• <nowiki>Two single quotes</nowiki> for italics
• <nowiki>Three single quotes</nowiki> for bold
• <nowiki>Five single quotes</nowiki> for bold and italic.

Headings

Much as apostrophes are used to denote bold and italic, equals signs are used to denote headings. Thus:

<nowiki>= Heading 1 =</nowiki>
<nowiki>== Heading 2 ==</nowiki>
<nowiki>=== Heading 3 ===</nowiki>
<nowiki>==== Heading 4 ====</nowiki>
<nowiki>===== Heading 5 =====</nowiki>
<nowiki>====== Heading 6 ======</nowiki>
<nowiki>======= Heading 7 =======</nowiki>

This is what's produced by the above:

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Heading 5

Heading 6

Note those spaces between the equals signs and the text of the heading! It won't work otherwise.

Images

To display an image, insert the URL of the image. It will be displayed, like the following.

http://grault.net/grubstreet/grubstreet.gif

That's as much control as you can get over the image - there or not there. So please think carefully before displaying huge images on a page.

Lists

Unordered Lists

<nowiki>* First-level unordered list item</nowiki>
<nowiki>** Second-level unordered list item</nowiki>
<nowiki>*** Third-level unordered list item - etc.</nowiki>

This produces:

• First-level unordered list item
  • Second-level unordered list item
  • * Third-level unordered list item

Ordered Lists

<nowiki># Ordered list item</nowiki>
<nowiki>## Second-level ordered list item</nowiki>
<nowiki>### Third-level ordered list item</nowiki>
<nowiki>### Second item of the same level gets an incremented number</nowiki>
<nowiki>*** You can shift back to bullets if you need to</nowiki>

This produces: # Ordered list item ## Second-level ordered list item ### Third-level ordered list item ### Second item of the same level gets an incremented number

• * You can shift back to bullets if you need to

Definition Lists

<nowiki>;Term:Definition (indented)</nowiki>
<nowiki>;;Term (indented):Definition (indented two levels)</nowiki>
<nowiki>;;;Term (indented twice):Definition (indented to third level)</nowiki>

This produces: ;Term:Definition (indented) ;;Term (indented):Definition (indented two levels) ;;;Term (indented twice):Definition (indented to third level)

Indented Text

<nowiki>: Text to be indented (quote-block)</nowiki>
<nowiki>:: Text indented more</nowiki>
<nowiki>::: Text indented to third level</nowiki>

This produces:

 Text to be indented (quote-block)

 : Text indented more

 :: Text indented to third level

Preformatted Text

You can use the HTML <nowiki>

</nowiki> tag to present preformatted text, as in the following.

This is a chunk of

preformatted text. Lovely,

isn't it. Wiki links like this won't work in this kind of preformatted text.

You can also use spaces at the beginning of lines, like this.
This is the starting-spaces version of
preformatted text. Note that wiki links like
Text Formatting Examples do work here.



Miscellaneous rules

;<nowiki><nowiki></nowiki>:The nowiki tag will stop the wiki processing any tags or wiki names. For example, on this page in all the places where HTML tags are mentioned by name, they're nowiki'ed, otherwise they wouldn't be displayed. Click the editing link below to see examples in context.
;[backslash]:Text on multiple lines with a <nowiki>\</nowiki> at the end of each line will be joined to form a single line. Example:
<nowiki>This \</nowiki>

<nowiki>is \</nowiki>

<nowiki>four \</nowiki>

<nowiki>lines.</nowiki>
produces:
This \
is \
four \ 
lines.
See also: Using Images.








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