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Latest revision as of 17:21, 15 January 2013

Note that Wikipedia has a lot of formatting extensions installed that we don't have (or need).

(<nowiki> tags have been applied to the text below so that wiki markup appears literally.)

Links to other pages on the same wiki are formatted [[page title]]; if you have plurals something like [[gamevar]]s shows up neatly formatted; the pipe '|' character can be used to change the displayed text (the example from the first paragraph: [[palette (environment)|palette swaps]])
URLs can have custom text in the format [http://www.url.com link title]
[[Wikipedia:article]] will link to a Wikipedia article
Script files and code can be formatted by putting a blank space before each line. If you have an empty line in the code, add a space to it too, or the code blocks will appear separate. Some examples use the <pre></pre> tags but I discourage this because it disables wiki formatting within the code.
Unordered lists, useful for sets of links, can be made by prepending each line with an asterisk '*'. (Ordered lists use '#'.) Multiple list symbols can be used for sublevels and they can be mixed and matched.
Avoid using * on lines of text that don't need it, such as normal text or section headings.
In most cases the "----" can be better served by a level two ==section heading==, and it is always made redundant by one right below it.

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 *<nowiki>Script files and code can be formatted by putting a blank space before each line. If you have an empty line in the code, add a space to it too, or the code blocks will appear separate. Some examples use the <pre></pre> tags but I discourage this because it disables wiki formatting within the code.</nowiki>
 *<nowiki>Unordered lists, useful for sets of links, can be made by prepending each line with an asterisk '*'. (Ordered lists use '#'.) Multiple list symbols can be used for sublevels and they can be mixed and matched.</nowiki>
-*<nowiki>Article text is most readable when it is simply left in paragraphs in the body of the article.</nowiki>
+*<nowiki>Avoid using * on lines of text that don't need it, such as normal text or section headings.</nowiki>
 *<nowiki>In most cases the "----" can be better served by a level two ==section heading==, and it is always made redundant by one right below it.</nowiki>