• MayLith
• scratch-generic-boilerplate

Important: View the source of this page (click that little 'eye' icon) in order to see the page formatting I'm talking about. Otherwise, my comments will be confusing. Switch back and forth between the source and the "actual" page to see what formatting produces which effects.

Page title: You can title a page if you want, but remember that the wiki itself will show the name of the page in huge letters at the very top, so it's not absolutely necessary.

OTOH, if you have a large table of contents (TOC), you may or may not want to put a note ahead of the TOC (like this note, even though the TOC below is small.)

The three lines below: the two lines of four dashes just make horizontal lines and are not vital to the TOC, though they are semi-historical-standard here. At any rate, it sets the TOC off from the rest of the page, and that is useful in my book.

Headings get smaller, visually, and deprecate logically, with increasing numbers of ='s. Notice that only the stuff surrounded by ='s shows up in the TOC. (Though I think there are ways to control the depth of the TOC displayed... see SyntaxReference for details.)

Heading 1

foo

Subheading 1-A

foo

Subheading 1-B

foo

Sub-sub-heading 1-B-A

foo

Heading 2

This is an un-ordered list (bulleted list). Watch the leading spaces....

• first item
  • subitem
  • another subitem
    • a sub-sub-item
• another item
• yet another item

Heading 3

This is an ordered list (numbered list). Same thing with the leading spaces.

1. first item
   1. subitem
   2. another subitem
      1. a sub-sub-item
2. another item
3. yet another item

Heading 4

This is an example of combining ordered and unordered lists. Same thing with the leading spaces.

1. first item
   • . subitem
   • . another subitem
     1. a sub-sub-item
        • superfine detail
        • more superfine detail
2. another item
3. yet another item

Heading 5

Then, apparently, if you mess with it carefully, you can get other interesting effects like lettering, and case-sensitive lettering. (I found this out by experimentation.) So, basically, wiki supports basic outlining. Oooo.... ahhh...

1. first item
   1. subitem
   2. another subitem
      1. a sub-sub-item
      2. a sub-sub-item
      3. a sub-sub-item
2. another item
   1. another subitem
   2. another subitem
   3. and another
   4. and yet another
3. yet another item

Chatter

MayLith: I hope this is useful. (Maybe it can be cleaned up a bit...) Anyway, I'm done for tonight!

MayLith: Simon: two things... incidental only:

1. It doesn't matter whether you use the () in TOC or not, but it's good for users to know that both are okay.

2. I thought you didn't know anything about TOC?