Formatting text - Revision history

Rob at 15:11, 2 March 2008

2008-03-02T15:11:44Z

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	{\| align="center" {{Articletable}}		{\| align="center" {{Articletable}}
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	\|'''Description'''		{{Tableheading}}'''Description'''
	\|'''You type'''		{{Tableheading}}'''You type'''
	\|'''You get'''		{{Tableheading}}'''You get'''
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	\| colspan="3" align="center" \| ''works anywhere within the text''		\| colspan="3" align="center" \| ''works anywhere within the text''
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	:item 2		:item 2
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	\|Preformatted text		\|Preformatted text<ref>The same effect can be achieved by using <tt><nowiki><pre></pre></nowiki></tt>-Tags around the text instead of the leading space in every line.</ref>
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	preformatted text is done with<br />		preformatted text is done with<br />
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	beginning of the line<br />		beginning of the line<br />
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	~~preformatted~~ text is done with		Preformatted text is done with
	a space at the		a space at the
	beginning of the line		beginning of the line.

	\|}		\|}

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	*[[Citation\|Help: Citation		*[[Citation\|Help: Citation]]
	*[[Footnotes\|Help: Footnotes]]		*[[Footnotes\|Help: Footnotes]]
	*[[How to write an article\|Help: How to write an article]]		*[[How to write an article\|Help: How to write an article]]

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	*[[~~Links]]~~		*[[Citation\|Help: Citation
	*[[Footnotes]]		*[[Footnotes\|Help: Footnotes]]
	*[[~~Citation~~]]		*[[How to write an article\|Help: How to write an article]]
	*[[~~How to write an article~~]]		*[[Links\|Help: Links]]

	[[Category:Help]]		[[Category:Help]]

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			*[[Links]]
			*[[Footnotes]]
			*[[Citation]]
	*[[How to write an article]]		*[[How to write an article]]

	[[Category:Help]]		[[Category:Help]]

Rob at 02:47, 2 March 2008

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	You can format your text using ~~wiki~~ markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the ~~wiki~~, sometimes depending on their position. ~~For example, to format a word in ''italic'', you include it in two single quotes like <tt><nowiki>''this''</nowiki></tt>~~		You can format your text using Wiki-markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the Wiki, sometimes depending on their position.

	== Text formatting markup ==		== Text formatting markup ==

Rob: New page: You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes dependin...

2008-03-02T02:30:29Z

New page: You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes dependin...

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You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in ''italic'', you include it in two single quotes like <tt><nowiki>''this''</nowiki></tt>

== Text formatting markup ==

{| align="center" {{Articletable}}
|-
|'''Description'''
|'''You type'''
|'''You get'''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" | ''works anywhere within the text''
|-
|Italic text
|<tt><nowiki>''italic''</nowiki></tt>
|''italic''
|-
| Bold text
|<tt><nowiki>'''bold'''</nowiki></tt>
|'''bold'''
|-
| Bold and italic
|<tt><nowiki>'''''bold & italic'''''</nowiki></tt>
|'''''bold & italic'''''
|-
|Ignore wiki markup
|<tt><nowiki><nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki></nowiki></tt>
|<nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki>
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" | ''works only at the beginning of a line''
|-
| Indent text
|<tt><nowiki>:Indent text</nowiki></tt>
|    Indent text
|-
|Headings of 
different levels<ref>Don't use a heading created by single equal signs as it appears with the same formatting and size as the page title, which can be confusing. An article with four or more headings will automatically create a table of contents.</ref>
|
<tt><nowiki>==level 1==</nowiki></tt> 
<tt><nowiki>===level 2===</nowiki></tt> 
<tt><nowiki>====level 3====</nowiki></tt> 
<tt><nowiki>=====level 4=====</nowiki></tt>
|

==Level 1==
===Level 2===
====Level 3====
=====Level 4=====
|-
|Horizontal rule<ref>Use the horizontal rule very seldom! Rather use a new heading than a horizontal rule, because with a new heading the passage of the text will be directly editable.</ref>
|
<tt><nowiki>----</nowiki></tt>
|
----
|-
|Bullet list
|
* one 
* two 
* three 
** three and one-third 
** three and two-thirds 
|
* one
* two
* three
** three and one-third
** three and two-thirds
|-
|Numbered list
|
# one 
# two<nowiki> </nowiki>spanning several lines<nowiki> </nowiki>without breaking the numbering 
# three 
## three point one 
## three point two 
|
# one
# two spanning several lines without breaking the numbering
# three
## three point one
## three point two
|-
| Mixture of bulleted and numbered lists
|
# one 
# two 
#* two point one 
#* two point two 
|
# one
# two
#* two point one
#* two point two
|-
|Definition list
|
;Definition 
:item 1 
:item 2 
|
;Definition
:item 1
:item 2
|-
|Preformatted text
|
  preformatted text is done with 
  a space at the 
  beginning of the line 
|
preformatted text is done with
a space at the
beginning of the line
|}

Notes: <references/>

== Paragraphs ==

Wiki-markup ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a new line with the HTML tags <tt><nowiki> or </nowiki></tt>.

== Related articles ==
*[[How to write an article]]

[[Category:Help]]