TextFormattingRules

Photos

Photos are all fixed width. Sorry.

• The full width of the screen is 740px.
• Half is thus 370px

Paragraphs

• Do not indent paragraphs
• Always use blank lines between paragraphs

Dates

Write dates in ISO 8601 format only, like this: 2012–10–23. They will be automatically reformatted for display as October 23, 2012. Write months as 2012–10.

Horizontal Line

Four dashes by themselves on a line:

 ----

Lists

 * 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).

Tables

 ||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.

Quotes

 : use colons at the beginning of the lineSample: 

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

References to other pages: JoinCapitalizedWords? to make references to other pages on this Wiki.

Put footnotes in double curly brackets {{like this}}

• 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

• 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 https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/BoomBoom/thumb.jpg Drag Show 2007

• this will put the thumbnail in the right margin:

 [[EventIcon:TightRope]]

Mark-Up Language

• It's called UseMod?
• HTML doesn't work
• < and > are themselves

A much better version of this is here.

This page is part of GoodStyle tips for editing and is in the HowtoCategory.