wiki:PhoebeWikiFormatting
Last modified 11/02/07 23:05:41

Formatting Pages in the Phoebe Notepad

On this page:

  1. Font Styles
  2. Paragraphs
  3. Headings
  4. Heading level 3
  5. Links
  6. Horizontal lines
  7. Images

These guidelines are a shortened version of the Trac WikiFormatting page. Use your browser’s Print button or File menu to print them for easy reference.

Font Styles

These are the formatting features which you’re most likely to need: 

 * '''bold'''
 * ''italic''
 * '''''bold italic'''''
 * __underline__

Display:

  • bold
  • italic
  • bold italic
  • underline

Paragraphs

To start a new paragraph, you must leave at least one blank line after the previous one.

However, you can “force” a line break like this: 

Line 1[[BR]]Line 2

Displays:

Line 1
Line 2

Headings

To create a heading, start a line with one up to five equals signs (“=”), followed by a single space and the heading text. The text should end with a space, followed by the same number of “=” characters.

Note: Heading levels 1 and 2 are already used in the Notepad titles, so start at level 3.

Example: 

== Heading level 2 ==
=== Heading level 3 ===

Display:

Heading level 2

Heading level 3

Lists

The wiki supports both “bulleted” and numbered lists.

Example: 

 * Item 1
   * Item 1.1
 * Item 2

 1. Item 1
   1. Item 1.1
 1. Item 2

Display:

  • Item 1
    • Item 1.1
  • Item 2
  1. Item 1
    1. Item 1.1
  2. Item 2

Note: There must be one or more spaces preceding the list item markers; otherwise the list will be treated as a normal paragraph.

Indenting text

To indent a paragraph, start it with a space.

Example: 

 This text is a quote from someone else.

Displays:

This text is a quote from someone else.

Tables

Simple tables can be created like this: 

||Cell 1||Cell 2||Cell 3||
||Cell 4||Cell 5||Cell 6||

Display:

Cell 1Cell 2Cell 3
Cell 4Cell 5Cell 6

To create a link to another Website, simply type the URL.

Example: 

http://www.google.co.uk

Displays:  http://www.google.co.uk

To use a descriptive word or phrase rather than displaying the URL, type the URL, followed by a space and the description, and enclose them all in square brackets.

Example: 

Use a search engine such as [http://www.google.co.uk Google].

Displays: Use a search engine such as  Google.

Note: If you need to type a word in CamelCase (e.g. PowerPoint), then you must place an exclamation mark in front of the word. Otherwise, the wiki technology underlying Phoebe will treat it as a link to another, but non-existent, page in Phoebe – with unpredictable results.

Horizontal lines

To draw a horizontal line across the page, type four or more dashes by themselves on a line.

Example: 

 ----

Displays:

Images

We do not recommend inserting images into the Phoebe Notepad.