Foswiki vs. alphawiki vs. ProWiki vs. PmWiki

WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]

1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]

CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]

[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]

External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]

1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]

http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]

http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]

---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6

1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)

= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =

! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3

*bold*

{b I am bold}

'''bold'''

'''bold'''

_italic_

{i I am italic}

''italic''

''italic''

<u>underline</u>

{u I am underline}

<u>underlined</u>

{+underlined+}

=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>

{pre I am monospace and preformated}

<tt>monospace</tt>

@@monospace@@

<strike>strikethrough</strike>

{del I am line-through}

[[strike]strikethrough text]

{-strikethrough-}

<sup>superscript</sup>

E = mc{sup 2}

<sup>text</sup>

'^superscript^'

<sub>subscript</sub>

Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}

<sub>text</sub>

'_subscript_'

%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%

1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}

http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]

https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS

{center I am centered}

only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame

<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>

{p I am an indented paragraph.}

: indented line
:: indented line

-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation

* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2

1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2

* bulleted list
** bulleted list

* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2

1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2

1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2

# numbered list
## numbered list

# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2

$ Term: Definition

{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}

; term: definition

: term : definition

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{hr}

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