TextFormattingRules

A much better version if this is here: [1]

Paragraphs

• Do not indent paragraphs
• Words wrap and fill as needed
• Use blank lines as separators

Horizontal Line

• Four dashes at the left margin:

List:

 * asterisk for first level
 ** two asterisks for second level, etc.
 * Use * for bullet lists, # for numbered lists (mix at will) 
 * semicolon space term colon Definition for definition lists, for example:

Turns into:

• asterisk for first level
  • two asterisks for second level, etc.
• Use * for bullet lists, # for numbered lists (mix at will)
• semicolon space term colon Definition for definition lists, for example:

 ; This is the term:This is the definition.

Turns into:

This is the term

This is the definition.

• One line for each item
• Other leading whitespace signals preformatted text, changes font (see below).

Q: Are tables possible? Sure!

 ||Thing||Thing2||
 ||thing3||thing4||

turns into:

Fonts

• Indent with one or more spaces to use a monospace font:

 This is text in a monospaced font.
	This is indented with three spaces.This is not.

Indented Paragraphs (Quotes) : use colons at the beginning of the line Sample:

This is a section of quoted material. It can be as long as you like. The difference between this and the monospaced format, is that it should automatically wrap around. It's using the same machinery as the definition list.

Emphasis

• Use doubled single-quotes (’’) for italics.
• Use tripled single-quotes (’’’) for bold type.
• Use doubles within triples to make Bold Italic

References

• JoinCapitalizedWords? to make references to other pages on this Wiki.
• or put other links in double brackets, like this:

 [[Title Of Another Page]]

• To AvoidMakingReferencesToOtherPagesOnThisWiki, use an exclamation mark in front of the reference like this:

 !AvoidMakingReferencesToOtherPagesOnThisWiki

• Pluralize with SIX single quotes:

 CitadelHill''''''s

--> Most cities in Canada do not have CitadelHills

• Precede URLs with "http:", "ftp:", "gopher:", "mailto:", or "news:" to create links automatically as in: http://www.c2.com/
• ISBN 0-13-748310-4 (alternate, search) links to a bookseller.

Photos

• URLs which begin a line and end with .gif, .jpg, or .png are inlined, and the text after them on the same line, is shown as a caption.
• Gallery icons are formatted like this:
  
  then
  the linked page name, the link to the thumbnail image, then the caption.

 [[G]] BoomBoom http://gay.hfxns.org/pics/BoomBoom/thumb.jpg Drag Show 2007

• this will put the thumbnail in the right margin:

 [[EventIcon:TightRope]]

Mark-Up Language

• Don't bother - HTML doesn't work
• < and > are themselves
• The & characters will not work

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