Text Formatting Examples

Click on EditText (it's ok to try, really! :) to see the formatting stuff, but please don't change the page - use WikiWikiSandbox for testing these rules.

A few tabulated examples:

The formatted result. | The raw text

strong man. | strong man.

Strong Man | Strong Man

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Italicized text here. | ''Italicized text here.''

Strong emphasized | '''Strong emphasized'''

Strong italic text:-) | '''Strong ''italic text'':-) '''

• Bullet pointed. | * Bullet pointed.

1. Numbered list.| <tab>0 Numbered list.

ISBN: 020171499X | isbn 020171499X

ISBN: 020171499X | ISBN 020171499X

leading space. |  leading space. 

(Where <tab> denotes a tab character.)

two single quotes

now two single quotes and three single quotes (total of 5)

Bold text -- three single quotes

Bold italic text -- two plus three single quotes Quoted bold italic maybe?

two quotes -- Italic 2 plus

three quotes -- BOLD 3 equals

Italic Bold 5

'Trying four quotes'

'Trying many quotes'

WikiWikiWeb WikiWikiWeb WikiWikiWeb

Note that "mind your p's and q's" is awkward to produce.

SixSingleQuotes: SixSingleQuotes or SixSingleQuotes

monospace preformatted stuff begins with a space

Hello

Hello Again

Link to FrontPage

Horizontal line with front space:

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Horizontal lines without front space:

• An unnumbered list begins with an asterisk.
• A list member
  • Nested list members without tabs.
    • You can now nest beyond four deep...
      • ...although it becomes hard...
        • ...to read and edit.

1. A numbered list, which starts with a tab and any digit, is automatically numbered.
2. It is also called an ordered list.

• The various kinds of lists can be nested by using extra tabs.

1. Also this way:
   1. Nested
   2. Nested too
   3. Yet one more
   4. And another one
   5. This is not another one
2. But this one is

• Also the other way round:

  1. Item 1
  2. Item 2
  3. 3 metI

• And like this.

  • Nested item.
    • Even more nested item.
      • Even more nested item.
    • I've flown the coop!

term

definition -- formed with Tab-Stuff-Colon-Tab

another term

and its buddy definition

This is a block quote. It looks like <TAB><SPACE>:<TAB>text. This is because it really is a term: definition block with the term being a <SPACE>.

Image in this Wiki (just the URL to the image file):

<TAB><SPACE>:<TAB>text also seems to be the best format for poems (copy-and-paste from GreatPoemsList):

William Shakespeare, The Tempest act IV scene 1.

Edit (but don't change, please) this page to see the formatting stuff.

'single quote' "double quote" 3 single quotes

If you indent your paragraph, it will be monospaced and won't line-wrap. This is a very common mistake, but trying to rectify it by inserting new lines into the paragraph doesn't work.

Example:

Our [many] revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,

The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

Monospaced text is also handy for showing tables (since HtmlTables are not supported). However, be wary of TabMunging.

Person  Pickles picked
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Mary    0.35 peck
Peter   1.00 peck

See also TipForTypingTab

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