SimpleFormattingGuide

wiki simple formatting guide:

• WikiText is converted to HTML according to the following formatting guidelines:

Paragraphs

• Don't indent paragraphs
• Words wrap and fill as needed
• Use blank lines as separators
• Four or more minus signs make a horizontal rule
• %%% or \\ makes a linebreak (in headings and lists too)

Lists

• asterisk for first level
• asterisk-asterisk for second level, etc.
• Use * for bullet lists, # for numbered lists (mix at will)
• semicolon-term-colon-definition for definition lists:

term here

definition here, as in the <DL><DT><DD> list

• One line for each item
• Other leading whitespace signals preformatted text, changes font.

Headings

• ! at the start of a line makes a small heading
• !! at the start of a line makes a medium heading
• !!! at the start of a line makes a large heading

Fonts

• Indent with one or more spaces to use a monospace font;
• Or enclose within triple braces {{{ }}}, which may cross multiple lines:

This is in monospace

This is not

Indented Paragraphs

• semicolon-colon -- works like <BLOCKQUOTE>, but is actually implemented as Term Definition above without the term

this is an indented block of text

Emphasis

• Use doubled single-quotes ('') for emphasis
• Use doubled underscores (__) for strong emphasis
• Mix them at will: very strong emphasis
• Emphasis can be used multiple times within a line, but cannot cross line boundaries:

  ''this
  
  will not work''

References

• Hyperlinks to other pages within the Wiki are made by placing the page name in square brackets: [this is a page link]
• Hyperlinks to external pages are done like this: [http://www.example.com]
• You can name the links by providing a name, a pipe/bar (|) and then the hyperlink or pagename:
  [PhpWiki home page | http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/]
• You
  can suppress linking to old-style references and URIs by preceding the
  word with a '!', e.g. NotLinkedAsWikiName, http://not.linked.to/
• Also,
  the old way of linking URLs is still supported: precede URLs with
  "http:", "ftp:" or "mailto:" to create links automatically as in: http://example.com/
• URLs ending with .png, .gif, or .jpg are inlined if in square brackets, by themselves

HTML Mark-Up Language

• HTML will display as-is
• < and > are themselves
• Entities (e.g. &amp;) will not convert to characters

Content protection

• To protect content as is
  (i.e., in a <pre></pre> block) without interpretation,
  enclose within triple braces {{{ }}}, which may cross multiple lines.
  Note that the content within the triple braces may still be interpreted
  by the browser in the same way <pre></pre> enclosed content
  is.

Table is supported

• Start the line with single-bar (|) or double-bars (||) to create a table
• One line per row, do not insert blank line, or the table ends
• Double-bar separates header (<th></th>) cells
• Single-bar separates normal table (<td></td>) cells
• Don't end a line with single or double bar; otherwise, a blank cell results
• Example:
  
  

  || Heading 1 || Heading 2
  | Cell a1 | Cell a2
  | Cell b1 | Cell b2

  Result:
  

  Heading 1	Heading 2
  Cell a1	Cell a2
  Cell b1	Cell b2