Basic Formatting
Writing Text
---- = Make a horizontal ruler. Extra '-' is ignored.
\\ = Force a line break, \\\=force line break and clear.
// comment = markup comment line (nothing is rendered)
[link] = Creates a hyperlink to an internal wiki page called 'link'.
[alias|link] = Creates a hyperlink to an internal wiki page called 'link', but displays the text 'alias' to the user instead of 'link'.
[1]= Makes a reference to a footnote numbered 1.
[#1] = Marks the footnote number as 1.
[[link]= Creates text '[link]'.
~[link~] = Creates text '[link]' by escaping the square brackets with the tilde character.
!1 heading = Large heading with text 'heading'
!2 heading = Medium heading with text 'heading'
!3 heading = Small heading with text 'heading'
!4 heading = Smaller heading with text 'heading'
!5 heading = Smallest heading with text 'heading'
''text'' = Prints 'text' in italic.
__text__ = Prints 'text' in bold.
{{text}} = Prints 'text' in monospaced font.
^^text^^ = Prints 'text' in superscript.
,,text,, = Prints 'text' in subscript.
* text = Makes a bulleted list item with 'text'
# text = Makes a numbered list item with 'text'
;term:ex = Makes a definition for 'term' with the explanation 'ex'
Hyperlinks
Links can also be direct URLs starting with http://, ftp://, mailto:, https://, or news:. These link points to an external entity.
For example, to point to the official Sun Java homepage, use [http://java.sun.com], which is changed to http://java.sun.com/
or [Java home page|http://java.sun.com], and then is changed to Java home page.
or [Java home page|http://java.sun.com], and then is changed to Java home page.
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System administrators can also allow custom schemes and custom URL formats by configuring it: Application Configuration
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Preformatted Text
To add pre-formatted text (like code), use three consecutive braces ({) to open a block, and three consecutive braces (}) to close a block.
Quotes
If you want to quote some text (for example, a previous comment written by someone else), add a greater sign (>) in front of that text.
>> This is a very old comment.
> This is a question that I quote.
And this is my answer.
This is a very old comment.
This is a question that I quote.
And this is my answer.
Comments
You can use ';:' to add a short comment to other people's text by including an empty 'term' in the definition, as shown next:
;:''Comment here.''
This will result in the following:
Comment here.