HelpOnBasicFormatting

Contents

  1. HelpOnBasicFormatting
    1. Basics
      1. White space
      2. Line breaks
      3. Indentation
      4. Titles
    2. Numbered Lists
    3. Bulleted Lists
    4. Tables
    5. APL Code
    6. Links
      1. Page names or CamelCasing or internal links
      2. External links
      3. Links within a page
      4. Links to attachments
      5. Links to images
    7. Images
    8. Attachments
    9. Table of contents

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

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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

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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

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This: 

no space
 Line 1
 Line 2
   Line 3
 Line 4

leads to this:

no space

  • Line 1 Line 2
    • Line 3
    Line 4

Titles

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The different levels depend on the number of "=" signs: 

= level 1 =
== level 2 ==
=== level 3 ===
==== level 4 ====

Notes:

  • The first "=" char must be the first character on a line.
  • To the right of the very last "=" char their must not be any white space.

A word of advice: try to avoid using level 4 headers, and never use headers of level 5 and 6!

Numbered Lists

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 1. level1-1
 1. level1-2
   1. level2-1
   1. level2-2

  Normally this interrupts and therefore restart the numbering 

 1.#3 level1-3

leads to this:

  1. level1-1
  2. level1-2
    1. level2-1
    2. level2-1
    • Normally this interrupts and therefore restart the numbering
  3. level1-3

Bulleted Lists

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 * level1-1
 * level1-2
   * level2-1
   * level2-2
 * level1-3

leads to this:

  • level1-1
  • level1-2
    • level2-1
    • level2-2
  • level1-3

Tables

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This: 

|| '''col1''' || '''col2''' || '''col3''' ||
|| cell A1 || cell B1 || cell C1 ||
|| cell A2 || cell B2 || cell C2 ||
|| cell A2 || cell B2 || cell C2 ||

leads to this:

col1

col2

col3

cell A1

cell B1

cell C1

cell A2

cell B2

cell C2

cell A2

cell B2

cell C2

Notes:

  • The first "|" char must be the first character on a line.
  • To the right of the very last "|" char their must not be any white space.

APL Code

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This: 

    {⍵/⍳⍴,⍵}
    {{⍵/⍨2=+⌿0=⍵∘.|⍵}⍳⍵}

leads to what you are looking at!

Page names or CamelCasing or internal links

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Names of pages in a wiki more often than not use CamelCasing as in the name of this page: HelpOnBasicFormatting. CamelCase names are automatically converted into links within the realm of the current wiki.

If a page name contains blanks surround them with [[ and ]]. Therefore this: 

[[Page name]]

leads to this: Page name

Alternatively with an optional link text: 

[[Page name | link to some page]]

leads to this: link to some page

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This: 

  http://sandbox.aplwiki.com

results in this: http://sandbox.aplwiki.com

Alternatively you can use an optional link text: 

  [[http://sandbox.aplwiki.com | Link to the APL wiki sandbaox]]

results in this: Link to the APL wiki sandbaox

Links within a page

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You can link to another part of a page, but only to titles. For example, on a page "MyPage" with a level 3 title "My address" you could create a link somewhere on that page with 

  [[ MyPage#My address]]

which leads to MyPage#My address.

Alternatively you can use an optional link text. This: 

  [[ MyPage#My address | Link to my address]]

results in Link to my address.

See Attachments

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Before you start linking to an image first upload it as an attachment; click the "Attachments" button and act accordingly.

Once the image is uploaded it is, among other things, available for link purposes. Since it is always associated with a certain page you can refer to it by its simple filename. For example, a link to the file "APL-Logo.png" which is attached to this page can be created with: 

  [[attachment:APL-Logo.png]]

which leads to APL-Logo.png.

Alternatively with an optional link text as in: 

  [[attachment:APL-Logo.png | download the APL logo ]]

which leads to link to the attachment

For how to display an image within a page (rather than linking to it) see Images.

Images

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First upload the image(s) as an attachment; click the "Attachments" button and act accordingly.

Once the image is uploaded and attached to a page it can be used, either in order to display it within the page or for download (= linking, see there). Since it is always associated with a certain page you can refer to it by its simple filename. Since linking to an image is discussed in the #Links to images chapter here we attempt to actually display the image. 

  {{attachment:APL-Logo.png || height=40,width=40}}

which leads to APL-Logo.png

Tables are sometimes useful to arrange images. This: 

|| {{attachment:trash.bmp || {{attachment:trash.bmp || {{attachment:trash.bmp ||
|| {{attachment:trash.bmp || {{attachment:trash.bmp || {{attachment:trash.bmp ||

leads to this: trash.bmp

trash.bmp

trash.bmp

trash.bmp

trash.bmp

trash.bmp

trash.bmp

Attachments

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Before you start linking to an attachment (for download purposes, for example) first upload the attachment; click the "Attachments" button and act accordingly.

Once the attachment is uploaded it is available for link purposes. Since it is always associated with a certain page you can refer to it by its simple filename. For example, a link to the file "sample.txt" which is attached to this page can be created with: 

  [[attachment:sample.txt]]

which leads to sample.txt.

Alternatively with an optional link text as in: 

  [[attachment:sample.txt | link to the attachment]]

which leads to link to the attachment

Table of contents

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Insert this right after the = title = part of your page: 

    <<TableOfContents>>