Text Formatting Rules

Creating a new Wiki page

Method 1. Writing a WikiWord automatically creates a link to an editable the page.

• Edit a page (by Edit button or by double clicking a page)
• Simply type any WikiWord ( which is a joined capitalized word like-> ThisIsWikiWord ) in the page and click Save.
• The WikiWord becomes a hyperlink to create a new page.

 Examples:  ThisIsWikiPage,  MyVacation,  MyAlbumIn2005

Method 2. Use [[ and ]] to enclose just about any page topic

 Examples:  [[The Old Wise Man of Fantasia]]
            [[2006-02-15 Birth of my cousin]]

Method 3. Use [= and ] works similar to method 2

 Examples:  [=The Old Wise Man of Fantasia]
            [=2006-02-15 Birth of my cousin]

Basic Formatting

Paragraphs [1]

• Avoid indenting paragraphs.
• Use blank lines to separate paragraphs.
• You can use {br} to insert line break within a paragraph. NEW!

Monospace

• Starting a line with space makes the whole line monospaced.

 This is an example of a monospaced line.

Lists

• This is unnumbered list using space-asterisk
• You can also use tab-space. (If you can't type a TAB, use 8 spaces). Or better yet just use 1 space.

Numbered List example:

1. This is numbered list using tab-colon-asterisk.
2. You can start a line with :*
3. or :* or 1. for lists.

Horizontal Line

• Four dashes at the left margin: ----

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 emphasis
• Use Six single-quotes, or triples within triples, to BreakUp LongBumpyWords so that they do not become Wiki Names.
• You can also use them to separate suffixes (like 's') from Wiki Names.
• Emphasis can be used multiple times within a line, but cannot cross line boundaries.
• Use "-_" and "_-" for underlining.

References

• JoinCapitalizedWords to make local references. If the page is NOT YET created the link will LookLikeThis.
• You can also use double brackets to create wiki words, for example, the format would be Wiki Word [3]
• Precede URLs with "http:" to create links automatically as in: http://www.c2.com/
• Other kinds of links are mailto:my@email.com, ftp://www.ftp.com, news://ggroup.com
• ISBN and Amazon(c) book link, use ISBN:0672320681 for example ISBN:0672320681

Imbedded Images

• Imbedded images preceding url with img: like this:

  img:http://c2.com/sig/wiki.gif  or image:http://c2.com/sig/wiki.gif

Referencing files relative to the document root. (Local reference shortcut) NEW!!12/2005

• Note: local: is not followed by slash characters. For example, writing...

1. link local file examples

 
   writing... local:wiki.css      results to this link ->  wiki.css
   writing... local:icon.png      results to this link-->  icon.png
   If file is sub folder , simply write like this --> local:images\icons\icon.png 

 2. local image examples    
 
   writing... image:local:icon.png results to this -->   
   writing... imageleft:local:icon.png and  imageright:local:icon.png work as follows...

Footnotes

• You can use numeric and square bracket for a footnote. [2]
• At the bottom, just add square bracket at first character of a line and the number.

Other Types of Formatting

• Three blank lines creates 1 blank line
• '==','===','====' at the start of line creates Topic
• Coloring text for red, green, blue and black are allowed but must be kept at minimum. Remember wiki is not about fancy presentation but more about quality content.
• Use ">" to indent a paragraph (first level). You can also use ">>" for second level. ">>>" for third level indentation or block quote. Formerly, the pipe character '|' was used for this purpose. Pipe character is now used for tables. see below.
• Use also {italic} or {bold} to highlight longer texts or paragraphs.
• Precede url with image with Imageleft: or Imageright: or Imagecenter:to justify image.

Alternate Labels to Links and Wiki Words

• Use alternate label to hide URL or hyperlink like this...

 [Go to Cnn News|http://cnn.com]

• Use alternate label to hide WikiWord like this:

 [Go to my Wiki homepage=wikiasp]

InterWiki Links

 [My Website=ElreySite::VacationPage]   -> Goes to the page VacationPage of database ElreySite using My Website as link alias.
 [My Website=ElreySite::]               -> Goes to default start page of database ElreySite using My Website as link alias. 
 [ElreySite::VacationPage]              -> Goes to the page VacationPage of database ElreySite using no link alias.
 [ElreySite::]                          -> Goes to default start page of database ElreySite using no link alias.

Clickable Images

• Use same technique above to create clickable (note the space aroung the img link)

 [ img:http://c2.com/sig/wiki.gif |http://c2.com]

Tables

• NEW! - Use '||' character to construct tables. Each row can have a color scheme by using '|!', '!|', or '!!'. Each row need not end with '||'. For example

Sample HTML (NEW!)

If you know HTML, you can also enter it and tailor your wiki pages to your heart's desire.

This is useful for imbedding Source Code and programs. Search Google for the utility

CopySourceAsHTML is a utility that preserves syntax coloring
 

Collapsible Panel

5/2006 - uses the syntax [Drop#] ..