Help:Editing
Official Guides
Word formatting
- Emphasize
''Emphasize'', '''strongly''', '''''very strongly'''''
Emphasize, strongly, very strongly
- HTML tags you can use
Typewriter font for technical terms
<tt>monospace text</tt>
monospace text
Small text
<small>small text</small>
small text
Strikethru text
<s>strike out deleted material</s>
strike out deleted material
Headings
same as headlines/chapters/sections
First, second and third level headings
=New section= ==Subsection== ===Sub-subsection===
A first level heading is for example the "Word formatting" heading on this page. The "Bullet lists" heading on this page is an example of a 2rd level heading.
The "Table of contents" box you see at the top of this page will appear automatically when you have used 4 or more headings. First level headings are shown as x, 2rd level as x.x and so on.
Internal linking
[[Main Page]]
Becomes a link to the Main Page of this Wiki.
[[MPC|Musepack]]
Becomes a link to the MPC page but Musepack is written instead like this: Musepack
A postfix added right after a normal internal link is added to the written word in the final document, but links to the page without the postfix.
[[Critical band]]s
Becomes: Critical bands
- Linking to a headline at a wiki page.
You can link to a headline on another wiki page.
[[AAC#What's the best AAC encoder?]]
Becomes at link to the headline "What's the best AAC encoder?" at the AAC page like this: AAC#What's the best AAC encoder?
You can also replace the text written on the final page.
[[AAC#What's the best AAC encoder?|Read about the best AAC encoder]]
Becomes: Read about the best AAC encoder
External linking
Remember to start with "http://".
- Bare URL
http://www.rarewares.org/
Becomes http://www.rarewares.org/
- Named link
[http://www.rarewares.org/ The best audio resource on the net]
Becomes The best audio resource on the net
Lists
Bullet lists
You can make bullet lists with "*".
* First level list object ** Second level list object *** Third level list object * Another first level list object
- First level list object
- Second level list object
- Third level list object
- Second level list object
- Another first level list object
Numbered lists
You can make numbered lists with "#".
# First level list object ## Second level list object ### Third level list object # Another first level list object
- First level list object
- Second level list object
- Third level list object
- Second level list object
- Another first level list object
Mixed lists
You can even make mixed lists like this.
* You can even do mixed lists *# and nest them *#* like this
- You can even do mixed lists
- and nest them
- like this
- and nest them
Definition lists
;item : the item's definition
- item
- the item's definition
Images
You can insert images using the syntax:
[[Image:filename|options|caption text]]
The last item added will always be considered the caption text.
Stans alone image
[[Image:Small_HA_logo.png]]
Stans alone image with alt-text
You add "|caption text" after the image link. This is the text most browsers will show when you hover over the image with the mouse.
[[Image:Small_HA_logo.png|The HA logo]]
Image options
- thumbnail, thumb
- Generates an automatically resized thumbnail image (either reduced or enlarged).
- Caption text is displayed directly underneath. An "enlarge"-icon is added.
- If you do not specify where the image should be place it will be places to the right.
- Example to the right (in this example the image is enlarged because it is small):
[[Image:Small_HA_logo.png|thumb|The HA logo]]
- right
- Makes the image right-aligned.
- left
- Same as above, but left aligned.
- center
- Same as above, but centered.
- none
- The image will be rendered inline, even if the thumbnail-option is set.
- frame
- The image will have a frame, regardless of whether it is a thumb, and the caption text will be included as a visible caption.
- Example to the right:
- sizepx
- Renders a version of the image that's [size] pixels wide (e.g. '150px').
- Height is computed to keep the aspect ratio (i.e. the shape of the image).
- This allows both size reduction and enlargement.
- Combining options
- You can combine the options as you like. Example (as you see below resizing is often not very good):
[[Image:Small_HA_logo.png|50px|left|none|The HA logo]]
[[Image:Small_HA_logo.png|none|frame|The HA logo]]
Tables
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="3" | 1 || 2 |- | 3 || 4 |- | 5 || 6 |}
1 | 2 |
3 | 4 |
5 | 6 |
See also WikiMedia table guide
Using HTML
HTML is enabled at this wiki but you should only use it when you are quite sure that there is no way to do what you need to do without raw HTML. You should check the official guides first.
For special html tags you need to add "<html></html>" around your code.
Additional hints
You can avoid that the wiki system proccessing the text (to avoid unwanted formatting) by putting <nowiki></nowiki> around the text you want to parse directly.
Getting help
If you need help to work with the wiki you can do the following:
- Post at http://www.hydrogenaudio.org in the Wiki Forum
- PM "Jan S." at http://www.hydrogenaudio.org
- Email Jan S. at