Compose tips

• Every instance of "[toc ...]" in the input text will be replaced with a collapsible mediawiki-style table of contents. Accepts options for title, list style, minimum heading level, and maximum heading level, and attachments as follows: [toc list: ol; title: Table of Contents; minlevel: 2; maxlevel: 3; attachments: yes;]. All arguments are optional.

• Allowed HTML tags: <del> <a> <em> <strong> <strike> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <img> <span> <pre> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <!--tableofcontents--> <sub> <sup> <table> <tr> <td> <th> <blockquote> <br> <p> <object> <embed> <param>

  This site allows HTML content. While learning all of HTML may feel intimidating, learning how to use a very small number of the most basic HTML "tags" is very easy. This table provides examples for each tag that is enabled on this site.

  For more information see W3C's HTML Specifications or use your favorite search engine to find other sites that explain HTML.

  Tag Description	You Type	You Get
  Deleted	<del>Deleted</del>	Deleted
  Anchors are used to make links to other pages.	<a href="http://www.rpdev.net/home">RPdev</a>	RPdev
  Emphasized	<em>Emphasized</em>	Emphasized
  Strong	<strong>Strong</strong>	Strong
  No help provided for tag strike.
  Cited	<cite>Cited</cite>	Cited
  Coded text used to show programming source code	<code>Coded</code>	Coded
  Unordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item	<ul> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ul>	First item Second item
  Ordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item	<ol> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ol>	First item Second item
  Definition lists are similar to other HTML lists. <dl> begins the definition list, <dt> begins the definition term and <dd> begins the definition description.	<dl> <dt>First term</dt> <dd>First definition</dd> <dt>Second term</dt> <dd>Second definition</dd> </dl>	First term First definition Second term Second definition
  No help provided for tag img.
  No help provided for tag span.
  Preformatted	<pre>Preformatted</pre>	Preformatted
  Header	<h1>Title</h1>	Title
  Header	<h2>Subtitle</h2>	Subtitle
  Header	<h3>Subtitle three</h3>	Subtitle three
  Header	<h4>Subtitle four</h4>	Subtitle four
  Header	<h5>Subtitle five</h5>	Subtitle five
  Header	<h6>Subtitle six</h6>	Subtitle six
  Subscripted	<sub>Sub</sub>scripted	Subscripted
  Superscripted	<sup>Super</sup>scripted	Superscripted
  Table	<table> <tr><th>Table header</th></tr> <tr><td>Table cell</td></tr> </table>	Table header Table cell
  Block quoted	<blockquote>Block quoted</blockquote>	Block quoted
  By default line break tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones. Use of this tag is different because it is not used with an open/close pair like all the others. Use the extra " /" inside the tag to maintain XHTML 1.0 compatibility	Text with <br />line break	Text with line break
  By default paragraph tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones.	<p>Paragraph one.</p> <p>Paragraph two.</p>	Paragraph one. Paragraph two.
  No help provided for tag object.
  No help provided for tag embed.
  No help provided for tag param.

  Most unusual characters can be directly entered without any problems.

  If you do encounter problems, try using HTML character entities. A common example looks like &amp; for an ampersand & character. For a full list of entities see HTML's entities page. Some of the available characters include:

  Character Description	You Type	You Get
  Ampersand	&	&
  Greater than	>	>
  Less than	&lt;	<
  Quotation mark	&quot;	"

• Lines and paragraphs are automatically recognized. The <br /> line break, <p> paragraph and </p> close paragraph tags are inserted automatically. If paragraphs are not recognized simply add a couple blank lines.
• Images can be added to this post.
• You can insert a blockquote directly into texts with; <blockquote>This text becomes a blockquote.</blockquote>.
• This is an example format which provides a wikimedia-style input format.
• You can insert footnotes directly into texts with [fn]This text becomes a footnote.[/fn]. This will be replaced with a running number (the footnote reference) and the text within the [fn] tags will be moved to the bottom of the page (the footnote).

• Syntax highlighting of source code can be enabled with the following tags:

  • Generic syntax highlighting tags: "<code>", "<blockcode>".
  • Language specific syntax highlighting tags: .

  Options and tips:

  • The language for the generic syntax highlighting tags can be specified with one of the attribute(s): type, lang, language, class. The possible values are: "bash" (for Bash), "c" (for C), "cpp" (for C++), "cpp-qt" (for C++ (QT)), "csharp" (for C#), "delphi" (for Delphi), "drupal5" (for Drupal 5), "drupal6" (for Drupal 6), "gettext" (for GNU Gettext), "glsl" (for glSlang), "haskell" (for Haskell), "html4strict" (for HTML), "ini" (for INI), "java" (for Java), "javascript" (for Javascript), "latex" (for LaTeX), "lua" (for Lua), "pascal" (for Pascal), "php" (for PHP), "python" (for Python), "ruby" (for Ruby).
  • The supported tag styles are: <foo>, [foo], [[foo]].
  • Line numbering can be enabled/disabled with the attribute "linenumbers". Possible values are: "off" for no line numbers, "normal" for normal line numbers and "fancy" for fancy line numbers (every n^th line number highlighted). The start line number can be specified with the attribute "start", which implicitly enables normal line numbering. For fancy line numbering the interval for the highlighted line numbers can be specified with the attribute "fancy", which implicitly enables fancy line numbering.
  • If the source code between the tags contains a newline (e.g. immediatly after the opening tag), the highlighted source code will be displayed as a code block. Otherwise it will be displayed inline.
  • A title can be added to a code block with the attribute "title".

  Defaults:

  • Default highlighting mode for generic syntax highlighting tags: when no language attribute is specified, no syntax highlighting will be done.
  • Default line numbering: no line numbers.

  Examples:

  You type	You get
  <code>foo = "bar";</code>	Inline code with the default syntax highlighting mode.
  <code> foo = "bar"; baz = "foz"; </code>	Code block with the default syntax highlighting mode.
  <code lang="python" linenumbers="normal"> foo = "bar"; baz = "foz"; </code>	Code block with syntax highlighting for Python source code and normal line numbers.
  <code language="python" start="23" fancy="7"> foo = "bar"; baz = "foz"; </code>	Code block with syntax highlighting for Python source code, line numbers starting from 23 and highlighted line numbers every 7th line.

• Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.