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# Help on formatting text
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
You can also make the first two levels of heading by underlining text with
equals or dash:
heading 1
=========
heading 1
=========
heading 2
---------
heading 2
---------
To create a horizontal rule, just write three or more dashes or stars on
their own line:
----
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 another page on the wiki, place the page's name inside double
square brackets, so you would use `\[[WikiLink]]` to link to [[WikiLink]].
To link to any other web page, or to an email address, you can just put the
url in angle brackets: <<http://ikiwiki.info>>, or you can use the
form \[link text\]\(url\)
----
You can also use [[PreProcessorDirective]]s to do additional cool stuff.
[[if test="enabled(smiley)" then="""
Also, because this wiki has the smiley plugin enabled, you can
insert [[smileys]] and some other useful symbols.
"""]]