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[[meta title="Help on formatting wiki pages"]]

Text on this wiki is, by default, written in a form very close to how you
might write text for an email message. This style of text formatting is
called [[MarkDown]], and it works like this:

Leave blank lines between paragraphs.

You can \**emphasise*\* or \*\***strongly emphasise**\*\* text by placing it
in single or double asterisks.

To create a list, start each line with an asterisk:

* "* this is my list"
* "* another item"

To make a numbered list, start each line with a number (any number will
do) followed by a period:

1. "1. first line"
2. "2. second line"
2. "2. third line"

To create a header, start a line with one or more `#` characters followed
by a space and the header text. The number of `#` characters controls the
size of the header:

# # h1
## ## h2
### ### h3
#### #### h4
##### ##### h5
###### ###### h6

To create a horizontal rule, just write three or more dashes or stars on
their own line:

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To quote someone, prefix the quote with ">":

> To be or not to be,
> that is the question.

To write a code block, indent each line with a tab or 4 spaces:

	10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
	20 GOTO 10

To link to an url or email address, you can just put the
url in angle brackets: <<http://ikiwiki.info>>, or you can use the
form \[link text\]\(url\)

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In addition to basic html formatting using [[MarkDown]], this wiki lets
you use the following additional features:

* To link to another page on the wiki, place the page's name inside double
  square brackets. So you would use `\[[WikiLink]]` to link to [[WikiLink]].

[[if test="enabled(smiley) and smileys" then="""
* Insert [[smileys]] and some other useful symbols. :-)
"""]]

[[if test="enabled(shortcut) and shortcuts" then="""
* Use [[shortcuts]] to link to common resources.

	\[[wikipedia War\_of\_1812]]
"""]]

[[if test="enabled(toc)" then="""
* Add a table of contents to a page:

	\[[toc ]]
"""]]


[[if test="enabled(meta)" then="""
* Change the title of a page:

	\[[meta title="full page title"]]
"""]]

[[if test="enabled(inline) and blog" then="""
* Create a [[blog]] by inlining a set of pages:

	\[[inline pages="blog/*"]]
"""]]

[[if test="enabled(template) and templates" then="""
* Create and fill out [[templates]] for repeated chunks of
  parameterized wiki text.
"""]]