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Ordered Lists#
Whitespace before pound/hash not allowed.# number list
More detail: Lists
Unordered Lists#
Whitespace before dash not allowed.- bullet list
More detail: Lists
Bold#
**bold**
More detail: Bold and Italics
Italics#
//italics//
More detail: Bold and Italics
Headings#
== Level 1 (Largest) === Level 2 ==== Level 3
or:
== Level 1 (Largest) == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ====
More detail: Headings
Internal and External Links#
[[my big page]] [[my big page|Go to my page]] [[http://www.wikicreole.org]] [[http://www.wikicreole.org|Visit the WikiCreole website]]
More detail: Links
Paragraphs#
(blank line makes paragraph)one paragraph next paragraph
More detail: Paragraphs
Linebreaks#
(consensus: treat line breaks as line breaks) (best practice: line continuations made with backslash at end of line)one paragraph and a linebreak
More detail: Linebreaks
Nowiki and preformatted in-line or block#
No wiki markup is interpreted between these characters.
{{{
preformatted
text with linesbreaks
}}}
{{{no wiki markup processing}}}
Watch out when copying the above example: Zero width space was used between the braces to circumvent the wiki formatting rules.
More detail: Preformatted And Nowiki
Placeholder#
also "Native Markup Block". When there is something advanced like extention code of the native wiki that is not supported in creole, a placeholder will show up, so users will not be confused seeing more than one syntax. (optional for wiki developers)<<x>>
Conflicts with OLPC image tag.
More detail: Placeholder
Images#
{{image name}}
[[some link|{{image name}}]]
[[http://example.com/|{{image name}}]]
The word Image could then be written in English or the language of that wiki.
More detail: Images
Horizontal Line#
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More detail: Horizontal Line