Formatting

Contents

  1. Formatting
    1. General
    2. Typeface
    3. Colorize text
    4. Colorize code (Syntax Highlighting)
    5. Examples
      1. Mixing ''italic'' and '''bold'''
      2. Superscript & Subscript
      3. Code blocks
        1. Nesting curly braces
        2. Colorized Code

This page describes using the MoinMoin wiki syntax (which is the default syntax for a MoinMoin based wiki, but not the only one). For other parsers/syntaxes take a look at HelpOnParsers.

General

  • Use one or more blank lines to separate paragraphs.

    • Use <<BR>> macro to insert linebreaks into paragraphs.

    Typeface

    Name/Sample Markup Notes italic ''italic'' Double single quotes. bold '''bold''' Triple single quotes. monospace `monospace` Single backticks for inline monospaced text. If possible, try to avoid long monospaced texts, especially inside tables: sometimes they are not properly wrapped by the browsers. Wiki markup is ignored. monospace {{{monospace}}} Same as backticks. Placing the braces in separate lines produces a code block. underline __underline__ superscript ^super^script subscript ,,sub,,script smaller ~-smaller-~ larger ~+larger+~ stroke --(stroke)--

    Colorize text

    Colorizing is enabled in tables without additional macros (see HelpOnTables).

    Colorize code (Syntax Highlighting)

    There are several ways to highlight code: Start a special code block containing the parser's name: {{{#!parsername Embed a file attachment bearing a supported extension (such as ".py") with {{attachment:test.py}}

    Begin a page with the format processing instruction: #format parsername

    Example.

    MoinMoin comes with a special parser called highlight that is based on Pygments internally.

    You can use it to highlight many sorts of programming source code, configuration files and other sorts of text files used on computers.

    Examples

    Mixing ''italic'' and '''bold'''

    Markup Result '''''Mix''' at the beginning'' Mix at the beginning '''''Mix'' at the beginning''' Mix at the beginning '''Mix at the ''end''''' Mix at the end ''Mix at the '''end'''''

    Mix at the end

    Superscript & Subscript

    You might recall ''a''^2^ `+` ''b''^2^ `=` ''c''^2^ from your math lessons, unless your head is filled with H,,2,,O.

    Result:

    You might recall a2 + b2 = c2 from your math lessons, unless your head is filled with H2O.

    Code blocks

    Markup: 

    {{{
10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
20 GOTO 10
}}}

    Result: 

    10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
20 GOTO 10

    Nesting curly braces

    As pointed out on HelpOnParsers, you can nest multiple levels of curly braces:

    Markup: 

    {{{{ 
This is a preformatted text block.
{{{ with curly braces inside }}}
}}}}

    Result: 

    This is a preformatted text block.
{{{ with curly braces inside }}}

    Colorized Code

    Markup: 

    {{{#!highlight python
from colors import palette
palette.colorize('python')
}}}

    Result: 

       1 from colors import palette
   2 palette.colorize('python')
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