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LayoutRules

If you follow these simple LayoutRules, your pages will look like good ol' plaintext. There is no MarkupLanguage involved. And yet, they are easily converted to HTML pages (WikiPublishing?).

• Blank lines separate paragraphs. Do not indent paragraphs. Each line should start at the first column.
• WikiNames are links to other pages. Linking is automatic.
• URLs are links to other pages on the WWW. Linking is automatic. Example: http://www.oocities.org/kensanata/.
• In order to prevent linewrapping, indent the text. This is great for source code. Example:

    (defun wiki-maybe ()
      "Maybe turn wiki-minor-mode on for this file."
      (when (wiki-file-p)
        (wiki-mode)))

• In order to quote or indent paragraphs, start the paragraph with a colon.

This paragraph is indented. Linewrapping is not disabled.

• Bullet lists are written by starting each list item with an Asterix "*" at the beginning of the line. Keep all list items in a paragraph to themselves. Example:

 * This is item one
 * This is item two
 * This is item three

• In order to emphasize text, enclose it within a pair of two single quotes ''like this''. Example: emphasis added

The emphasis rule can be used to disable some of these mechanics:

• To force WikiNames to link to WikiNames, write WikiName''''s
• To stop WikiNames from being a link, write Wiki''''Names
• When an asterix of yours is turned into a list item, write it like this:

''''* Not a list item....

If you are using WikiMode to maintain your own wiki, these LayoutRules are easily changed. Customize the wiki group within Emacs. There, you'll find the variable wiki-publishing-markup which contains RegularExpressions to search and replace in your wikis in order to produce the output you want when publishing.

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