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Wiki Text Formatting Rules

All of the ePortfolio text editing shortcuts and conventions are supported in the ePortfolio Wiki

To see how any page is formatted, just follow the link "Edit text of this page" at the bottom of the page.

The ePortfolio Wiki is based largely upon Use Mod Wiki (an open source wiki).
The authors should be complimented for making it easy to integrate into the MyePort ePortfolio.

Additional (Wiki-only) Rules

Entering text on a wiki can be done simply. Follow these guidelines:

use '' (two single-quotes) for italics, ''' (three single-quotes) for bold, and ''''' (five single-quotes) for bold-italics. Alternatively, use tags <b>bold</b> and <i>italic</i>
Use tag <tt>for monospace text</tt> (tt stands for typewriter text)
The first character entered on a line often controls the formatting of the text on that line (shades of Fortran), in brief (see below for details):
- " " space causes text to appear in a monospaced font where spaces are significant
- ":" colon causes text to be indented
- "=" equals - followed by a space - creates a heading, a trailing "=" - preceded by a space - is required
- "*" asterisk creates a bulleted list
- "#" hash creates a numbered list
- ";" semicolon creates a definition list, a ":" colon is required subsequently on the same line
- "----" four hyphens creates a horizontal line
- "||" vertical bar creates a table

: Repetition of the first character on the line generally increases the indentation or emphasis

Leave a single blank line between paragraphs.
Linefeeds in input text are preserved
Suppress wiki formatting and linking through escaped WikiWiki text -- <nowiki>WikiWiki</nowiki>
Insert an image using a full URL

Wiki Pages

You can link to a page by removing the spaces between two or more words, and starting each word with a capital letter. For instance, WikiName and TextFormattingExamples are samples of page links. This is called camel case and is discouraged because of poor legibility. Camel Case has been disabled in ePortfolio wikis (as of 11/27/2005); use free links (described next). An option has been added to Add Wiki/Edit Wiki (1/18/2006) allowing a user to enable camel case if desired.

Alternatively, you can use a free link: surround text with two pairs of square brackets like [[Sample Free Link]]. This allows all-downcase or atomic capitalized names as well as strange names including punctuation. This is considered the preferred link style.
The following free link syntax allows you to have the visible link anchor text differ from the page name:
[[Free Link|Visible Anchor Text]]

Nonexistent pages will be displayed with a question mark link. The question mark link indicates the page doesn't exist yet--follow the link to create and edit the page.

URLs

Plain URL link: http://www.audsplace.com -- http:/www.audsplace.com

Named URL link: [Aud's Website] -- [http://audsplace.com Aud's Website]

[url image_url] creates an image link

eport link : Aud's Place -- http://www.audsplace.com "Aud's Place"

ePort link (new Page): More on Aud -- http://www.audsplace.com 'More on Aud'

Lists:

Simple lists:

* Text for a bulleted list item.
** Text for second-level list.
*** Text for third level, etc.

...which looks like:

Text for a bulleted list item.
- Text for second-level list.
  - Text for third level, etc.

Numbered lists:

# Text for a numbered list item.
## Text for second-level list.
### Text for third level, etc.
## Another Text for the second level.

...which looks like:

Text for a numbered list item.
1. Text for second-level list.
  1. Text for third level, etc.
2. Another Text for the second level.

===Indented Text:===

: Text to be indented (quote-block)
:: Text indented more
::: Text indented to third level

...which looks like:

Text to be indented (quote-block)

Text indented more

: Text indented to third level

Definition Text:

Term with indented definition: [without a blank line between term and definition]

;Term:Definition (indented)
;;Term (indented):Definition (indented two levels)
;;;Term (indented twice):Definition (indented to third level)

...which looks like:

Term

Definition (indented)

Term (indented)

Definition (indented two levels)

Term (indented twice): Definition (indented to third level)

Images

Just provide the URL, and the image will be inserted inline. For example, just insert http://www.usemod.com/wiki.gif to see this image:

... or, typing http://www.audsplace.com/HomeHtml/final.jpg will yield this:

As a point of clarification, you can link to any image on the web, but you can't just load an image from your computer. However you can easily upload an image into a different ePortfolio page and link it in.
Beginning in April, 2007, ePortfolio wiki's now have an editing toolbar offering wysiwyg and keyboard editing functions.
ePortfolio authors can upload images and documents directly from the wiki toolbar.

Section Headings

Up to six levels of heading can be used.
You create headings by using a "=" equals as the first character on a line.

: Note a space must separate the heading text from the "=" equals.

= Section Heading 1 =
== Section Heading 2 ==
=== Section Heading Three ===
==== Section Heading Four ====
===== Section Heading 5 =====
====== Section Heading 6 ======

= Section Heading 1 =

Section Heading 2

Section Heading Three

Section Heading Four

Section Heading 5

Section Heading 6

Preformatted Text

Individual lines can be displayed as preformatted (fixed-width or "typewriter"-font) text by placing one or more spaces at the start of the line. Other wiki formatting (like links) will be applied to this kind of preformatted text.

Additionally, multi-line sections can be marked as pre-formatted text using lines starting with <pre> (to start pre-formatted text), and </pre> (to end preformatted text). The <pre> and </pre> tags are not displayed. Wiki links and other formatting is not done within a preformatted section. (If you want wiki formatting, use spaces at the start of the line instead of the <pre> and </pre> tags.)

For instance:

Pre-formatted section here.  No other link =link=
  or format processing is done on pre-formatted sections.

For instance, http://www.audsplace.com is not a link here.

and:

This is the starting-spaces version of preformatted text. Note that links like http://www.audsplace.com still work.

Miscellaneous rules:

To quote text without applying the wiki formatting rules, enclose it within a <nowiki> ... </nowiki> section. Within a nowiki section, only HTML-quoting of special characters (<>&) will occur - no other formatting rules will be applied.
A line which ends in a backslash character (\) will be joined with the next line before most formatting rules are applied. This can be useful for breaking up long sections of text in line-sensitive sections (like lists or indented text).

Table Features

Example Wiki Table

Column A Column B Column C

Entry for row 1, Column A Entry for row 1, Column B Entry for row 1, Column C

Entry for row 2, Column A Entry for row 2, Column B Entry for row 2, Column C

Spanning entry Entry for row 3, Column C

More spanning

The above table is acheived with following:

||'''Column A'''||'''Column B'''||'''Column C'''||
||Entry for row 1, Column A||Entry for row 1, Column B||Entry for row 1, Column C||
||Entry for row 2, Column A||Entry for row 2, Column B||Entry for row 2, Column C||
||||Spanning entry|| Entry for row 3, Column C ||
||||||More spanning||

Note: html table tags work fine; their use is not discouraged in this wiki.

Column A	Column B	Column C
Entry for row 1, Column A	Entry for row 1, Column B	Entry for row 1, Column C
Entry for row 2, Column A	Entry for row 2, Column B	Entry for row 2, Column C
Spanning entry		Entry for row 3, Column C
More spanning