This page contains the most frequently used wiki markup, briefly. Follow the links in each section to learn more.
Markup concepts introduction
Pm Wiki markup can be applied to 'blocks' of text, and to text 'lines'. Pm Wiki markup is also used to read and save page, group, and wiki metadata through the use of variables. Pm Wiki markup can be used to process metadata variables though expressions and #PageLists|pagelists. Pm Wiki provides a style? markup that can be applied to text, ListStyles|lists?, paragraphs, and blocks.
Text markup, also known as wikitext is variable, see below, and in general broadly follows wiki conventions. Text markup only applies to single lines of text, delimited by a Wikipedia:Newline|newline.
Block markup is applied to multiple lines of text as blocks and blocks.
In Pm Wiki the most important markup is the #Directives|directive.
The directive is signified by parenthesis and a colon, viz: (:...:).
The directive provides most of Pm Wiki's functionality.
expressions {(...)}, markup {$...}, and styles? %...% also provide Pm Wiki functionality.
Links
See Links
External links
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com"tool tip"]]
[[http://example.com | link text]]
[[link text -> http://example.com]]
Page links
[[PageName]]
[[page name]]
[[page (name)]]
[[PageName | link text]]
[[PageName | + ]] (titled link)
[[PageName | # ]] (anonymous numerical reference link)
[[PageName"tool tip"]]
[[link text -> PageName]]
[[#anchor]] (to create an anchor)
[[#anchor | link text]] (to refer to an anchor)
[[anchor | # ]] (anonymous numerical reference link)
[[PageName#anchor | link text]] (to refer to an anchor in another page)
See also WikiWord on how to enable WikiWord links.
Wiki Group links
See Links and Categories
[[GroupName/]] or [[Group name/]]
[[GroupName"tool tip"]]
[[GroupName.]]
[[GroupName/PageName]] or [[GroupName/page name]]
[[(GroupName.)page name]]
[[~Author Name]]
[[~Author Name | +]]
[[~Author Name | #]]
[[~Author Name | link text]]
[[~Author Name"tool tip"]]
[[!Category Name]]
Inter Map links
See InterMap
[[Path:/path/local_document.html]]
[[Wikipedia:WikiWikiWeb]]
Email links
mailto:someone@example.com
[[(mailto:)someone@example.com]]
[[mailto:someone@example.com | display text]]
[[display text -> mailto:someone@example.com]]
Upload links
See Uploads and #Images|Images
Attach:file.odt
[[(Attach:)file.odt]]
[[Attach:file.odt | alternative text ]]
[[Attach:file with spaces.pdf]]
[[Attach:Groupname./file with spaces.pdf]]
Schemes?
In addition to http:, https:, mailto: Pm Wiki also supports:
ftp:
news:
gopher:
nap:
file:
tel:
geo:
Images
Images as Images
http://example.com/image.gif
http://example.com/image.gif"alt text"
Attach:image.gif"My image"
Attach:Groupname./image.gif"image in another group"
Attach:Groupname.Pagename/image.gif"image on another page"
%lfloat% Attach:image.gif | Caption %% (could be %rfloat%, %center%, %rframe%, %lframe%, %frame% )
%width=200px% Attach:image.gif %%
%thumb% Attach:image.gif %%
Images as links
[[Attach:image.gif]]
[[(Attach:)image.gif]]
[[PageName | Attach:image.gif"alt text"]]
[[http://example.com/ | Attach:image.gif"alt text"]]
[[http://example.com/ | http://example.com/image.png"alt text"]] | Caption
%rframe thumb% [[Attach:image.gif | Attach:image.gif"alt text"]] | Caption
Start-of-line markup
* unordered list
** deeper list
# ordered list
# %item value=#% arbitrary start number
# %decimal%, %roman%, %ROMAN%, %alpha%, %ALPHA%
%comment%
:term:definition
Also
Q: start a question paragraph
A: start an answer paragraph
Headings
!! Heading
!!! Deeper heading
Paragraph blocks
-> indented text
-< hanging indent
<space> preformatted text
[@...@] preformatted block
---- (horizontal rule)
blank line is vertical space
\ at end of line joins next line
\\ at end of line produces a line break
\\\ at the end of a line produces a blank line, even within a list item
[[<<]] produces a line break that clears floating content
Division blocks
See markup?, styles? and directives?
>>wikistyle<<
>><<
(:div class="" style="":)
(:divend:)
>>comment<<
Text markup
Character format
''emphasized''
'''strong'''
'''''strong emphasis'''''
@@monospaced@@
[-small-], [--smaller--]
[+big+], [++bigger++]
'-small-', '+big+'
'^superscript^', '_subscript_'
{+inserted+} (underscore)
{-deleted-} (strikethrough)
[@escaped code@]
[=escaped text=]
Posting markup
~~~ (author's signature)
~~~~ (author's signature and date)
(:encrypt phrase:) -- replaced with encrypted form of phrase
Tables
Plain rows and columns of text
See Tables
||table attributes
||!table caption!||
||left aligned || centered || right aligned||
||!column heading||
||spanned columns ||||||
Structured tables
See directives?
(:table attr:)
(:cellnr attr:)
(:cell attr:)
(:tableend:)
Directives
Page directives
See directives?
(:redirect PageName:)
(:(no)spacewikiwords:)
(:(no)linkwikiwords:)
(:(no)linebreaks:)
Display
See directives? headers?
(:noheader:), (:nofooter:)
(:notitle:)
(:noleft:), (:noright:)
(:nogroupheader:), (:nogroupfooter:)
(:noaction:)
Metadata
See directives?, markup, variables?
(:title text:)
(:keywords word, ...:)
(:description text:)
(:comment text:)
{Group/PageName$:variable} includes from (:variable:text:)
Include
See other pages?, text variables?
(:include PageName:)
(:include PageName#start#end lines=n paras=n:)
(:include Page1 Page2 Page3:)
{Group/PageName$:Var} includes from (:name:text:)
(:nl:) separate included text by conditional line break
Conditional markup
(:if (!) cond param:)...(:ifend:)
(:if (!) cond param:)...(:else:)...(:ifend:)
(:if (!) cond param:)...(:elseif (!) cond param:)...(:ifend:)
Pagelists
(:searchbox label=label order=-time:)
(:searchresults incl -excl group=abc fmt=def:)
(:pagelist incl -excl group=abc fmt=def:)
Other directives
See directives?
(::)
(:markup:)...(:markupend:)
(:markup class=horiz:)...(:markupend:)
(:markup caption='...':)...(:markupend:)
(:messages:)
Forms
See Forms
(:input form method=get action=url enctype=multipart/form-data:)
(:input default name=xyz value="abc":)
(:input text name=first value="Bob" size=20:)
(:input textarea name=xyz [=value=] rows=2 cols=80:)
(:input submit name=post value="Go" accesskey=g:)
(:input reset:)
(:input hidden name=action value=edit:)
(:input radio name=xyz value="abc" checked=1:)
(:input checkbox name=xyz value="abc" checked=1:)
(:input password name=authpw:)
(:input file name=upload:)
(:input image name=xyz src="http:..." alt="Alt Text":)
(:input select name=xyz value="val1" label="Value 1":)
(:input select name=xyz value="val2" label="Value 2":)
(:input end:)
See also .
Wiki trails
<<|[[TrailPage]]|>>
<|[[TrailPage]]|>
^|[[TrailPage]]|^
Page variables
See variables?, text variables?,
{$variable}, {pagename$variable}, {groupname.pagename$variable}
{$:variable}, {pagename$:variable}, {groupname.pagename$:variable}
Set a text variable(s)?
(:name:description:)
:name:description
name:description
{*$variable}
{*$:variable}
list templates? | special variables
{=$variable}, {<$variable}, {>$variable},
{=$:variable}, {<$:variable}, {>$:variable},
Expressions
See expressions?
{(function args)}
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