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Section editing is turned off by default, but can be turned on in your user preferences.

Text formatting markup

You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in italic, you include it in two single quotes like ''this''

preformatted text is done with
a space at the 
beginning of the line

Code Syntax Highlighting

<code ['language'|list] [n] >source code here</code>

Simple example - <code php> echo "Hello World"; </code>

echo "Hello World";

With line numbers - <code php n> echo "Hello World"; </code>

echo "Hello World";

Default code tag: <code> echo "Hello World"; </code>

echo "Hello World";

Supported languages: asp tcl cpp-qt caddcl nsis plsql fortran java5 tsql bnf ocaml-brief html4strict csharp sdlbasic actionscript c lisp vhdl oobas sql perl matlab ada cadlisp autoit cfm visualfoxpro xml apache lua thinbasic gml eiffel io latex javascript blitzbasic css applescript text php-brief cfdg d diff reg vb freebasic java inno objc ini smarty ocaml winbatch ruby pascal cpp scheme idl c_mac asm mysql smalltalk dos qbasic groovy bash python delphi robots div mirc sas vbnet mpasm php oracle8

Paragraphs

Mediawiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a newline with the HTML tag <br />.

Tables

Basic table format:

{|
|-
! header 1
! header 2
! header 3
|-
| row 1, cell 1
| row 1, cell 2
| row 1, cell 3
|-
| row 2, cell 1
| row 2, cell 2
| row 2, cell 3
|}

Produces:

HTML

Some HTML-Tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <code>, <div>, <span> and <font>.

Links

There are two types of supported links:

1. internal links to other pages in the wiki
2. external links to websites

To add an internal link, enclose the name of the page you want to link to in double square brackets. When you save the page, you'll see the new link pointing to your page. If the page exists already, it is displayed in blue, empty pages are displayed in red. Selflinks to the current page are not transformed in URLs but displayed in bold.

The first letter of the target page is automatically capitalized and spaces are represented as underscores (typing an underscore in the link will have a similar affect as typing a space, but is not recommended, since the underscore will also be shown in the text).

How to link

See Also

DocForge:Templates