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 Wiki Wiki Sandbox 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.

Numbered list.| 0 Numbered list.

isbn 020171499X

| isbn 020171499X

ISBN 020171499X

| ISBN 020171499X

leading space. | leading space.

(Where 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'

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


Six Single Quotes: SixSingleQuotes or SixSingleQuotes

monospace preformatted stuff begins with a space

Hello

Hello '''Again'''

Link to Front Page

Horizontal line with front space:

---------

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.

A numbered list, which starts with a tab and any digit, is automatically numbered.

It is also called an ordered list.

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

Also this way:

Nested

Nested too

Yet one more

And another one

This is not another one

But this one is

Also the other way round:

Item 1

Item 2

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 :text. This is because it really is a term: definition block with the term being a .

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

www.c2.com


:text also seems to be the best format for poems (copy-and-paste from Great Poems List):

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 Html Tables are not supported). However, be wary of Tab Munging.

Person Pickles picked ------ -------------- Mary 0.35 peck Peter 1.00 peck



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