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To experiment with the rules, please try editing the SandBox.
Paragraphs
- Don't indent paragraphs
- Words wrap and fill as needed
- Use blank lines as separators
- Four or more minus signs at the beginning of a line make a horizontal rule
Lists
- tab-* for first level
- tab-tab-* for second level, etc.
- Use * for bullet lists, 1. for numbered lists (mix at will) -- always use 1., it will be renumbered automagically.
- tab-Term:-tab-Definition for definition lists
Foo: Bar
Test: Item
Term: Definition
- One line for each item
- Other leading whitespace signals preformatted text, changes font (see below).
Fonts
- Indent with one or more spaces to use a monospace font:
This is in monospace
This is not
Indented Paragraphs (Not yet implemented in QwikWiki?.)
- tab-space-:-tab -- often used (with emphasis) for quotations. Emphasis
- Use doubled single-quotes ('') for emphasis (usually italics)
- Use tripled single-quotes (''') for strong emphasis (usually bold)
- Use five single-quotes ('), or triples within doubles, for some other kind of emphasis (BoldItalicInWiki?)
- Emphasis can be used multiple times within a line, but cannot cross line boundaries
References
- JoinCapitalizedWords? to make local references
- Use back-quotes to AvoidMakingLocalReferences?, or separate suffixes (like 's') from WikiNames?.
- Putting wiki: infront of a word will enforce a local reference (example: /about/page)[page)]
- Using square brackets after a wiki: link will use the text between the brackets as the link name: (example: A Nice Title!)
- Or precede URLs with "/about/",[http:",] "ftp:" or "mailto:" to create links automatically as in: http://britannica.com/
- URLs ending with .gif, .jpg, or .png are inlined if inserted as a remote reference
Mark-Up Language
- Don't bother
- < and > are themselves
- The & characters will not work. (The assessment that html entities beginning with ampersand will not work may be obsolete. I used & aacute; for a foreign word containing á, and it did work.)
Notes
- When a rule says "tab," it wants a tab character without extra spaces around it. See TipForTypingTab? if you have trouble entering tabs
ported from http://www.foosenblat.org/cgi-bin/qwiki.cgi?TextFormattingRules with additional notes for some new reference markup added
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