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Wiki formatting for Forum pages

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Tue, 01/01/2008 - 05:21 — CurtB as user1

We've added some basic MediaWiki formatting capabilities:

You write You get
''italic'' italic
'''bold''' bold
'''''bold-italic''''' bold-italic
=Heading 1=
==Heading 2==
===Heading 3===

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3
(space)some preformatted text 
some preformatted text
[http://drupal.org Drupal] Drupal
* List 1
* List 2
** List 2.1
  • List 1
  • List 2
    • List 2.1
# List 1
# List 2
## List 2.1
  1. List 1
  2. List 2
    1. List 2.1
Main text<ref>Footnote text</ref>

Main text(footnote number)
<references/>

1. Generated footnotes from earlier "<ref>...</ref>" entries
[[Welcome to Appropedia]] (references to Appropedia wiki pages)

Welcome to Appropedia
[[Welcome to Appropedia| Appropedia main page]] (references to wiki with link text)

Appropedia main page
[?:help-forum Forums help] (relative URL links with forums, with link text)

Forums help

Still need to add: The <nowiki> option...

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  • <ref>, </ref> around notes. <nowiki>, </nowiki> around text not to be formatted.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <sup> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <big> <small> <img> <ref> </ref> <references> <nowiki> </nowiki>
  • Allow MediaWiki syntax (limited).
  • Images can be added to this post.
  • Handle "[[Page]]" (wikis), [http://... link text] (exts)
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • You may use [inline:xx] tags to display uploaded files or images inline.
  • You can use context links in the text to create context-related links to pages or sites that provide additional information about a word or phrase.

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