Text Formatting Rules

Paragraphs

• Don't Indent paragraphs
• Words wrap and fill as needed
• Use blank lines as separators
• Four or more minus signs make a horizontal rule

Lists

• a single asterisk (*) for first level
• two asterisks (**) for second level, etc.
• One line for each item

Fonts

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

 This is in monospace

This is not

Indented Paragraphs (Quotes)

• tab, space, ":", tab often used (with emphasis) for quotations. (See SimulatingQuoteBlocks)

Emphasis

• Use forward-slashes for emphasis (usually italics)
• Use dashes for strong emphasis (usually bold)
• Use both for both
• Emphasis can be used multiple times within a line, but cannot cross line boundaries
• You can use the sort-of HTML tags, "p", "b", "i" and "font"

References

• JoinCapitalizedWords to make links to other Wiki pages
• [1], [2], [3], [4] refer to FootNotes.
• Or precede URLs with "http:", "ftp:" or "telnet:" to create links automatically as in: http://www.nbtsc.org
• URLs surrounded by braces are inlined (go for it if you know what it means)

HTML (You just had to have it, eh?)

• "p" is a paragraph break
• "b" is bold
• "i" is italic

• For those who are interested, I've never liked HTMl tags on the Wiki... and never will. Just makes my job harder. (Ari)