ikiwiki/ helponformatting

Help on formatting text

Text on this wiki is written in a form very close to how you might write text for an email message.

Leave blank lines between paragraphs.

You can *emphasise* or **strongly emphasise** text by placing it in single or double asterisks.

To create a list, start each line with an asterisk:

To make a numbered list, start each line with a number (any number will do) followed by a period:

  1. "1. first line"
  2. "2. second line"
  3. "2. third line"

To create a header, start a line with one or more # characters followed by a space and the header text. The number of # characters controls the size of the header:

# h1

## h2

### h3

#### h4

To create a horizontal rule, just write three or more dashes on their own line:


To quote someone, prefix the quote with ">":

To be or not to be, that is the question.

To write a code block, indent each line with a tab or 8 spaces:

10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
20 GOTO 10

To link to another page on the wiki, place the page's name inside double square brackets, so you would use [[WikiLink]] to link to WikiLink.

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 [link text](url)


Advanced users can use PreProcessorDirectives to do additional cool stuff.

Also, if the smiley plugin is enabled in your wiki, you can insert smileys and some other useful symbols.


This style of text formatting is called MarkDown.