WikiMarkup

Each page inside a WikiWikiWeb can be edited easily, and as writing a page should be very easy to accomplish, there are only a few rules, which are not all that senseless and annoying as the ones of the HyperTextMarkupLanguage.

Paragraphs

separate paragraphs inside the text with empty lines
use three percent signs %%% to enforce a line break
if you prepend text with spaces or tabs it will get indented

!! Headlines

use an exclamation mark ! at the beginning of a line to create a small headline
!! for medium
!!! for large headlines

text style

if you want to emphasize text enclose it in two single-quotes '' (usually looks italic)
text gets bold with two underscores __ (or if enclosed with two asterisks **)
to make text big enclose it in hash characters ##
you can get smaller text using "ЕЕ" likewise
a typewrite like font will be used if you begin a line with two equal == signs

horizontal line

To create a line use four minus characters on a new line:
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Lists

one can create lists by writing an asterisk at the beginning of a line
1. or enumerated lists by using a hash sign instead
2. instead of the asterisk the - minus character can be used sometimes
definition lists can be created using :: at the line start or as sublist

definition

explanation

anotherdef

another description
there are some more rules
1. lists should be separated with an empty line from other text
2. put a space behind the list bullet (*, #, -, ::)
3. a space in front of a list bullet escapes it (the line won't become a list entry)

HyperLinks

any valid internet address (starting with http://) like http://www.example.com/ inside the text will be made clickable automatically

enclose a www address or a WikiLink inside square brackets [freshmeat] and assign it a neat title using quotation marks or the | character

[title | http://example.com]

if you don't want a WikiWord or a http://www-address (or [anything] inside square brackets) to become a HyperLink then just prepend it with a exclamation mark

!NoHyperLink
![no hyperlink], !http://nolink.org/

Tables with |

just enclose	things with the dash	character
to build a	table structure
browsers usually	leave out the missing	cells

|#|Name|Address|
|1|Smb Name|Smb Address|

Please always put an empty line before and after a table, so it stands out from other text in its own paragraph.

Pictures

to include an image into a page enclose its absolute www-address in square brackets, like [title | http://example.com/picture.jpg]