General Features | Foswiki | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | TWiki | Instiki |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Version |
2.1.8
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2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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2.3.13
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6.1.25
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TWiki-6.1.0
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0.30.0
|
Last Release Date |
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
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2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
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2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
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2024-04-11 (12 days ago)
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2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
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2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
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2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
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2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
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2024-04-11 (12 days ago)
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2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
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2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
|
Author |
Foswiki Community
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Alex Schroeder
|
WackoWiki Team
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
|
URL | ||||||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
License |
GPL
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GPL 2
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GPL
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
Ruby's
|
Programming Language |
Perl
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PHP
|
Perl
|
PHP
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Perl, JavaScript
|
Ruby on Rails
|
Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Files
|
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
0
|
free
|
0
|
N/A
|
0
|
Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
family people, hackers
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
general, education
|
System Requirements | Foswiki | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | TWiki | Instiki |
Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Anything supported by Perl
|
OS Independent
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
|
Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Webserver |
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Anything supporting CGI scripts
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
|
Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
Writable data directory
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
Ruby 2.0-2.6
|
|
Datastorage | Foswiki | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | TWiki | Instiki |
Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
MySQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
None
|
No
|
MariaDB
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
|
Security/Anti-Spam | Foswiki | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | TWiki | Instiki |
Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
None (use your web server instead)
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
|
Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
nofollow |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Development/Support | Foswiki | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | TWiki | Instiki |
# of Consultants | ||||||
Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Code Repository | ||||||
Issue Tracker | ||||||
Mailing List | ||||||
Support Forum | ||||||
Chat Channel | ||||||
Stars on GitHub |
97 ⭐
|
3582 ⭐
|
67 ⭐
|
32 ⭐
|
N/A
|
478 ⭐
|
Common Features | Foswiki | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | TWiki | Instiki |
Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Age
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Special Features | Foswiki | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | TWiki | Instiki |
Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Interface Languages |
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 |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Comments |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
No
|
Categories |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Links | Foswiki | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | TWiki | Instiki |
CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Syntax Features | Foswiki | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | TWiki | Instiki |
HTML Tags |
All
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
All
|
All
|
All
|
Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Textile Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Custom styles |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
Optional, PHP
|
Perl
|
actions (PHP)
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
None
|
Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Usability | Foswiki | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | TWiki | Instiki |
Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Statistics | Foswiki | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | TWiki | Instiki |
Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Wanted Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Output | Foswiki | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | TWiki | Instiki |
Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
XML export |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Office Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Media and Files | Foswiki | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | TWiki | Instiki |
File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Media Search |
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
No
|
Extras | Foswiki | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | TWiki | Instiki |
Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Presentations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Forums |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Blogs |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Chat |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Syntax Examples | Foswiki | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | WackoWiki | TWiki | Instiki |
Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
optional, default on: [[page name]] optional, default off: PageName [PageName] → [1] [[[page name]]] → [1] [PageName text] → text [[page name|text]] → text Depending on plugins: [text](page) → text |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
External Link |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
http://example.com/ [http://example.com/] → [1] optional, default on: [http://example.com/ text] → text Depending on plugins: [text](http://example.com/) → text |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
[another site](http://example.com) |
Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
Depending on plugins: ## two ### three == two == === three == section ======= subsection ---------- |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
Bold Format |
*bold* |
**bold** |
Depending on plugins: *bold* **bold* '''bold''' |
**bold** |
*bold* |
**bold** |
Italics Format |
_italic_ |
//italics// |
Depending on plugins: *italic* /italic/ //italic// ''italic'' |
//italics// |
_italic_ |
_italic_, *italic* |
Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
__underlined__ |
Depending on plugins: _underline_ __underline__ |
__underline__ |
<u>underline</u> |
underlined {: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
''monospace'' |
Depending on plugins: `mono` ##mono## [code]mono[/code] <tt>mono</tt> <code>mono</code> |
##monospace## |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
`monospace` |
Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
via bbCode plugin: [s]strike through[/s] |
--strikethrough-- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<del>strikethrough</del> strikethrough {: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
via bbCode plugin: [sup]superscript[/sup] |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
via bbCode plugin: [sub]subscript[/sub] |
vvsubscriptvv |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png %IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
{{local.jpg}} {{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
http://example.com/pic.jpg Depending on plugins: [[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants ![text](URL) |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg), [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
Plugin |
no example known |
{html}<div align="right">{html} %%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center") content%% |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
p{: style='text-align:left'} p{: style='text-align:right'} p{: style='text-align:center'} p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
N/A |
Depending on plugins: > text [quote] text [/quote] : one :: two |
one two |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
p {: style='margin-left:3em'} > blockquote |
Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* one ** two |
*one **One-two *two *three |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
Depending on plugins: 1. one 2. two # one ## two |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
Plugin |
Depending on plugins: ; term: definition |
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