| General Features | Wiki CSharp .NET | Foswiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | ProWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.4.2
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2.1.11
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2.67
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2.7.3
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2.0.045
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| Last Release Date |
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
|
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
|
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
|
2026-07-26 (3 days ago)
|
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2010-04-07 (16 years ago)
|
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
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2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
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2026-07-26 (3 days ago)
|
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
|
| Author |
Pier-Luc Duchaine
|
Foswiki Community
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Helmut Leitner
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL V3
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GPL
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GPL
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GPL2+
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
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Perl
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Perl
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PHP
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Perl
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| Data Storage |
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Files, RCS
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Files
|
Files
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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$0
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Pre-Alpha
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Private, small and big team
|
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
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Anyone
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All
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individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
|
| System Requirements | Wiki CSharp .NET | Foswiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | ProWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
Any
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Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Unix / Linux
|
| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
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Any, or none
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
|
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| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
none
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none
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| Datastorage | Wiki CSharp .NET | Foswiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | ProWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
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| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
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No
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No
|
No
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| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
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No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
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No
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No
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No
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| RCS |
No
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Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
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Yes
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| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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| Security/Anti-Spam | Wiki CSharp .NET | Foswiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | ProWiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
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| Host Blocking |
No
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Plugin
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Optional
|
No
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| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Wiki CSharp .NET | Foswiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | ProWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
118 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Wiki CSharp .NET | Foswiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | ProWiki |
| Preview |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
None
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
No
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | Wiki CSharp .NET | Foswiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | ProWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian |
| Email notification |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
|
| Categories |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Links | Wiki CSharp .NET | Foswiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | ProWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Wiki CSharp .NET | Foswiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | ProWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
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| Content Includes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Usability | Wiki CSharp .NET | Foswiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | ProWiki |
| Section Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Wiki CSharp .NET | Foswiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | ProWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Output | Wiki CSharp .NET | Foswiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | ProWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| RSS Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Raw Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Wiki CSharp .NET | Foswiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | ProWiki |
| File Attachments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
|
| Extras | Wiki CSharp .NET | Foswiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | ProWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Wiki CSharp .NET | Foswiki | ikiwiki | PmWiki | ProWiki |
| Internal Link |
[Internal] [[Internal][Displayed text]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[internal]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink] |
| External Link |
[http://...] [[http://...][Displayed text]] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[link text](http://example.org) |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
http://example.org InterWiki:page [some:link labelforlink] |
| Headlines |
+Header1 ++Header2 +++Header3 ++++Header4 |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
= Headline 1 = == Headline 2 = === Headline 3 = ==== Headline 4 = ===== Headline 5 = ====== Headline 6 = |
| Bold Format |
*Bold* |
*bold* |
**bold** __bold__ |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
=Italic= |
_italic_ |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
_Underline_ |
<u>underline</u> |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
{+underlined+} |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
[|Monospace formate|] |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
@@monospace@@ |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
-Strike- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
{-strikethrough-} |
[[strike]strikethrough text] |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
<sup>text</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
<sub>text</sub> |
| Images |
[$Image file$] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
  |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
http://example.org/file.jpg Upload:file.gif [[Image]...options...] |
| Aligning Text |
|
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
|
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
only as part of tables or citations [align:left|center|right] |
| Text Indentation |
|
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
|
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
: indented line :: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
-list1 --list2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* bulleted list ** bulleted list |
| Numbered Lists |
#list1 ##list2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# numbered list ## numbered list |
| Definition Lists |
|
$ Term: Definition |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
: term : definition |
; term: definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
___ |
--- |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
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