To experiment with the rules, please try editing WikiSandbox.

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* [#paragraphs Paragraphs]

* [#text Text]

* [#horizontal_line Horizontal Line]

* [#lists Lists]

* [#linking Linking]

* [#images Images]

* [#headings Headings]

* [#first_heading First Heading]

** [#second_heading Second Heading]

*** [#third_heading Third Heading]

* [#index Index]

* [#emoticons Emoticons]

* [#tables Tables]

* [#scroll_box Scroll box]

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! Paragraphs

* Do not indent paragraphs

* Words wrap and fill as needed

* Use blank lines as separators

* Lines indented with one or more spaces are monospace text:

>  This is monospace text.

 This is monospace text

* Soft line breaks with the percent symbol:

> Line 1&percent;&percent;&percent;Line 2

Line 1%%%Line 2

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! Text

* Bold with 3 apostrophes

> This is '''bold text'''.

This is '''bold text'''.

* Italics with 2 apostrophes

> This is ''italic text''.

This is ''italic text''.

* Both bold and italics with 5 apostrophes

> This is '''''bold italic text'''''.

This is '''''bold italic text'''''.

* Underline with 2 underscores

> This is &score;&score;underlined text&score;&score;.

This is __underlined text__.

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! Horizontal Line

* Four dashes on a line produce a horizontal line.

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! Lists

* Bullet lists are made by placing asterisks at the left margin followed by a space then text.  More asterisks increases the level of bullet:

> * First-level list item

> ** Second-level list item

> ** Another second-level list item

> *** Third-level list item

> * Another first-level list item

* First-level list item

** Second-level list item

** Another second-level list item

*** Third-level list item

* Another first-level list item

> # One

> # Two

> ## Two sub one

> ## Two sub two

> # Three

# One

# Two

## Two sub one

## Two sub two

# Three

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! Linking

* Join capitalized words ([WikiWord]s) to make references to other pages on this wiki.

* Absolute URLs can be attached to ordinary text like this:

> &lparen;http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/ Melbourne Wireless&rparen;

(http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/ Melbourne Wireless)

* Relative URLs require a leading / (forward slash):

> &lparen;/about/ About Melbourne Wireless&rparen;

(/about/ About Melbourne Wireless)

* Link anchors can be attached to ordinary text like this:

> &lbrac;!WikiWord Find out what a Wiki Word is&rbrac;

[WikiWord Find out what a Wiki Word is]

* Link to specific versions of pages like this:

> &lbrac;!WikiWord|2 Find out what a Wiki Word is&rbrac;

[WikiWord|2 Find out what a Wiki Word is]

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! Images

* Use curly braces with a description (descriptive text MUST be supplied):

> {http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/images/logo.jpg Melbourne Wireless}

{http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/images/logo.jpg Melbourne Wireless}

* You may link from an image by including either a !WikiWord or a URI:

> {http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/images/logo.jpg http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/ Melbourne Wireless}

{http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/images/logo.jpg http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/ Melbourne Wireless}



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! Headings

* Headings are made by placing an exclamation mark (!) at the right margin followed by a space:

> ! First Heading

> !! Second Heading

> !!! Third Heading



! First Heading

!! Second Heading

!!! Third Heading

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! Index

The "indexing" plugin can generate an index of the headings for the current page:

> &hash;&hash;&hash; Index &hash;&hash;&hash;

* [#First First Heading]

** [#Second Second Heading]

* [#Third Third Heading]

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! Emoticons

* Emoticons automaticaly show as graphics:

|| :&rparen; || =&rparen; || ;&rparen; || :O || :D || :-&rparen; || :| || :/ || :P || :'( ||

|| {/regexpicons/emoticons/emoticon-face1.png :)} || {/regexpicons/emoticons/emoticon-face2.png =)} || {/regexpicons/emoticons/emoticon-face3.png ;)} || {/regexpicons/emoticons/emoticon-face5.png :O} || {/regexpicons/emoticons/emoticon-face6.png :D} || {/regexpicons/emoticons/emoticon-face7.png :-)} || {/regexpicons/emoticons/emoticon-face8.png :|} || {/regexpicons/emoticons/emoticon-face9.png :/} || {/regexpicons/emoticons/emoticon-face10.png :P} || {/regexpicons/emoticons/emoticon-face11.png :'(} ||

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! Tables

Use the pipe character build tables:

> &pipe;&pipe;'''Fruit'''&pipe;&pipe;''Colour''&pipe;&pipe;

> &pipe;&pipe;Banana&pipe;&pipe;Yellow&pipe;&pipe;

> &pipe;&pipe;Apple&pipe;&pipe;Red&percent;&percent;&percent;Green&pipe;&pipe;

> &pipe;&pipe;Orange&pipe;&pipe;Orange&pipe;&pipe;

||'''Fruit'''||''Colour''||

||Banana||Yellow||

||Apple||Red%%%Green||

||Orange||Orange||

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! Scroll box

> ++++

> Content to be boxed

> ++++



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'''Content to be boxed'''

 - eg:

* Node diarys

* Verbose screen dumps

* code

* anything else that would benefit from the appearance of a scroll bar such as this one  --------------------------------------->















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TextFormattingRules are implemented in this wiki by the use of (http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/~tyson/tools/wiki/regexp/html regular expressions).



This installation is using the following version of TextFormattingRules:

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