Formatting Rules

Basic Formatting

• Avoid indenting paragraphs.
• Use blank lines to separate paragraphs.

Monospace

• Starting a line with space makes the whole line monospaced.

 This is an example of monospaced line.

Lists

• This is unnumbered list using tab-asterisk (If you can't type a TAB, use 8 spaces).

1. This is numbered list using tab-colon-asterisk.

Horizontal Line

• Four dashes at the left margin: ----

Emphasis

• Use doubled single-quotes ('') for emphasis (usually italics)
• Use tripled single-quotes (''') for strong emphasis (usually bold)
• Use five single-quotes ('), or triples within doubles, for some other emphasis
• Use Six single-quotes, or triples within triples, to BreakUp LongBumpyWords so that they do not become Wiki Names.
• You can also use them to separate suffixes (like 's') from Wiki Names.
• Emphasis can be used multiple times within a line, but cannot cross line boundaries.
• User "-_" and "_-" for underlining.

References

• Join Capitalized Words to make local references.
• You can also use double brackets to create wiki words, for example, the format would be [[Wiki Word]] [3]
• Precede URLs with "http:" to create links automatically as in: http://www.c2.com/
• Imbedded images preceding url with img: like this img:http://c2.com/sig/wiki.gif
• Other kinds of links are mailto:my@email.com, ftp://www.ftp.com, news://ggroup.com
• ISBN and Amazon(c) book link, use ISBN:0672320681 for example ISBN:0672320681

Footnotes

• You can use numeric and square bracket for a footnote. [2]
• At the bottom, just add square bracket at first chart of a line and the number.

Other Types of Formatting

• Three blank lines creates 1 blank line
• '==','===','====' at the start of line creates Topic
• Coloring text for red, green, blue and black are allowed but must be kept at minimum. Remember wiki is not about fancy presentation but more about quality content.
• Use alternate label to hide URL or hyperlink like this: Go to Cnn News !!!
• Use "|" to indent a paragraph (first level). You can also use "||" for second level. "|||" for third level indentation.
• Use also {italic} or {bold} to highlight longer texts or paragraphs.
• Precede url with image with Imageleft: or Imageright: to justify image.