@Text Edit Reference

Intro

This page explains the formatting features. If you are not sure about one of the things explained here, just click the Edit Text link at the bottom the page and look at this text in source form and you will see how certain effects were achived.

Headings

• '!' at the start of a line makes a small heading
• '!!' at the start of a line makes a medium heading
• '!!!' at the start of a line makes a large heading

Emphasis

• Use doubled forward slash (!//) for emphasis (usually italics)
• Use doubled asterisks (!**) for strong emphasis (usually bold)
• Use doubled underscores (!__) to underline text (underlined)
• Mix them at will: **bold italics**
• Emphasis can be used multiple times within a line, but cannot cross line boundaries (use simple html below for longer emphasis)
• Single words can be emphasised with asterisk word asterisk: onewordonly but not *two words*

Paragraphs

• Don't indent paragraphs
• Words wrap and fill as needed
• Use blank lines as separators
• Four or more minus signs make a horizontal rule
• %%//% makes a linebreak (in headings and lists too)

Lists

• asterisk for first level (most text on this page is written as such lists)
  • asterisk-asterisk for second level, etc.
• Use * for bullet lists, # for numbered lists (mix at will)
• One line for each item
• Other leading whitespace signals preformatted text, changes font.
• See Misc section below for dt/dd lists

Fonts

• two caret characters (~) before and after a word use a smaller font
• Indent with one or more spaces to use a monospace font:

 this is a poem
 about monospacing
 nothing rhymes with poem
 nothing rhymes with monospacing

Quotes

• To place a quote in a separate gray box use use two greater signs (>) in before and two littler signs (<) after the text (this can span multiple lines).

Someone said: To be or not to be, that's the question.

Some simple HTML Tags are supported

• < b > for bold
• < u > for underline
• < i > for italic
• < blockquote > or < quote > for quotes in gray boxes as described above

• < pre > for preformatted text
• < small > for small font text
• —(three or more dashes) in a line by themselves or a < hr > anywhere will give you a horizontal line

Links/References

• Hyperlinks to other pages within the Wiki are made by placing the page name in double square brackets: this is a page link[?]
• Hyperlinks to external pages are done like this: www.wcsb.org/
• You can name the links by providing a name, a bar (|) and then the hyperlink or pagename: PhpWiki home page - the front page
• Links to Elias sessions can simply be made by putting the text //Session #9999// into square brackets, like Session #1105.
• You can suppress linking to old-style references and URIs by preceding the word with a '!', e.g. !NotLinkedAsWikiName, http://not.linked.to/
• [[1]], [[2]], [[3]], [[4]] refer to remote footnote references. Click EditLinks on the edit form to enter a list of URLs. These differ from the newer linking scheme; references are unique to a page.
• Also, the old way of linking URL's is still supported: precede URLs with "http:", "ftp:" or "mailto:" to create links automatically as in: http://c2.com/
• URLs ending with .png, .gif, or .jpg are inlined if in square brackets, by themselves:

Advanced Link Magic

• If you want to create a link that simulates the browser's back button, you can create a link to a pseudo-url magic://back like this go back
• A link anchor within a page (the <a name="something"> style) can be created as magic://anchor:something:
• To link to an anchor within a dictionary page you will need to use the actual URL for that page (there is no shortlinking to an anchor) like this: www.blueflash.cc/wiki/index.php?%40TextEditReference#something

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!Advanced Stuff

Definition/Term-Lists

• semicolon-term-colon-definition for definition lists:

term here

definition here, as in the <DL><DT><DD> list

Indented Paragraphs

• semicolon-colon – indents text

this is an indented block of text

Other HTML Mark-Up Language

• Don't bother
• < and > are themselves (except for the simple tags above)
• The & characters will not work
• If you really must use HTML, your system administrator can enable this feature. Start each line with a bar (|). Note that this feature is disabled by default.