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The site includes a number of advanced Text Formatting Rules. These give authors more choices about how they lay out pages. Experiment in the Wiki Sandbox.

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1. Extra Paragraph Options
2. Extra List Options
3. Escape Character
4. Including Paragraphs
5. Footnotes
6. Superscripts and Subscripts
7. Revision Marks
8. Small caps and Citations
9. Extra Entities
10. Labelled Paragraphs
11. Acronyms and abbreviations

Extra Paragraph Options

Indent paragraphs using the “->” start of line markup.

  ->This paragraph is indented once.
  
  -->This paragraph is indented twice.

Produces:

Align paragraphs using the “=>” and “=|” start of line markups.

  =>This paragraph is right aligned.
  =|This paragraph is centred.

Produces:

This paragraph is right aligned.

This paragraph is centred.

Make FAQ paragraphs using the “Q:” and “A:” start of line markup.

  Q:This paragraph is a question.
  
  A:This paragraph is the answer to the question.

Produces:

This paragraph is a question.

This paragraph is the answer to the question.

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Extra List Options

Teaser lists consist of a Wiki Word or free link followed by the first paragraph of the page being referenced. These use the “T” start of line markup.

  T*Text Formatting Rules

  T#Wiki Wiki Web

  T:Wiki Word

Produces:

• Text Formatting Rules: To experiment with the rules, please try editing the Wiki Sandbox.

1. Wiki Wiki Web: Wiki Wiki Web is an “open-editing” system where the emphasis is on the authoring and collaboration of documents rather than the simple browsing or viewing of them. The basic concept of a Wiki Wiki Web (or “wiki”) is that (almost) anyone can edit any page. …

Wiki Word

A Wiki Word is a set of two or more words run together where the first letter of each word is capitalized, sometimes known as “mixed case” or “camel case”. Wiki Words are used as link and page titles in a Wiki Wiki Web. In other words, you can just string any sequence of words together and capitalize the first letter of each word to make a valid Wiki Word.

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Escape Character

The back-tick “`” character overrides certain Pm Wiki behaviours.

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Including Paragraphs

Include a paragraph from another page using the “[[para:PmWiki/WikiWord#anchor]]” inline markup.

  [[para:PmWiki/TextFormattingRules]]

Produces: To experiment with the rules, please try editing the Wiki Sandbox.

  [[para:Main/HomePage#more]]

Produces: More information about Pm Wiki can be found at www.pmwiki.org.

Include a paragraph on the current page using the “[^#anchor^]” inline markup.

  [^#intro^]

Produces: The site includes a number of advanced Text Formatting Rules. These give authors more choices about how they lay out pages. Experiment in the Wiki Sandbox.

Create a cross-reference to a paragraph on the current page using the “[[#anchor#]]” inline markup. If the referenced paragraph contains Wiki Word or free link references, these are treated as plain text.

  [[#intro#]]

Produces: The site includes a number of advanced Text Formatting Rules. ...

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Footnotes

Wrap the text of a footnote in [^ … ^] markup.

  Write[^Footnotes are useful to make side remarks.^]
  in a paragraph body.

Produces: Write¹ in a paragraph body.

Display the footnotes with the [^#^] markup, which produces:

¹ Footnotes are useful to make side remarks.

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Superscripts and Subscripts

Write ^^superscript^^ and __subscript__ to produce ^superscript and _subscript respectively. For example,

  a^^2^^ + b^^2^^ = c^^2^^
  
  CH__3__`-CH__2__`-OH

Produces:

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Revision Marks

wiki sticky or Post-It™ noteWrite {+inserted text+} and {-deleted text-} to produce inserted text and remove deleted text respectively. The {=wiki sticky note=} markup adds a sticky note. The Printable Version of a page automatically removes Insertion and Deletion markup and hides the sticky note.

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Small caps and Citations

Write ;;small caps;; to produce small caps (some older browsers may not support this variant). Write '/This is a title/' to produce This is a title. Most browsers will render citations in italics; this can be controlled through a style sheet, to distinguish citations from emphasised text.

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Extra Entities

Enter	See
&Am;	Ā
&Em;	Ē
ℑ	Ī
&Om;	Ō
&Um;	Ū
&am;	ā
&em;	ē
&im;	ī
&om;	ō
&um;	ū
&f14;	¼
&f12;	½
&f34;	¾
+-	±

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Labelled Paragraphs

A labelled paragraph is a paragraph with a heading, set out from the surrounding text in a box. It can be useful to highlight a key message, for example. Create a labelled paragraph using the B: start of line markup.

  B:Labelled Text:This is the text of the labelled paragraph.
  See how it stands out.

Produces:

Writers can choose the alignment of the heading using spaces — “B: Labelled Text :” centres the label; and “B: Labelled Text:” right aligns the label.

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Acronyms and abbreviations

An acronym is a word made up of the initial letters of other words, like ANZAC. An abbreviation is a contraction of one or more words, like HTML. All acronyms are abbreviations; not all abbreviations are acronyms. For maximum browser compatibility, this site translates both into the <acronym> tag.

  [XML|eXtensible Markup Language]

Produces:

XML (To see the effect, move your mouse over it. And check out the printable version.)

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