Formatting Summary

The Basics

Type normally, as you would in an email. Lines will wrap to fit the finished page. Put blank lines between paragraphs.

Two single quotes surround italic text. ''italic''
⇒ italic

Three single quotes surround bold text. '''bold'''
⇒ bold

Three asterisks surround headings (which go on their own line). ***Heading***
⇒ Heading

Square brackets have special meaning, so you'll need to double them up. [[brackets]]
⇒ [brackets]

Put a single dash on a line by itself to cause a line break, but with no space between like in paragraphs.

Put four or more dashes alone on a line to make a horizontal rule.

Lists

Create a bulleted list by starting each line with an asterisk and then a space, and then typing the entire bullet point on a single line (it can wrap in the browser window).

* first * second

⇒	first second

Do the same thing with a numbered list, but use a "#" sign instead.

# one # two

⇒

Use multiple "*" or "#" at the start of the line to create nested lists.

* first *# one *# two * second

⇒	first one two second

Tables and Other Text Blocks

Create tables using "|" as a cell divider, and also starting and ending each row of the table. | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 4 | 5 | 6 |

Center or right align table cells by using two or more spaces before and after (center) or just before (right) the cell's contents. | _⊔⊔center_⊔⊔ | | _⊔⊔right |

Preserve line and character spacing by starting and ending the block with "===". Displayed in a fixed width font. === ... ===

Use six "=" to prevent any other formatting (links, italics, etc.) from being applied to a preformatted block. ====== ... ======

With HTML formatting turned on in the forum, you can provide a block of raw HTML within the page. ===html=== ... ===html===

Top-posted comments will be placed below this divider. ===comments===

Links to Forum Pages
To link to a page within the same forum, put the name of the page in square brackets.	`[My Page]` ⇒ My Page
To link to a page in the main group of the forum from a project, put a "#" sign before the page name.	`[#My Page]`
To link to a page in an arbitrary forum, put the forum's URL prefix (the number or short word in its web address) first.	`[3#My Page]` `[newprod#My Page]`
You can omit the page name to link to the forum's Home page. The link will display as the name of the forum.	`[3#]` `[newprod#]`
Help and popup links point to pages in the same forum, and appear in their own popup window.	`[help:My Page]` `[popup:My Page]`
External Links
Just type the address for a web page to create a link to it.	`http://www.foo.com` ⇒ http://www.foo.com
Enclose it in square brackets to create a shorter reference.	`[http://www.foo.com]` ⇒ [link]
Put a space and a new name after it to change the text that is displayed.	`[http://foo.com Foo]` ⇒ Foo
Email links work in the same way.	`mailto:x@y.com` ⇒ x@y.com `[mailto:x@y.com]` ⇒ [email]
Links to 'https:', 'ftp:', 'news:', 'rtsp:', 'telnet:' etc. sites work similarly.
Files and Images
Files attached with 'Attach File' appear as file: links in the page.	`[file:12345]`
You can also point to files on a shared network drive.	`[file:\\server\x.doc]`
Images attached with 'Add Image' appear as image: links in the page.	`[image:12345]`
You can optionally specify a size to display the image (`@`width`x`height).	`[image:12345@640x480]`
You can also include an image from an external website.	`[image:http://..gif]`
More Complex Stuff
Include either another forum page (from this forum or another) or another web page.	`[include:My Page] [include:3#My Page] [include:http://...]`
Display an RSS feed in a page.	`[rss:http://..rss.xml] [rsslong:http:..rss.xml] [rssfull:http:..rss.xml]`
Show the recent changes for this forum or another.	`[recentchanges:] [recentchanges:newprod] [recentchangeslong:]`
Show all pages that link to this page.	`[references:]`
Show all the pages that are in this forum in the page.	`[pagelist:] [pagelist:bydate]`
Table of contents based on page headings.	`[toc:]`