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 Text Formatting FAQ

  • The most frequently asked questions about text formatting are answered here.
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How do I make a separator?

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<		You can make a horizontal separator by writing 4 or more dashes at the beginning of a line.

How do I create a title or a heading?

The most simple way is to enclose it in '*' Asterisk characters or '_' Underscore characters.

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How do I create a heading?

 
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You could use also HTML tags for headings, e.g. <H4>This is an HTML heading</H4> will show up as:

This is an HTML heading

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  • You can insert a nested table of contents, generated from headings, by placing %TOC% wherever you like on a page (see TWikiVariables for more %TOC% options).
 

Text enclosed in angle brackets like <filename> is not displayed. How can I show it as it is?

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<		TWiki interprets text as HTML. The '<' and '>' characters are used to define HTML commands. Any valid text within angle brackets gets interpreted by the browser as an HTML command. Invalid text is ignored, that's why it doesn't show up.

There are two work arounds if you want to display angle brackets:

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  • Do an escape sequence in HTML:
    • Write &lt; instead of <
    • Write &gt; instead of >
    • Example: Write (a &gt; 0) instead of (a > 0)
  • Replace angle brackets with curly brackets.
    • Example: Write {is-writable} instead of <is-writable>
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    • Enter: (a &gt; 0) to get (a > 0)
 
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Some words (like WinAPI) have an unwanted question mark at the end. How can I prevent that?

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    WinAPI as it is, <nop>WinAPI with preceding NOP.
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How can I write fixed font text?

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    Proportional text, =fixed font text= , proportional again.
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  • Proportional text, =fixed font text=, proportional again. appears as...
    Proportional text, fixed font text , proportional again.
  Alternatively you could also use preformatted text, see next question for details.
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Text I enter gets wrapped around. How can I keep the formatting as it is?

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<		TWiki interprets text as HTML. It is possible to use preformatted text to work around this. Use the preformatted HTML tags to keep the new line of text as it is. Do so by enclosing the text with <PRE> and </PRE> tags, e.g.
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  Unit Price Qty Cost ------- ------ --- ------ aaa 12.00 3 36.00
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How do I create tables?

There are three possibilities:

  1. Use Wiki rule with "|" vertical bars.
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  1. Use HTML tables with <TABLE>, <TR>, <TD> tags.
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  1. Use HTML tables with <table>, <tr>, <td> tags.
 
  1. Use preformatted text with <PRE> tags.

_1. Use Wiki rule with "|" vertical bars_

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More information about HTML tables can be found at http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/table/table.html

 _3. Use preformatted text with <PRE> tags_

Text I enter gets wrapped around. How can I keep the formatting as it is? See "Text enclosed..."

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Can I include images and pictures?

Yes, this is possible. The easiest way of including images is to attach a GIF or JPG file to a topic and then to include it with text %ATTACHURL%/myImage.gif . FileAttachment has more.

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