HelpOnBasicFormatting

This page contains basic information about MoinMin's formatting capabilities. It covers only a small amount of the formatting features but these are possibly covering about 99% of every-day problems. If you need more detailed information start with HelpOnEditing or HelpOnMoinWikiSyntax.

Basics

White space

Note that white space most of the time is ignored. This:

The   only       exception is white space at the beginning of a line.
This is not another line.

leads to this:

The only exception is white space at the beginning of a line. This is not another line.

For details how white space at the beginning of a line is processed see Indentation

Line breaks

Insert a line break with the <<BR>>. This:

This goes onto the first line<<BR>>This goes onto the second line.

leads to this:

This goes onto the first line
This goes onto the second line

Indentation

This:

no space
 Line 1
 Line 2
   Line 3
 Line 4

leads to this:

no space

• Line 1 Line 2
  • Line 3
  Line 4

}}}}

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