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Introduction to Markup (editing for beginners)PmWiki gives authors many ways to change how what they write gets laid out on the page. To do this, authors add markup -- text with a special meaning -- to the page's content. This page introduces some of the more commonly-used markup and points to a number of more advanced options. The Markup master list page shows all available markup. Character markupCharacter markup consists of opening and closing marks around the selected text. These are combinations of characters that don't usually appear in ordinary prose. When the wiki encounters them, it changes the way the enclosed text is displayed.
Other character markup includes superscript, subscript, underline, and Line markupAuthors can use a variety of start-of-line markup to define paragraphs, lists, and other structures. Line markup characters include a space (" If there is no start-of-line markup, the text is a plain paragraph. To break text into separate paragraphs, place a blank line between the paragraphs. To make a heading, start the line with exclamation marks ("
To create a bulleted list, start each new line with an
To create a numbered list, start each new line with a
To indent text without a list symbol, start the line with
For more information, see Line Markup. LinksThe Pages in the same groupTo link to a page in the same group as the current page, such as Documentation Index, write Pages in other groupsTo link to a page in another group, such as the Pages on other sitesTo link to a page on another site, such as Link textTo link to an example instead of to More linksFor more information, see links. Block markupSome markup affects the display of several lines of text -- or text blocks. See block markup. Getting goingAuthors can test these and other examples in the sandbox. Then explore tables, images, styles, list styles, page lists, and directives.
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