Help:Tutorial/Formatting
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Formatting a PathfinderWiki article is a bit different from writing on a standard word processor. The Visual Editor offers a "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) approach, which is an abstraction of text codes that create and format elements in an article. This lightweight markup language is known as Wikitext (or Wiki-markup) and is designed for ease of editing.
Bold and italics
The most commonly used wiki tags are bold and italics. Bolding and italicizing are done by surrounding a word or phrase with multiple apostrophes ('):
| You type | You get |
|---|---|
| ''italic'' | italic |
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'''bold''' |
bold |
|
'''''bold italic''''' |
bold italic |
On PathfinderWiki, the name of an article's subject is written in bold when first mentioned in the article, also called a self-reference. For example, the article Absalom begins:
- For more than 4,000 years, Absalom (pronounced AB-sah-lahm) has been the City at the Center of the World, a metropolis-sized showcase of the greatest treasures in all Golarion ...
Italics can be used for the names of books, movies, albums, and computer/video game titles. If the first mention of the subject of an article is also a book title, then bold italic is used.
For more information about using bold and italics, see the PathfinderWiki Manual of style.
Headings and subheadings
Headings and subheadings organize an article's contents and populate its table of contents. If you can see two or more distinct topics being discussed, with more than a couple paragraphs for each, you can make the article more readable by inserting a heading for each topic—that is, making each into its own section.
Headings are created like this:
| You type | You get |
|---|---|
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==Absalom geography== |
Absalom geography |
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===City districts=== |
City districts |
If an article has at least four headings, the wiki automatically generates a table of contents. Try creating a heading in this page's sandbox. It will be added automatically to the table of contents for the page, assuming three others already exist.
Space between paragraphs
A single line break in wikitext doesn't render in an article. For instance:
This line break
doesn't appear.
appears as
This line break doesn't appear.
To start a new paragraph, add a blank line between paragraphs. To force a line break, use the <br /> HTML tag.
HTML
Wikitext contains all the features required to follow PathfinderWiki's formatting conventions. You do not need to know HTML or CSS code, although they are often used for more specific formatting, such as using colors, text and paragraph styles, and page layout.
You can also check out an annotated example page.