Formatting Rules used in this wiki

This guide is intended to help you format the text for your page properly. This wiki supports very basic text formatting rules. Proper use of line breaks, paragraph breaks, and simple layout will result in a very clean web site.

Simple formatting

To make text italic, simply enclose it in two single-quotation marks, ie ''some italic text''
To make text bold, simply enclose it in two star characters, ie **some bold text**

Headings

To make a heading, simply type the text on a line by itself, and enclose it within an equals sign and a single space, ie = Some title text =

Lists

To make a bulletpoint (for example, a list), start a newline with a star character, followed by a single space, ie * A bullet
To indent your list, place a <ul> on the line before the list, and a </ul> after the list.

Links

This wiki does not need to use CamelCase links, so feel free to include spaces in your page titles and links.
You can construct a link to another page on the site by enclosing the name of the target page in square brackets, ie [Home]
If you need to use different text for the actual link, you can do so like this: [Home:A link to the homepage]
If you want to link to an external site, enclose the URL in double brackets: [[http://www.google.com/]]
Again, if you need to use different link text, do so like this: [[http://www.google.com/:A great search engine]]

Rulers

Four hyphen characters on a line by themselves will form a horizontal ruler, ie ----

Tables

Some primitive support for tables is provided. Each line becomes one row in the table, and each cell's boundary is marked by a single pipe character, ie |. No leading or trailing spaces must be used on each line. The table must have a single empty line above and below it or else the table will not form properly. The following code:
|Table|Example| |1|foo| |2|bar| |3|qux|

produces this table:

Table	Example
1	foo
2	bar
3	qux

Images and Files

You can use the file upload tool to store files (such as images and downloadable documents) on the web site. Once uploaded they will appear in the Files page, and you'll be able to insert images (.jpg/.gif/.png files) into web pages by inserting the file's name into the {img:filename.jpg} tag. You can create a download link to any file using the {link:filename.pdf} tag.

Advanced formatting

Go ahead and use HTML tags if needed, but be aware that inadvertant use of the Wiki formatting codes above within your HTML markup may cause undesired results.

Escape sequences

If you need to properly show the characters used in the Wiki Formatting, you can either use HTML entity codes (ie. |), or you can break ("escape") the pattern matching routines by inserting two percent symbols (ie. %%) into the text. For an example, see the source text of this page, since the same trick is done to demonstrate some of the formatting rules shown above.