Thelemapedia:Really Simple Tutorial (Formatting)

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Technically, you don't have to format your entries at all...just type away and hit "save". However, if you want to make your additions a little more snazzy, you may use what is called "wiki markup" to do so. Don't worry, it is designed to be really simple.

There are 5 main buttons you need to know: the apostrophe, the equals sign, the asterisk, the number sign, and the colon.

Table of contents

1 Making text bold and italic

2 Headings and subheadings

3 Bullets and lists

4 Indenting

Making text bold and italic

The apostrophe is your key to making text bold and/or italic. If you put two apostrophes on either side of a word, it becomes italicized. If you use three, it becomes bold. If you use five, it becomes both. See? It's simple:

''italics'' becomes: italics. (2 apostrophes. Note: quotation marks won't work...they just look "like this")
'''bold''' becomes: bold. (3 apostrophes on either side)
'''''bolded italics''''' becomes: bolded italics. (5 apostrophes on either side)

Headings and subheadings

Headings and subheadings are an easy way to improve the organization of an article. If you can see two or more distinct topics being discussed, you can break up your article by inserting a heading for each section. The key here is the equals sign:

Headings are created like this:

==Top level heading== (2 equals signs)
===Subheading=== (3 equals signs)
====Another level down==== (4 equals signs)
=====Another level down===== (5 equals signs)

If an article has at least three headings, a table of contents will be automatically generated.

Bullets and lists

Bullets and lists are very easy to make using the asterisk (*) and the number sign (#).

A brief example:

What you type

* First list item

* Second list item

** Sub-list item under second

* Isn't this fun?

What you see

First list item
Second list item
- Sub-list item under second
Isn't this fun?

What you type

# First numbered item

# Second numbered item

## Sub-item under second

# Isn't this fun?

What you see

First numbered item
Second numbered item
1. Sub-item under second
Isn't this fun?

Indenting

Indenting is often used for quotes within articles. The simplest way of indenting is to place a colon (:) at the beginning of a line. The more colons you put, the further indented the text will be. A newline (pressing Enter or Return ) marks the end of the indented paragraph.

What you type

This is aligned all the way to the left.

:This is indented slightly.

::This is indented more.

What you see

This is aligned all the way to the left.

This is indented slightly.

This is indented more.

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