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How to format text

Description You type You get
applies anywhere
Italic text italic italic
Bold text bold bold
Bold and italic bold & italic bold & italic
Escape wiki markup <nowiki>no markup</nowiki> no markup
only at the beginning of the line
Indent text :Indent text     Indent text

Headings ofdifferent levels

==level 1==
===level 2===
====level 3====
=====level 4=====

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4
Horizontal rule

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Bullet list

* one
* two
* three
** three and one-third
** three and two-thirds

  • one
  • two
  • three
    • three and one-third
    • three and two-thirds
Numbered list

# one
# two<br>spanning several lines<br>without breaking the numbering
# three
## three point one
## three point two

  1. one
  2. two
    spanning several lines
    without breaking the numbering
  3. three
    1. three point one
    2. three point two
Mixture of bulleted
and numbered lists

# one
# two
#* two point one
#* two point two

  1. one
  2. two
    • two point one
    • two point two
Definition list

;Definition

item 1
item 2

Definition</dt>
item 1</dd>
item 2</dd>

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