1 # Help on formatting text
3 Text on this wiki is written in a form very close to how you might write
4 text for an email message.
6 Leave blank lines between paragraphs.
8 You can \**emphasise*\* or \*\***strongly emphasise**\*\* text by placing it
9 in single or double asterisks.
11 To create a list, start each line with an asterisk:
16 To make a numbered list, start each line with a number (any number will
17 do) followed by a period:
23 To create a header, start a line with one or more `#` characters followed
24 by a space and the header text. The number of `#` characters controls the
32 To create a horizontal rule, just write three or more dashes on their own
37 To quote someone, prefix the quote with ">":
40 > that is the question.
42 To write a code block, indent each line with a tab or 8 spaces:
44 10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
47 To link to another page on the wiki, place the page's name inside double
48 square brackets, so you would use `\[[WikiLink]]` to link to [[WikiLink]].
50 To link to any other web page, or to an email address, you can just put the url in angle brackets: <<http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net>>, or you can use the form
55 Advanced users can use [[PreProcessorDirective]]s to do additional cool
58 Also, if the smiley plugin is enabled in your wiki, you can insert
59 [[smileys]] and some other useful symbols.
63 This style of text formatting is called [[MarkDown]].