1 [[!meta title="Formatting wiki pages"]]
2 [[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]
4 Text on this wiki is, by default, written in a form very close to how you
5 might write text for an email message. This style of text formatting is
6 called [[MarkDown]], and it works like this:
8 Leave blank lines between paragraphs.
10 You can \**emphasise*\* or \*\***strongly emphasise**\*\* text by placing it
11 in single or double asterisks.
13 To create a list, start each line with an asterisk:
18 To make a numbered list, start each line with a number (any number will
19 do) followed by a period:
25 To create a header, start a line with one or more `#` characters followed
26 by a space and the header text. The number of `#` characters controls the
36 To create a horizontal rule, just write three or more dashes or stars on
41 To quote someone, prefix the quote with ">":
44 > that is the question.
46 To write a code block, indent each line with a tab or 4 spaces:
48 10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
51 To link to an url or email address, you can just put the
52 url in angle brackets: <<http://ikiwiki.info>>, or you can use the
53 form \[link text\]\(url\)
57 In addition to basic html formatting using [[MarkDown]], this wiki lets
58 you use the following additional features:
60 * To link to another page on the wiki, place the page's name inside double
61 square brackets. So you would use `\[[WikiLink]]` to link to [[WikiLink]].
63 [[!if test="enabled(smiley) and smileys" then="""
64 * Insert [[smileys]] and some other useful symbols. :-)
67 [[!if test="enabled(shortcut) and shortcuts" then="""
68 * Use [[shortcuts]] to link to common resources.
70 \[[!wikipedia War\_of\_1812]]
73 [[!if test="enabled(template) and templates" then="""
74 * Create and fill out [[templates]] for repeated chunks of
75 parameterized wiki text.
78 * Insert various [[directives|directive]] onto a page to perform useful
80 [[!if test="enabled(toc) or enabled(meta) or (enabled(inline))" then="""
84 [[!if test="enabled(toc)" then="""
85 * Add a table of contents to a page:
91 [[!if test="enabled(meta)" then="""
92 * Change the title of a page:
94 \[[!meta title="full page title"]]
97 [[!if test="enabled(inline)" then="""
98 * Create a blog by inlining a set of pages:
100 \[[!inline pages="blog/*"]]
103 [[!if test="enabled(listdirectives)" then="""
104 Full list of [[directives|directive]] enabled for this wiki: