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TextFormattingRules 18 - 2001-06-28 - PeterThoeny
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The Collaborative Work Area is a bunch of related links that are editable through your web browser. | |
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- GoodStyle is a WikiWord that links to the GoodStyle topic located in the current TWiki web.
- NotExistingYet is a topic waiting to be written. You could create that topic by clicking on the question mark. (Do not create that topic; you would wreck this example!)
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http://..., https://..., ftp://... and mailto:...@... are linked automatically.
- Email addresses like
name@domain.com are linked automatically.
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Most HTML tags will work, but it's almost always preferable not to use HTML, so that the markup remains easy for everyone to edit. | |
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Variables are names that are enclosed in percent signs; they get expanded on the fly. | |
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%TOC% : The table of content, is based on headings in a topic.
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%WEB% : The current web, is TWiki .
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%TOPIC% : The current topic name, is TextFormattingRules .
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%ATTACHURL% : The attachment URL of the current topic. Example usage: If you attach a file to a topic you can refer to it as %ATTACHURL%/image.gif to show the URL of the file or the image in your text.
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%INCLUDE{"SomeTopic"}% : Server side include, includes another topic. The current TWiki web is the default web. Example: %INCLUDE{"TWiki.TWikiWebsTable"}%
- There are many more variables, see TWikiVariables.
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> | "Gotchas" when Editing Text
The formatting rules are fairly simple to use and fast to type. However, there are some things to watch out for:
- Q: Text enclosed in angle brackets like
<filename> is not displayed. How can I show it as it is?
- A: The
'<' and '>' characters have a special meaning in HTML, they define HTML tags. You need to escape them, so write '<' instead of '<', and '>' instead of '>'.
Example: Type 'prog <filename>' to get 'prog <filename>'.
- Q: Why is the
'&' character sometimes not displayed?
- A: The
'&' character has a special meaning in HTML, it starts a so called character entity, i.e. '©' is the © copyright character. You need to escape '&' to see it as it is, so write '&' instead of '&'.
Example: Type 'This & that' to get 'This & that'.
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TWiki Plugins offer additional text formatting rules. Plugins currently installed are: |
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