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The most frequently asked questions about text formatting are answered. Also, TextFormattingRules contains the complete TWiki shorthand system on one quick reference page. |
| | How do I create a heading?
You can create six sizes of headings - <h1>...<h6> in HTML - by typing, from the beginning of a line, three dashes (-), from one to six plus signs (+), a space, and your heading text. The FAQ questions on this page are created with: ---+++ Have a question?. |
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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).
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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).
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A question mark after a word is a link to a topic that doesn't yet exist - click it to create the new page. This is a TWiki feature - typing a MeaningfulTitle in a comment is an invitation for someone else to add a new branch to the topic. |
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A leading exclamation point is used to escape wiki formatting, as we have learned in the previous question. Sometimes it has an unwanted effect, such as when you want to write "!=" (e.g. "not equal"), you will not see the exclamation mark.
To escape the exclamation mark escape, try prefixing a <nop>, e.g. write A <nop>!= B to get "A != B". Alternatively, use the HTML entity !, which renders as an exclamation mark, e.g. write A != B to get "A != B".
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| | How can I write fixed font text?
The quickest way is to enclose the text in equal signs: |
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The pre tag is standard HTML; verbatim is a special TWiki tag that forces text to fixed font mode, and also prevents other tags and TWiki shortcuts from being expanded. |
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NOTE: The verbatim opening and closing tags are converted into pre tags; any HTML attributes (e.g., class, id) in the opening verbatim tag are included in the corresponding pre tag. |
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How do I create tables? |
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This is a simple and automatic way of including inline images. Simply write the URL of the image file, this will create the inline image for you. NOTE: The images must be accessible as a URL. |
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- You enter:
%PUBURL%/TWiki/TWikiLogos/T-logo-80x15.gif logo.
Result:  logo.
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- You enter:
%PUBURL%/TWiki/TWikiLogos/T-logo-80x15.gif logo.
Result: logo.
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You can upload images directly to your server with FTP access. You can also attach image files to a topic - you could even create a dedicated image topic, like ImageLibrary - and then link to the images directly: |
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2. Using <img> tag |
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<img src="%PUBURLPATH%/TWiki/TWikiLogos/T-logo-80x15.gif" width="80" height="15" border="0" alt="logo" /> logo.
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- You enter:
<img src="%PUBURLPATH%/TWiki/TWikiLogos/T-logo-80x15.gif" width="80" height="15" border="0" alt="logo" /> logo.
Result:
logo.
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Can I write colored text? |
| | The code is the hexadecimal RGB color code, which is simply Red, Green and Blue values in hex notation (base 16, 0-F). For pure red, the RGB components are 255-0-0 - full red (255), no green or blue. That's FF-0-0 in hex, or "#ff0000" for Web page purposes. StandardColors lists basic colors.
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