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Wiki Notepad Text Formatting

Formatting a Wiki is a little bit like formatting a Web page. You turn a feature on, then turn it off.

• Paragraphs are separated by blank lines. However, to get a space between paragraphs you can put a colon on a line all by itself, surrounded by two blank lines. This fools the Wiki into giving you a blank line. It looks like this:

• Formatting conventions:

• Italics: surround text with two single quotes-- ''Italicized text'' will look like this
• Bold: surround text with three single quotes-- '''Bolded text''' will look like this
• Fixed: surround text with three curly brackets--{{{Fixed width text}}} will look

• To create new pages surround words with double brackets. For example: [[Seven Domains]] will create a page with the name, "Seven Domains" after you save the page you are working on. If a page with that name already exists, the Wiki will link to that page. Otherwise, it will add the text "[add page]" next to the word. You can click on this link to create the page.

Note: Those of you familiar with the original wiki convention for creating hyperlinks will notice this wiki does not support WikiWords. Instead we use similar formatting to Wikipedia as described above.

• Links:

• To include an image file, put the file on a web server and insert the URL to that file:

This Wiki will display that image on the page:

• Headlines are indicated using equal signs:

• Bulleted lists use asterisk characters:

• Numbered lists use # instead of *.

• Indented text is preceded by : (the colon character).

• Preformatted text:

Hard rules (solid lines) are indicated with four dashes:

will look like this:

Wiki Parser Formatting Verification