KitzKikz: ExtendedWikiMarkup

KitzKikz: ExtendedWikiMarkup	RecentChanges PopularPages SearchPages
Home \| Trail - ExtendedWikiMarkup

Paragraphs

Lists automatically make up a new paragraph.
Every block of text (without empty lines) will form a paragraph.
Right align text by preceding the line with two greater-than signs (>>).
Center text by preceding the line with two back-wacks (\\).

This is right aligned text.

Another right line.

Centered text.

Another, just for good measure.

Indenting Text

Use spaces or tabs at the beginning of a line:

Three or more spaces at the beginning of a line will indent it.

One tab has the width of eight spaces, but it is difficult to enter a tab
using most browsers (��Option-Tab works on my Mac & Safari��)

Change indentation level by using more or less spaces at the line beginning, this is hopefully an intuitive method of indentation.

Some older browsers may not support the style sheets used by this indentation scheme.

Images

Images can be inlined into a page using square brackets around the absolute web address of the image file, like [http://www/image.png].

To have text flow around
to the right of an image,
put a space between the image
url and the closing bracket:
[http://example.com/image.png ]

To have text flow around

to the left of an image,
put a space between the image
url and the opening bracket:
[ http://example.com/image.png]

To center an image put a space both before and after the image url: [ http://example.com/image.png ]. This may not work in some browsers.

Specify an image's size by appending it to the url:

[http://www.example.com/image.png?x=200&y=100]
[http://www.example.com/image.png?width=200&height=100]

http://0/~kitzelh/w/images/kicker2.gif?x=120&y=90

Over the years, browsers have gotten better at placing images within and around text. However, the best solutions still use tables. See WikiTableMarkup?.

Tables

Tables have their own page dedicated to their markup.
See WikiTableMarkup?.

Anchors

Instead of linking from page to page, one can also create inner page links using so called anchors. Anchors are defined and referenced using the hash sign inside before square brackets. #[anchorname] for example creates an anchor, to reference it one must put both the hash sign and the anchor name inside the square brackets, like #anchorname.

Requiring a pagename in front of the anchor name to reference to it is some overhead but the only senseful way to create valid links. So to create links to an anchor on the current page one must write [CurrentPage#anchor].

Anchors and anchor references can and should also be entitled using quotation marks or the dash sign:

#[anchor "Title for this anchor"].
[#anchor2 "anchor2 jump link title"]

Lists

one can create lists by writing an asterisk at the beginning of a line

or enumerated lists by using a hash sign instead
instead of the asterisk the - minus character can be used sometimes
definition lists can be created using :: or ;: at the line start or as sublist

definition: explanation
anotherdef: another description

PRE-formatted text

   If  you  wish  text  to  appear "pre-formatted" then
 all you have to do is to start that paragraph using
    the code "<pre>" at the line start. End that
  paragraph again by writing "</pre>" at the beginning
of a line.

Most people will already know that markup, as it is a plain <HTML> tag, and so will feel very comfortable with it. But note that "<pre>" and "</pre>" must be written in all-lowercase, else it won't apply!

Text style

text can be made bold or bold
or italic
big and ��small��
up^set
typewriter like font

But there exist equivalents in old style WikiMarkup:

bold
bold and italic

And most of ��these�� things can be combined.

HTML comments

HTML-comments can be inserted using a  as it will be appended automatically and would appear as text
use this trick to hide informations from plain visitors (only somebody who edits a page can read comments)

InterWiki:Links

there exist abbreviations for concurrent wikis on the web
to reference a page from another wiki, just prepend the Wikis name and a colon before the remote WikiPageName:

that's why you shouldn't use the colon inside of square brackets

See also: