Wiki Creole

Created on 2021-01-30T18:40:16-06:00

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This card pertains to a resource available on the internet.

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Logical unit: a paragraph, list item, or table cell.

Formatting command: a particular request to format a span of text in some way such as bold or as a hyperlink.

Italics exception: twin slashes after a colon should not start an italics; such as file:// or http:// or ftp://

Stacking: the order formatting starts and ends is imporant. **//test//** is allowed but **//test**// is not.

Bold: **bold text**

Italics: //italic//

Headers: the number of ='s is the heading level, a final = is required but the number of ='s on the end is not important

Links: [[wiki link]], [[page|link to 'page' but with custom text]], [[OtherWiki:Topic]]

Line break: \\

Listing: Lines starting with * or # are lists; additional * or # mean a nested list (outline.) Ordered lists use # and unordered lists use *.

Horizontal rule: ----

Images: {{url to image|alt text}}

Nowiki: {{{nothing in this hat is processed until it ends}}}

Escape: insert a tilde ~

Placeholder: <<< something >>>

Extensions

Plugins: <>

Monospace: some ##monospace## text

Superscripts: some ^^superscripted^^ text

Subscript: some ,,subscripted,, text

Underlines: some __underlined__ text

Oddmuse extensions

Footnotes: some text((which will be placed at a footnote section)) later indicated by

Tables

Heading: A cell beginning with "=" is a header cell.

Cells are separated with "|"

A line which contains table cells begins with and ends with "|"

|=Word|=Meaning|
|Henlo|A greeting.|
|Poop|Something people do after eating Chipotle.|

Escapes

Escapes must appear at the beginning of some entity. It will prevent special processing of the entity such as conversion to a URL or a WikiWord or a table column separator.

Nowiki rules

If more than three }'s are adjacent then only the last 3 are consumed.

If a closing }}} is encountered on its own line with whitespace leading up to it, it will be copied to the output but with a single leading space removed.

Example

= Example =
I am an //example// of speex, an **audio compression codec**.

== An outline ==
* Pine cones
** You dont wan't to eat them
** Might make some kind of tea?
* Snakes