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WikiFormattingGuide A quick guide to basic wiki markup.

Text Formatting

Type inWhat appearsExplanation
word or wordsword or wordstype plain text, plain text appears
*word or words*word or wordsenclosing words in * makes them bold
~word or words~word or wordsenclosing words in ~ makes them italicized
`word or words`word or wordsenclosing words in ` makes them fixed font
-/word or words/-word or wordsenclosing words in -/ /- makes them shown in strikethru
!Headline

!!Headline

!!!Headline

Headline

Headline

Headline

 small headline

bigger headline

biggest headline
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Entering 3 or more hyphens in a row creates a solid horizontal line on the page.

Lists

Type inWhat appearsExplanation 
   * item a
   * item b
  • item a
  • item b
 3 spaces and * creates a bullet item. 
   * item a
      * item b
         * item c
  • item a
    • item b
      • item c
 To create nested lists, use 3 additional spaces for each item. 
   1 item a
   1 item b
   1 item c
  1. item a
  2. item b
  3. item c
 3 spaces and a number starts a numbered list. We handle incrementing the list for you. 
   * item a
      1 sub item a
      1 sub item b
   * item b
  • item a
    1. sub-item a
    2. sub-item b
  • item b
  • item c
 You can combine bulleted, numbered, and nested lists.

Tables

Type inWhat appearsExplanation 
| a | b | c |
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| A | B | C |
abc
123
ABC
 Use | to create a table. Enclose each cell in |

Linking

Type inWhat appearsExplanation
WikiFormattingGuide WikiFormattingGuide CapitalizedWordsStuckTogether (or WikiWords) will produce a link automatically.
[[wiki formatting guide]] wiki formatting guide? If you want multiple words with spaces to be a link, you need to surround the words with double brackets: [[ ]]. Note that "WikiFormattingGuide" and "wiki formatting guide" are completely different pages! One of them exists, and one has yet to be created.
[[http://www.yahoo.com][Yahoo]] Yahoo Let's you specify a link and anchor name
foo@bar.com foo@bar.com Email addresses are automatically linked
www.foo.com
http://www.foo.com/ 		www.foo.com
http://www.foo.com/ 		URLs are automatically linked

Images

ActionWhat appears
To include an image in your document, follow these steps:
  1. Press the Attach button
  2. Press Browse to locate the image on your hard drive
  3. Press the Upload Attachment button
  4. Edit the page and enter this piece of html:
    5. <img src="yoda.jpg" />
    Make sure to substitute "yoda.jpg" with the name of your own Star Wars image.
Note: If you want to display an image that already exists on another website, you need only do this: 
<img src="http://www.starwars.com/yoda.jpg" />

Wiki function tags give you the power and flexibility to build & customize applications in your wiki.
See the \JotScript TagReference page for details.

Comments (7)

mark@kasayka.com@kasayka said, 10/09/2006:

Is there a way to position text within table cells, i.e. center it or right justify as opposed to the default left alignment?

mark@kasayka.com@kasayka said, 10/09/2006:

... in script view that is.  (WYSIWYG view has a way to center items, but it doesn't appear to change the wiki markup in script view)

guest said, 10/09/2006:

It would be really nice to add no-markup delimiters (similar to the verbatim environment in Latex) where it would be possible to use the symbols ~ * ! without interfering with the wiki markup.

Joannès
http://www.peoplewords.com

mark@kasayka.com@kasayka said, 10/09/2006:

You can use a backslash in front of a word to prevent it being formatted as a wikiword, e.g. Ronald McDonald as opposed to Ronald McDonald?

AndrewNorman@mesh1 said, 10/09/2006:

are there any wiki markups for line breaks, paragraphs, or creating an indent at the begininng of a paragraph?

admin@vvf said, 10/09/2006:

" See the JotScript TagReference page for details."

There is no page for TagReference

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guest said, 11/19/2006:

There doesn't seem to be any syntax for an internal reference (target/anchor). In another wiki format, I can add page name#anchor|description? to link to any header on any page I name within the wiki ("description" specifically names the link). I can't figure out if there is a similar syntax here, for instance to create a table of contents or "back to top" link, etc.

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