Wiki formatting is very simple and is based on text with extra little annotations. From plain text you get nice formatting. It's a little bit like the emoticons in instant messenger.

• Simple text formatting - bold, italic, headings, rules, and so on.
• Linking - Basics of linking (including topic name formats), preventing linking
• Lists - Bulletted and numbered lists
• Emoticons - Emoticons (like and )
• Tables - Tables (rows, cell, etc.)
• Images - Images, picture, etc.
• Text Size and Color - Changing color and size of text
• Pre-formatted Text Blocks - Fixed-width, plain text (e.g., code fragments)
• External References - Easy ways to refer to other sites
• Including Topics - Including the contents of one topic in another
• Alternative text formatting - Additional ways to get basic formatting following the Texttile conventions
• Properties - Properties provide semi-structured information about pages
• Escaping - How to avoid formatting interpretations for fragments of text

Almost all of these rules are available as hover-tips on the side of the page when you're editing a topic.

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