• EditingTips

Anyone can edit the text of a page by clicking the "EditText" link in the page footer, or (if your browser support JavaScript properly, and you have it turned on) double-clicking anywhere on the page.

Names of pages have to LookLikeThis. It's called a WikiWord. If you write a word that LooksLikeThis, it will be automatically turned into a link. You can also write Multi Word Links by enclosing the words in (doubled) square brackets. This is particularly useful if the wiki puts extraneous spaces in the link (mentioning no names, Steve McIntyre). This is probably a good time to note that a double backtick can be used to break up things that would otherwise have significance: WikiWord creates a link, but WikiWord doesn't (you can also use it for plural WikiWords).

Leave blank lines between paragraphs.

You can also write italics and bold. To write italics, enclose the text in double single quotes. To write bold, enclose the text in triple single quotes. If you can't figure out what I mean, click EditText (in the footer) to look at the source for this page.

If you indent text

• like this, then it is indented in the output
  • you can have multiple levels of indent

And if you put asterisks at the start of the line

• you get a
• bulleted
• list
  • which can also be indented
    • to several levels

To insert program source without reformatting in a monospace font, use three cur ly braces:

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    out.println("Hello");
  }

Just like that.

URLs and email addresses show up, but are also turned into hyperlinks; however, if a URL refers to an image, that image is inserted into the page instead (although it remains on whatever server the URL refers to).

<<< Comments are formatted like this. Each must end in a double dash, followed by an attribution (in practice, a link to a HomePage). Also, if you indent a comment, please ensure that the end tag has the same indentation as the start tag, otherwise the comment won't close properly. This is probably specific to the current parser, and hence should be less of a problem Come The Revolution. -- RobHague >>>

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An Anchor links to the corresponding Anchor on the same page.

!![WikiWord]s also count as anchors.

The FixMe link can be used to flag things that need attention; as well as being big and obvious, it links to a page linking to all the instances of the marco.

See SyntaxReference for a full description of the standard MoinMoin syntax.

Now click EditText in the footer to see the markup for this page, and try it yourself in SandBox.