TextFormattingExamples

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This page contains examples of UseModWiki's formatting rules. (See TextFormattingRules for explanations and samples of each rule.)

To see how any page is formatted, just follow the link "Edit text of this page" at the bottom of the page.

Plain Text:

This is a simple sample paragraph. Paragraphs can have line breaks internally. To separate paragraphs, use a blank line.

Here is another paragraph. Note that HTML-special characters like <, >, and & are not special in wiki. (But with recent versions of UseModWiki, special sequences like &lt; work in wiki.)

   Do not indent paragraphs, or your

text might look like this.

To create a horizontal line, type 4 or more minus/dash/hyphen (-) characters, like this:

Page, URL, Image, and InterWiki Links:

You can link to a page by removing the spaces between two or more words, and starting each word with a capital letter. For instance, WikiName and TextFormattingExamples are samples of page links.

Non-existing pages, like SmashingWordsTogetherExample, will be displayed with a question-mark for a link. The question mark link indicates the page doesn't exist yet--follow the link to create and edit the page.

Another way to link to/create a page is to put words between [[]]. For example:

Melton ZU, Liu Hanbing, Meng Jiayuan

Character "/" has a special meaning when it appears in Page names, such as Melton ZU/FaceBook. This is to refered to the FaceBook subpage of Melton ZU. TopPageExample illustrates this "advanced" concept.

Inline image:

Inline link: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?SandBox

InterWiki link: UseMod:InterWiki

Sample uses of the "" delimiter:

Separating an inline link or InterWiki link from adjacent punctuation such as in http://www.usemod.com/, UseMod:UseModWiki, or Wiki:TextFormattingRules.
Plural forms of page links, like UseModWikis.

Bold and Italic Text:

To mark text as bold or italic, you can use the HTML <b> and <i> tags. For example:

Sample bold, italic, and bold+italic.

UseModWiki also implements the old "quote style" of text formatting, which is used on several wikis. Briefly:

Two single quotes are italics, three single quotes are bold, five single quotes are bold and italic.

Lists:

Text for a bulleted list item.
- Text for second-level list.
  - Text for third level, etc.

Text for a numbered list item.
1. Text for second-level list.
  1. Text for third level, etc.
  2. A second item of the same level get's an incremented number.
  - And we can shift back to bullets if we want to for some reason.

Indented Text:

Text to be indented (quote-block)

Text indented more

: Text indented to third level

Term

Definition (indented)

Term (indented)

Definition (indented two levels)

Term (indented twice): Definition (indented to third level)

Preformatted Text

Pre-formatted section here.  No other link
  or format processing
is done on pre-formatted sections.
For instance, UseModWiki is not a link here.

and:

   This is the starting-spaces version of
   preformatted text.  Note that links like
   UseModWiki still work.

Miscellaneous rules:

[nowiki] The nowiki tag allows one to avoid the wiki rules for a part of text. For instance: RecentChanges is not a link here because I used the nowiki tag.
[backslash] Here is some text on multiple lines, treated as one line because of the backslashes.

Image Links rules:

Add a URL to link to under an image.

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