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Basic editing - Text formatting rules - Documentation index

Tables: simple - advanced

Paragraphs: for a new paragraph, use a blank line;

Line break: \\, [[<<]], or (:nl:)

!! for big heading
!!! for smaller headings,
-> to indent text
-< hanging text
---- for horizontal line

Join line: \

Lists:

  • * for bulleted list
  1. # for numbered list
:term: definition for definition lists

Font size:

[+big+]  
[++bigger++]  
[-small-]  
[--smaller--]  
'^superscript^'  
'_subscript_'  

Font Styles:

''italics''  
'''bold'''  
'''''bold italics'''''  
@@monospaced@@
{+inserted+}  
{-deleted-}

No-wiki blocks:

[= Wiki ''text'' & (:markups:) =]  
[@ Wiki ''text'' & (:markups:) in monospace @]
[% ... %]   (no display)

References:

[[another page]],
[[http://example.com/]],
[[another page | link text]],
[[#anchor]], [[#anchor | link text]]

Groups: [[Group/Page]] displays Page, [[Group.Page]] displays Group.Page, [[Group(.Page)]] displays Group, [[Group/]] links Group homepage


Custom tools

Markups

LaTeX:

Include LaTeX codes inside the (:latex:)...(:latexend:) markup.
See http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/TrueLatex for more details.

HTML:

Include HTML and JavaScript codes inside the (:html:)...(:htmlend:) markup.

Comments:

Totally invisible comments: [% ... %]
Visible only to editors: [%== ... ==%]
Under development/construction section: [%-- ... --%]

External file link:

To link files from http://www.subhrajit.net/files/, use [[* Path/To/File.ext]] or [[* Path/To/File.ext | Link Text ]].
You can also define (:FilesPath: Path/To/:) at the beginning of the wikitext, and use it in creating links as in [[* {$:FilesPath}File.ext]].
Alternatively you can create the raw URL using {$FileServerBase}Path/To/File.ext.
To create a local (primary server) copy of a file and link to that, use [[(*) Path/To/File.ext]] or [[(*) Path/To/File.ext | Link Text ]].
To include a primary link, and a secondary alternate link in a pop-up, use [[ Primary_link_URL > Secondary_link_URL | Link text ]].
Pop-up box in a link can be created using [[^ {Popup text including wiki markups but not containing a curly end bracket} | Link text]].

LiveEdit block:

To make a block of wiki-text Live-Editable, include it within [#-BlockName] ... [-#] markup.

TODO:

To mark a 'TODO' item in the page include '''TODO:''' todo text\n in the page.

Page Variables

{$FileServerBase} = http://www.subhrajit.net/files/

Markup Expressions

Access GET parameters:

To access any GET parameter passed into the page, use {(_GET ParamName)}.
Example: "{(_GET n)}" in this page gives "Site.EditQuickReference"

Blog modules

Just include the line (:include Includes.BlogTemplateA:) anywhere in the wikitext to convert it into a blog.

Page last modified on February 20, 2010, at 07:17 PM EST.
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