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Formatting Rules




Wiki Help

The Sandbox

The SandBox is a special TikiWiki page where you can practice editing.
Tip: Shift-Click the SandBox link or right-click the link and select Open in New Window to open it in a new window.

The Wiki Editor

View the TikiWiki help for the page editor: Tiki Editor Helpexternal link


Formatting Rules


Wiki Pages & Links

  • To create a link to a new page, type ((free links)) (to display the page name) or type ((free links|Title Text)) to display the title text on the wiki page.
  • Click the ? that is displayed to create the new page.
  • To ignore links, use reversed parentheses — ))James-Tanny((
  • To create a web link, type [http://www.somesite.org] or [http://www.somesite.org| Some Site!]
  • To create an email link, type: [mailto:johndoe@someplace.com] or [mailto:johndoe@someplace.com | John Doe]

Note: To actually display a [ char, type two square brackets.


Images

{img src=http://jtfhosting.com/images/bluelogo.gif} becomes:



Uploaded image files are always saved in the img/wiki_up directory.
{picture file=img/wiki_up/Aardvark.PNG}


Text Formatting

Formatting Reason
Characters Used
Example
Bold Text
2 underscores "_"
__text__
Centered Text
2 colons ":"
::text::
Colored Text
2 tildes "~"
~~#FF0000:text~~
Italic Text
2 single quotes "'"
''text''
Monospaced Text
Minus & Plus "-" & "+"
-+text+-
Underlined Text
3 equal signs "="
===text===
Text Box
1 carat "^"
^text^



Quote Block

Code:
{QUOTE()}
"A virtual team wrote a book on managing and working with virtual teams."
{QUOTE}

becomes:
Quote:
"A virtual team wrote a book on managing and working with virtual teams."



Horizontal Rule

Code: four dashes
----

becomes a horizontal rule like this one:


Lists

Create lists by starting a paragraph with one or more asterisks or #.
Code:
* Bulleted list - Indent level 1
* Bulleted list - Indent level 1
** Bulleted list - Indent level 2
** Bulleted list - Indent level 2
*** Bulleted list - Indent level 3
# Numbered list - Indent level 1
# Numbered list - Indent level 1
## Numbered list - Indent level 2
## Numbered list - Indent level 2
### Numbered list - Indent level 3
;CHM:Compiled Help Module
;CHI:Compiled Help Index

becomes:
  • Bulleted list - Indent level 1
  • Bulleted list - Indent level 1
    • Bulleted list - Indent level 2
    • Bulleted list - Indent level 2
      • Bulleted list - Indent level 3
  1. Numbered list - Indent level 1
  2. Numbered list - Indent level 1
    1. Numbered list - Indent level 2
    2. Numbered list - Indent level 2
      1. Numbered list - Indent level 3
CHM
Compiled Help Module

CHI
Compiled Help Index



Headings

Code:
!!! Heading level <h3>
!!!! Heading level <h4>
!!!!! Heading level <h5>

becomes:

Heading level <h3>

Heading level <h4>

Heading level <h5>
Note:
You can type {maketoc} at the top of a page to get a jump list to all page headings.

Tables

Tables start and end with 2 vertical bars, cells are separated by a single vertical bar.
Code:
||::header ::
row 1 - cell 1 | row 1 - cell 2 | row 1 - cell 3
::another header::
row 3 - cell 1 | row 3 - cell 2 | row 3 - cell 3 ||

becomes:

header
row 1 - cell 1 row 1 - cell 2 row 1 - cell 3
another header
row 3 - cell 1 row 3 - cell 2 row 3 - cell 3



Bookmarks

TikiWiki does not support anchors. However, if you type {maketoc} at the top of a page, a list of links to all page headings is displayed.

Extended Formatting

Non-breaking space

Use ~hs~~ to add the HTML "&nbsp;" for a non-breaking space.

Section not parsed

Code:
Type __~np~{maketoc}~/np~__ at the top of a page.

becomes:
Type {maketoc} at the top of a page.

Contributors to this page: Char and AvidWriter .
Page last modified on Saturday, 28 of October, 2006 [22:06:55 UTC] by Char.


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