Help:Formatting

You can format your text using the formatting toolbar or wiki markup. Wiki markup can be thought of as a simplified version of html and it consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki. For example, to format a word in italic, you include it in two single quotes like.

Headers & Lines
{| class="wikitable" width="80%" ! Description !! You type !! You get ! colspan="3" style="background:#ABE" | section formatting – only at the beginning of the line (with no leading spaces)
 * Headings of different levels
 * =level 1=
 * =level 1=

level 6
Level 1 is normally set aside for the article title. An article with 4 or more headings automatically creates a table of contents.

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
 * Horizontal rule
 * and  for breaking a line within an item may also be controversial.
 * 1) one
 * 2) two
 * 3) * two point one
 * 4) * two point two
 * 5) three
 * 6) ; three item one
 * three def one
 * 1) four
 * four def one
 * this rather looks like the continuation of
 * often used instead of
 * 1) five
 * 2) five sub 1
 * 3) five sub 1 sub 1
 * 4) five sub 2
 * item 1
 * definition 1-1
 * definition 1-2
 * item 2
 * definition 2-1
 * definition 2-2
 * item 2
 * definition 2-1
 * definition 2-2


 * }

For even more on list, check out Wikipedia's List Help article.

Signatures
You should always sign your comments, though signatures can be inserted anywhere on a wiki page.
 * Note: Once you save, the signature and date/time are automatically created. The next time someone edits, it no longer show the tildes.

Links

 * Please see Help:Links for detailed information on creating hyperlinks

Paragraphs
MediaWiki ignores single line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can force a line break within a paragraph with the HTML tags.

HTML Formatting
Some HTML tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example,  ,   and. These apply anywhere you insert them.

Mathematical formulas
MediaWiki allows you to use LaTeX to insert mathematical formulae by typing in $$Formula here$$. Included here are a couple of examples and commonly used functions and expressions.

See WikiMedia's Help on Displaying a Formula for a full article on using TeX to display formulae. Beginning at Section 3 (Functions, symbols, special characters) is a comprehensive list of all the symbols.