Text Formatting Rules

• Do not indent paragraphs

• Words wrap and fill as needed

• Use blank lines as separators

• Four or more hyphens at the beginning of a line make a horizontal rule

• tab asterisk -- for first level
  • tab tab asterisk for second level, etc.

• Use * for bullet lists, 1. for numbered lists (mix at will) - always use 1., it will be renumbered automagically.

• tab term colon tab Definition for definition lists, for example:

This is the term

This is the definition.

• One line for each item

• Other leading whitespace signals preformatted text, changes font

• Indent with one or more spaces to use a monospace font:

 This is text in a monospaced font.
   This is indented with three spaces.

Indented Paragraphs (Quotes)

• tab space colon tab - often used (with emphasis) for quotations.

This is quoted.

• If you are going to ConvertSpacesToTabs, you need to type nine spaces, a colon, and then three spaces before the text.

• Use doubled single-quotes ('') for emphasis (usually italics)

• Use tripled single-quotes (''') for strong emphasis (usually bold)

• Use five single-quotes ('), or triples within doubles, for some other kind of emphasis (usually bold italic)

• Emphasis can be used multiple times within a line, but cannot span line boundaries

• JoinCapitalizedWords to make references to other pages on this Wiki.

• Use SixSingleQuotes to avoid making such links.

• Precede URLs with "http:", "ftp:", "gopher:", "mailto:", or "news:" to create links automatically as in: http://www.c2.com/

• URLs ending with .gif or .jpg are inlined

• ISBN 0-13-748310-4 links to a bookseller. (The pattern is: "ISBN", optional colon, space, ten digits with optional hyphens, the whole thing optionally in square brackets. The last digit can be an "X".) We are an Amazon Associate.

• I S B N: 0123456789 becomes ISBN 0123456789
• [I S B N 0123456789] becomes ISBN 0123456789
• [I S B N: 123-456-789-X] becomes ISBN 123-456-789-X

• < and > are themselves

• The & characters will not work

• When a rule says "tab," it wants a tab character without extra spaces.

• Use italics sparingly when possible, as they're harder to read.