Help:Editing
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Basic text formatting
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You can emphasize text by putting two apostrophes on each side. Three apostrophes will emphasize it strongly. Five apostrophes is even stronger. |
You can ''emphasize text'' by putting two apostrophes on each side. Three apostrophes will emphasize it '''strongly'''. Five apostrophes is '''''even stronger'''''. |
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A single newline has no effect on the layout. But an empty line starts a new paragraph. |
A single newline has no effect on the layout. But an empty line starts a new paragraph. |
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You can break lines |
You can break lines<br> without starting a new paragraph.<br> Please use this sparingly. |
Links
You will often want to make clickable links to other pages.
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Here's a link to a page named Official position. You can even say official positions and the link will show up correctly. You can put formatting around a link. Example: Wikipedia. The weather in London is a page that doesn't exist yet. You can create it by clicking on the link. |
Here's a link to a page named [[Official position]]. You can even say [[official position]]s and the link will show up correctly. You can put formatting around a link. Example: ''[[Wikipedia]]''. [[The weather in London]] is a page that doesn't exist yet. You can create it by clicking on the link. |
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You can make an external link just by typing a URL: http://www.google.com You can give it a title: Google Or leave the title blank: [1] |
You can make an external link just by typing a URL: http://www.google.com You can give it a title: [http://www.google.com Google] Or leave the title blank: [http://www.google.com] |
Organizing your writing
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Section headings Headings organize your writing into sections. The Wiki software can automatically generate a table of contents from them.
Using more equals signs creates a subsection.
Don't skip levels, like from two to four equals signs. Start with two equals signs; don't use single equals signs. |
== Section headings == Headings organize your writing into sections. The Wiki software can automatically generate a table of contents from them. === Subsection === Using more equals signs creates a subsection. ==== A smaller subsection ==== Don't skip levels, like from two to four equals signs. Start with two equals signs; don't use single equals signs. |
marks the end of the list.
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* ''Unordered lists'' are easy to do: ** Start every line with a star. *** More stars indicate a deeper level. *A newline *in a list marks the end of the list. *Of course you can start again. |
A newline marks the end of the list.
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# Numbered lists are also good: ## Very organized ## Easy to follow A newline marks the end of the list. #New numbering starts with 1. |
--AWC 16:07, 14 January 2006 (CST)
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