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Wikitext Examples

Basic Text Formatting

Italicized text    You can italicize text by putting 2 aposto- phes on each side. Bold text          3 apostrophes will bold the text. Italicized and     5 apostrophes will bold and italicize bold               the text. (4 apostrophes don't do anything special--                   they are just 'left over ones' that are                     included as part of the text.                    Eg. 'left over ones'--bold, in italics. Newline             A single newline generally has no effect on the                     layout.  These can be used to separate sentences                     within a paragraph.  Some editors find that this                     aids editing and improves the "diff" function.                    (used internally to compare different versions of a page.)

But an empty line starts a new paragraph.

When used in a list, a newline "does " affect the layout.( see below)

Break line         You can break a line without a new para- graph.

A caution          Please do not start a link or italicsor                    bold on one line and close it on the next.