Markup Quick Reference
This cheat sheet shows you a list of all commands to make your wiki more eye appealing.
- First column tells you what we use to do it.
- Second column tells you the description.
- The third column gives you an actual sample.
- The second row shows you the exact text to type for the sample.
| PATTERN |
DESCRIPTION |
SAMPLE |
|---|---|---|
| EXAMPLE SYNTAX |
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| '' | two apostrophes to toggle on or off italic text. | ITALIC |
| ''ITALIC'' | ||
| ''' | three apostrophes to toggle on or off bold text. | BOLD |
| '''BOLD''' | ||
| ''''' | five apostrophes to toggle on or off both bold and italic text. | BOLD and ITALIC |
| '''''BOLD and ITALIC''''' | ||
| __ | two underscore characters to toggle on or off underline. | UNDERLINE |
| __UNDERLINE__ | ||
| ^^ | two carrots to toggle on or off superscript. | NORMALSUPER |
| NORMAL^^SUPER^^ | ||
| -- | two hyphen characters to toggle on or off strike-through. | |
| --STRIKEOUT-- | ||
| ---- | four hyphens inserts a horizontal line. | |
| ---- | ||
| == | two equal signs toggle on or off a heading. | HEADING |
| ==HEADING== | ||
| === | three equal signs toggle on or off a sub-heading. | SUB-HEADING |
| ===SUB-HEADING=== | ||
| * | one asterisks does an indent with a bullet of the current sentence. |
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| * BULLET | ||
| ** | two asterisks does a double indent with a bullet of the current sentence. |
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| ** BULLET | ||
| # | one number sign does an indent with a number bullet of the current sentence. |
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| # BULLET | ||
| ## | two number signs does a double indent with a number bullet of the current sentence. |
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| ## BULLET | ||
| : | indent without a bullet for the current sentence. |
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| :INDENT | ||
| :: | indent twice without a bullet for the current sentence. |
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| ::INDENT | ||
| [SPACE] | first character a space on the line puts the text into a pre-formatted mono-space font. | monospaced |
| [SPACE]monospaced | ||
| $$ | embed HTML without running through the Wiki Markup engine. | NO SAMPLE |
| $$<html_code> | ||
| \ | Backslash character denotes the next character should not run through the Wiki Markup engine. | #DID NOT BULLET |
| \#DID NOT BULLET | ||
| [[ ]] | Text between the brackets can be internal or external link. | Welcome |
| [[Welcome]] | ||
| [[ | ]] | Pipe character on a link denotes everything to left is the link, everything to the right is alternate text. | Home Page |
| [[Welcome|Home Page]] | ||
For more information Basic Editing Tutorial starts to explain some of these in more detail.
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