indented Term

Definition of an indented term

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Tables

Column A	Column B	Column C
Entry for row 1, Column A	Entry for row 1, Column B	Entry for row 1, Column C
Entry for row 2, Column A	Entry for row 2, Column B	Entry for row 2, Column C
Spanning entry		Entry for row 3, Column C
More spanning

The above table is done like this:

||'''Column A'''||'''Column B'''||'''Column C'''||
||Entry for row 1, Column A||Entry for row 1, Column B||Entry for row 1, Column C||
||Entry for row 2, Column A||Entry for row 2, Column B||Entry for row 2, Column C||
||||Spanning entry|| Entry for row 3, Column C ||
||||||More spanning||

For more control with tables use HTML.

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Horizontal Lines

Use four "-" hyphens (minuses) as the first characters of a line.

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Mdash

Use two "-" hyphens for an mdash (escape this sequence with !--)

Two hyphens—between words.

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Line Continuation

Continue a line of text by using a "\" backslash. This can be useful for breaking up long lines of text in line sensitive sections such as lists or indented text:

 * This bullet\  
point could have a long\  
sentence that takes several lines.

• This bullet point could have a long sentence that takes several lines.

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4. Escaping Markup Rules

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These tags are used to toggle wiki markup rules or extended HTML within a piece of text surrounded by them:

• <no> disables wiki markup rules.
• <pre> encodes everything for ASCII art and blocks of code.
• <html> enables extended use of supported HTML markup.

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Plural WikiWords?

Use "" to terminate a WikiWord for plurals, avoiding a link to WikiWords?:

WikiWord""s

WikiWords

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