Formatting

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You can format your text by using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, apostrophes or equal signs which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in *italic*, you include it in two pairs of apostrophes like `''this''`.

## Text formatting markup

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## Paragraphs

MediaWiki ignores single line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can force a line break within a paragraph with the HTML tag `<br />`.

## HTML tags

Some HTML tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <tvar|1>Template:Tag</>, <tvar|2>Template:Tag</>, and <tvar|3>Template:Tag</>. These apply anywhere you insert them.
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<pre>
<translate><!--T:127--> This long sentence is used to demonstrate text wrapping. This additional sentence makes the text even longer. This additional sentence makes the text even longer.</translate>
</pre>

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<translate><!--T:128--> This long sentence is used to demonstrate text wrapping. This additional sentence makes the text even longer. This additional sentence makes the text even longer.</translate>

 <translate> **Customized** preformatted text with **disabled** text wrapping</translate>
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<pre style="white-space: pre;">
<translate><!--T:130--> This long sentence is used to demonstrate text wrapping. This additional sentence makes the text even longer. This additional sentence makes the text even longer.</translate>
</pre>

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<translate><!--T:131--> This long sentence is used to demonstrate text wrapping. This additional sentence makes the text even longer. This additional sentence makes the text even longer.</translate>

```

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## Inserting symbols

Symbols and other special characters not available on your keyboard can be inserted in a multitude of ways. Many Operating Systems and browsers allow you to insert special characters through a menu option or Operating System panel. Additionally, you can use the WikiEditor or VisualEditor to insert them into the edit screen.

As a last resort, you can use a special sequence of characters. Those sequences are called HTML entities. For example, the following sequence (entity) **&rarr;** when inserted will be shown as right arrow HTML symbol → and **&mdash;** when inserted will be shown as an em dash HTML symbol —. </translate>

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See the list of all HTML entities on the Wikipedia article List of HTML entities. Additionally, MediaWiki supports two non-standard entity reference sequences: `&רלמ;` and `&رلم;` which are both considered equivalent to `&rlm;` which is a right-to-left mark. (Used when combining right to left languages with left to right languages in the same page.)

## HTML tags and symbol entities displayed themselves (with and without interpreting them)

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`&amp;euro;`  → **&euro;**
`<span style="color: red; text-decoration: line-through;"><translate> Typo to be corrected</translate></span>`  → **<translate> Typo to be corrected</translate>**
`<translate> &lt;span style="color: red; text-decoration: line-through;">Typo to be corrected</span></translate>`  → **<span style="color: red; text-decoration: line-through;"><translate> Typo to be corrected</translate></span>**
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### Nowiki for HTML

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* <<nowiki />pre>  → <pre>

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* &<nowiki />amp;  → &

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To print & symbol escapes as text, use "`&amp;`" to replace the "&" character (eg. type "`&amp;nbsp;`", which results in "`&nbsp;`").

## Other formatting

Beyond the text formatting markup shown hereinbefore, here are some other formatting references:
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* LanguageConverter markup – see [[<tvar|1>Special:MyLanguage/Writing systems/Syntax</>|Writing systems/Syntax]]</translate>

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* References – see [[<tvar|citephp>Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Cite/Cite.php</>|Extension:Cite/Cite.php]]
* [[<tvar|tables>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Tables</>|Tables]]

You can find more references at [[<tvar|help-contents>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents</>|Help:Contents]].

## References

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