This Wiki uses a form of Structured Text to support easy text formatting of page content. This page provides a guide to some of the most useful Structured Text conventions. For more detailed help, see Text Formatting Rules or Structured Text Guide .
Note: No HTML was used to make this page; it is composed entirely of Structured Text.
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bold text |
**bold text**
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italicized text |
*italicized text*
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underlined text |
__underlined text_
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'code text'
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- Precede paragraphs with hyphen
* Or an asterisk to create a bulleted list.
* Paragraphs must be double spaced.
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1) Precede paragraphs with a number and a
2) closed parenthesis to create numbered lists.
3) Paragraphs must be double spaced.
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Heading 1Indented paragraphs use the heading above Heading 2Increase indent = New heading |
Heading 1
Indented paragraphs use the paragraph
above as a heading.
Heading 2
Increasing the indentation
creates a lower level heading.
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A double colon:
<b>text</b>
(HTML is escaped)
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A double colon::
Followed by an indented paragraph.
Produces a <pre> block. HTML and STX
are escaped
<p>text</p>
The syntax for the examples on this page
are displayed using the '::' convention.
Note that when inserting code in tables,
the pipe delimiter must immediately
follow the double colon.
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A paragraph followed by a double hyphen --
Followed by an indented paragraph.
Produces definition list block.
Note that unlike the examples above,
there is no empty line between the
title and text for a definition list.
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http://www.google.com
Anything resembling a link is converted.
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"Google":http://www.google.com
Prepending a quoted name and a colon
creates a named link.
This method can be used to create
relative links on an STX page
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"Mail Me":mailto:spammy@spammo.com
The same convention can be used for
mailto, ftp, etc.
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StructuredText
Concatenated words that match the name
of a Wiki page are converted to a link
to that page.
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See Structured Text Tables for more information about how to create tables in Structured Text.
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