Text Formatting FAQ

The most frequently asked questions about text formatting are answered. Also, TextFormattingRules contains the complete TWiki shorthand system on one quick reference page.

If you need more colors you can use HTML, like <font color="#ff0000"> red text </font>. You can also use the up-to-date style attribute - ex: style="color:#ff0000" - placed in most HTML tags. span is an all-purpose choice: <span style="color:#ff0000">CoLoR</span>. Only old (like 3.x IE & NS) browsers have a problem with style.

Text Formatting FAQ

The most frequently asked questions about text formatting are answered. Also, TextFormattingRules contains the complete TWiki shorthand system on one quick reference page.

Text I enter gets wrapped around. How can I keep the formatting as it is?

TWiki interprets text as HTML, so you can use the preformatted HTML option to keep the new line of text as is. Enclose the text in <pre> </pre>, or in TWiki's own <verbatim> </verbatim> tag:

3. Use preformatted text with <verbatim> tags

Can I include images on a page?

The most frequently asked questions about text formatting are answered. Also, TextFormattingRules contains the complete TWiki shorthand system on one quick reference page.

The most frequently asked questions about text formatting are answered. Also, TextFormattingRules contains the complete TWiki shorthand system on one quick reference page.

This is a simple and automatic way of including inline images. Simply write the URL of the image file, this will create the inline image for you. NOTE: The images must be accessible as a URL.

You can upload images directly to your server with FTP access. You can also attach image files to a topic - you could even create a dedicated image topic, like ImageLibrary - and then link to the images directly:

This is a manual process where you have more control over the rendering of the image. Use the <img> tag of HTML to include GIF, JPG and PNG files. Note: The display of the topic is faster if you include the WIDTH and HEIGHT parameters that have the actual image size. http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/special/img.html has more on inline images.

Can I write colored text?

The most frequently asked questions about text formatting are answered. Also, TextFormattingRules contains the complete TWiki shorthand system on one quick reference page.

Can I write colored text?

The most frequently asked questions about text formatting are answered. Also, TextFormattingRules contains the complete TWiki shorthand system on one quick reference page.

The most frequently asked questions about text formatting are answered. Also, TextFormattingRules contains the complete TWiki shorthand system on one quick reference page.

How do I make a separator?

How do I create a heading?

You can create six sizes of headings - <h1>...<h6> in HTML - by typing, from the beginning of a line, three dashes (-), from one to six plus signs (+), a space, and your heading text. The FAQ questions on this page are created with: ---+++ Have a question?.

Text enclosed in angle brackets like <filename> is not displayed. How can I show it as it is?

If you want to display angle brackets, enter them as HTML codes instead of typing them in directly:

• < = <
  

Text I enter gets wrapped around. How can I keep the formatting as it is?

This text will keep its format as it is:
<verbatim>

How do I create tables?

1. Using URL ending in .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .png

• You enter: TWiki http://tukro.sourceforge.net/pub/wikiHome.gif logo.
  Result: TWiki logo.

Can I write colored text?

"colorCode" is the hexadecimal RGB color code, which is simply Red, Green and Blue values in hex notation (base 16, 0-F). For pure red, the RGB components are 255-0-0 - full red (255), no green or blue. That's FF-0-0 in hex, or "#ff000=" for Web page purposes. For a basic color selection (you can StandardColor names instead of hex code in the =font tag only):

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How do I make a separator?

How do I create a heading?

If you want to display angle brackets, enter them as HTML codes instead of typing them in directly:

How can I write fixed font text?

Text I enter gets wrapped around. How can I keep the formatting as it is?

This text will keep its format as it is:
<verbatim>

1. Use HTML tables with <table>, <tr>, <td> tags.
2. Use preformatted text with <verbatim> tags.

• Example text:
  | cell A1 | cell B1 | cell C1 |
  

<table border="1">

Can I include images and pictures?

There are actually two ways of including inline images.

This is a simple and automatic way of including inline images. Simply write the URL of the image file, this will create the inline image for you. Note: The images must be accessible as a URL.

This is a manual process where you have more control over the rendering of the image. Use the <img> tag of HTML to include GIF, JPG and PNG files. Note: The display of the topic is faster if you include the WIDTH and HEIGHT parameters that have the actual image size. http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/special/img.html has more on inline images.

Can I write colored text?

• The most frequently asked questions about text formatting are answered here.

How do I create a heading?

• You can insert a nested table of contents, generated from headings, by placing %TOC% wherever you like on a page (see TWikiVariables for more %TOC% options).

• Proportional text, =fixed font text=, proportional again. appears as...

Alternatively you could also use preformatted text, see next question for details.

Text I enter gets wrapped around. How can I keep the formatting as it is?

This text will keep its format as it is:

The pre tag is standard HTML; verbatim is a special TWiki tag that also forces text to fixed font mode, and also prevents other tags and TWiki shortcuts from being expanded.

1. Use Wiki rule with "|" vertical bars.
2. Use HTML tables with <table>, <tr>, <td> tags.

• Example text:
  | cell A1 | cell B1 | cell C1 |
  

This is a manual process using HTML commands. Here is an example. If you enter this:

It is displayed as a table like this:

Text I enter gets wrapped around. How can I keep the formatting as it is? See "Text enclosed..."

Can I include images and pictures?

There are actually two ways of including inline images.

This is a simple and automatic way of including inline images. Simply write the URL of the image file, this will create the inline image for you. Note: The images must be accessible as a URL.

Can I write colored text?

"colorCode" is the hexadecimal RGB color code. The color is composed by specifying the red, green and blue components of the color in

-- MikeMannix? - 10 Sep 2001

• The most frequently asked questions about text formatting are answered here.

How do I make a separator?

Text enclosed in angle brackets like <filename> is not displayed. How can I show it as it is?

Some words (like WinAPI?) have an unwanted question mark at the end. How can I prevent that?

How can I write fixed font text?

Alternatively you could also use preformatted text, see next question for details.

Text I enter gets wrapped around. How can I keep the formatting as it is?

This text will keep its format as it is:

How do I create tables?

There are three possibilities:

1. Use Wiki rule with "|" vertical bars.

1. Use preformatted text with <PRE> tags.

1. Use Wiki rule with "|" vertical bars

Text I enter gets wrapped around. How can I keep the formatting as it is? See "Text enclosed..."

Can I include images and pictures?

Yes, this is possible. The easiest way of including images is to attach a GIF or JPG file to a topic and then to include it with text %ATTACHURL%/myImage.gif . FileAttachment has more.

You can make a horizontal separator by writing 4 or more dashes at the beginning of a line.

This is an example header enclosed in Asterisk characters

This is an HTML heading

TWiki interprets text as HTML. The '<' and '>' characters are used to define HTML commands. Any valid text within angle brackets gets interpreted by the browser as an HTML command. Invalid text is ignored, that's why it doesn't show up.

• • Example: Write {is-writable} instead of <is-writable>

A question mark after a word is a link to a not yet existing topic. For example, WinAPI? is a valid WikiName, but the actual topic WinAPI does not exist.

If you do not intend to create a topic for a valid WikiWord, you can prevent it being linked by putting an HTML tag in front of it. I usually use <nop>. This is a non existing HTML tag, so a browser just ignores it.

Enclose text in "=" equal signs.

TWiki interprets text as HTML. It is possible to use preformatted text to work around this. Use the preformatted HTML tags to keep the new line of text as it is. Do so by enclosing the text with <PRE> and </PRE> tags, e.g.

There are three possibilities:

1. Use Wiki rule with "|" vertical bars.

3. Use preformatted text with <PRE> tags

Yes, this is possible. The easiest way of including images is to attach a GIF or JPG file to a topic and then to include it with text %ATTACHURL%/myImage.gif . FileAttachment has more.

• Example output:
  TWiki logo.

Place text you would like to specify a color inside <FONT COLOR="colorCode"> and </FONT> tags.

• Example output:
  Red color draws attention.

-- PeterThoeny - 18 Aug 2000

"colorCode" is the hexadecimal RGB color code. The color is composed by specifying the red, green and blue components of the color in

This is a manual process where you have more control over the rendering of the image. Use the <IMG> tag of HTML to include JPEG and GIF files. Note: The display of the topic is faster if you include the WIDTH and HEIGHT parameters that have the actual image size. http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/special/img.html has more on inline images.

Alternatively you could also use preformatted text, see next question for details.

1. Use HTML tables with <TABLE>, <TR>, <TD> tags.

2. Use HTML tables with <TABLE>, <TR>, <TD> tags

More information about HTML tables can be found at http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/table/table.html