Revision as of 17:46, 30 March 2015

Two Modes: page / edit

In page mode, you see what a visitor sees. In edit mode you see the page with formatting codes.

• Please enter edit mode by changing tabs from "page" to "edit" above (next to the picture, at the top). You may look at history too, but,
  
  

to understand the next part you must be in Edit mode!

Edit mode

using the buttons at the top of the edit box

Under the title of the page Sandbox (bac à sable) you should see 11 buttons.

• B = bold (French gras)
• I = italic
• Ab = internal link to a page like Poetry
• earth = external link to a page like [1]
• A = an automatic heading: not very useful if you master the = sign (see below)
• picture = to add a file (may not work yet)
• trumpet = media file (may not work yet)
• square root of n: math (formulae, special symbols)
• For non-formatted text
• (signature) Here's mine: --Mr. Shimanek 16:59, 30 March 2015 (CEST)
• can you delete this line and add your signature? (Leave the asterisk, please.)
• horizontal line...

Feel free to play, don't worry if you make a mistake. You can't break the wiki. Well, ok, maybe you can break it if you really try, but don't try, ok? ^^

You can type here:

to understand the next part you must be in Page mode!

using HTML

• <p> = opening tag for a paragraph, </p> = closing tag for a paragraph
• <span> = opening tag for a chunk of text, </span> = closing tag for a chunk of text
• <span style="color:darkgreen;"> = opening tag to color a chunk of text green, </span> = closing tag for the chunk of green text

• <br /> = opening and closing tag for a line break.

Feel free to switch back to Edit mode! and then back to Page mode. ^^

Example 1

this is a very short paragraph
. . . . . . . . . .
with two line breaks and ten pink dots

using wiki syntax

The number (#) sign

1. To make a numbered list...
2. Use # at the beginning of the line.
   1. To add a layer, use two!
   2. You can even do it twice.
      1. or even three times
3. That's how you make a numbered list.

The asterisk (*)

• To make a "bullet" list..
• Use an asterisk (*) at the start of the line.
  • To add a layer, use two!
    • or three.
• Pretty simple, huh?

The equal (=) sign

SOUNDS:           equal = 'i: kwəl           equality = i: 'kwal ɪ ti

The equal sign (=) is not used to mark equality in wiki syntax. Just as the # and * signs are used to mark the hierarchy of a list, = is used to add structure to the document. Look at the table of contents in the "page" view.

Then delete the asterisks at the beginning of the lines below:

• =Heading 1=
• ==Heading 2==
• ===Heading 3===
• ====Heading 4====
• =Heading 1=
• =Heading 1=