User:Blast/tutorial2

Next, text!

Don't groan&mdash;it's not that bad. There are some advanced uses of HTML and wikimarkup for text, but you'll learn that on your own at a later date. Right now, let's focus on the basics.

First, the most basic of text modification: bold and italic (and both).

italic text italic text

bold text bold text

bold and italic text bold and italic text

Next, there's indents. These are easy to do. Just type a : directly before any text (make sure it is the first character on that line), and type after it. You can stack these, as well, like so:


 * test
 * test


 * test
 * test
 * test

Next, page breaks. Useful for when you want to do

this

but don't want the little space in between the lines.

This is easy to do: just type

There is no closing tag for this!

Sometimes, you'll see

which is basically the same thing.

Example: text text

Don't put the  tag on the bottom of the list!

There are two list formats that will on occasion be useful to you:

The first is bullet-style, and the second is numbered. Neither of these require the  tag&mdash; they automatically do this. So just hit enter after you're done with a line, and start on a new one directly below it.

The first can be stacked, like so:


 * level 1
 * level 2
 * level 3
 * level 4

etc.

This is done with a *. For the sub-tiers, just put ** or ***, and so on, depending on the level. Stylistically speaking, it's easier on the editors if you put a space after the end * and before the actual text.

The other way to do lists is numbered (these can't be stacked, like bullets). All you type is a #, which gives a list like this:


 * 1) no. 1
 * 2) no. 2
 * 3) no. 3
 * 4) no. 4

Lastly, I want to go over something you will see everywhere. It's called wikilinking, and it works like this:

link name

The link is actually the title of the page, not the URL. So if I wanted to link to the previous page, I would put

User:Blast/tutorial1

which would give User:Blast/tutorial1.

Now, the second part of wikilinking&mdash;the name&mdash;is just what you want to appear as the text when you link to something.

Say I wanted to link to the same page as before, but I wanted it to appear as something different. I'd then put

abc

which would show up as abc.

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