HowTo

This is only a brief summary of what is possible; the full version of this can be viewed on the syntax-page.

Click on the [Edit] button by a section to edit that section, click on the [Edit this page] button at the top or the bottom to edit the whole page. After editing, you can either [Save] or [Cancel], and you can write a summary of what editing you have done – leaving at least your initials might be a good idea.

• Text can be shown in italics, bold, monospace and underlined :

  //italics//, **bold**, ''monospace'' and __underlined__ 

• These mark-ups can be combined in any way, like bold italics.

• Text can be shown as ^superscript, _subscript and deleted

  <sup>superscript</sup>, <sub>subscript</sub> and <del>deleted</del>

• A new line is started by backslash backslash: \\ .

• A new paragraph is started by leaving a blank line.

• Two spaces at the start of a line followed by * produce an unordered list-item, four spaces make it an unordered sub-list item, and so on.

• Two spaces at the start of a line followed by - produce an ordered list-item (numbers), four spaces make it an ordered sub-list item (lower-case letters), and so on.

• Also, a footnote ¹⁾ is created automatically by including text in double parentheses: ((Footnote Text)). The footnote number is a link, so you can click on it to jump between the text and the footnote.

  Indenting a paragraph with two spaces means it will not be formatted
  but just shown as it was entered, so **this is not bold**.

• Different sizes of headlines are made by surrounding the heading text with between 6 (for the most important headings) and 2 (for the smallest headings) equal-signs: ==== 3. Sectioning ====

• Headlines with between 6 and 4 equal-signs start a new section for separate editing and, when there are at least three such headlines on a page, they are automatically entered into a Table of Contents at the top of the page.

• Four or more equal-signs on a line on their own produce a horizontal line.

Links to other pages both in this wiki and on the internet can be made in different ways.

Pages in DokuWiki are labelled <namespace>:<pagename>, which are all converted to lowercase letters, with no special characters allowed.
When a link is first created, it is red; when someone clicks on it, they will be asked to write the page. Once the page exists, links to it are green.

• Writing a WikiWord, or using CamelCase, automatically sets up a link within the same namespace.

• Or the label of a linkedpage can be put into double square brackets: [[linkedpage]].

• And the link can be given a Page name: [[linkedpage|Page name]].

Links to pages outside the wiki are recognisable but the little world-icon in front.

• Again, a URL (= internet address) can be put into double square brackets, and be given a name: http://www.wikipedia.org and link to Wikipedia were entered as
  [[http://www.wikipedia.org]] and [[http://www.wikipedia.org|link to Wikipedia]].

• But DokuWiki also recognises URLs: http://www.wikipedia.org and www.wikipedia.org were simply entered as text:
  http://www.wikipedia.org and www.wikipedia.org.

• One can also link to any section on a page by following the page name with # and the title of the section: link to the section above was entered as [[HowTo#Text Formatting|link to the section above]].
  (This can be problematic though, because someone else might edit the page and change the section title, causing the link to fail.)