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LINKS

The Collaborative Work Area is a bunch of related links that are editable through your web browser.

The TWiki web has the following types of internal links:

• GoodStyle is a WikiWord that links to the GoodStyle topic located in the current TWiki web.
• NotExistingYet? is a topic waiting to be written. You could create that topic by clicking on the question mark. (Do not create that topic; you would wreck this example!)

External links:

• http://..., https://..., ftp://... and mailto:...@... are linked automatically.
• Email addresses like name@domain.com are linked automatically.

EDITING

• CapitalizedWordsStuckTogether (or WikiWords) will produce a link automatically. In case you want to link to a topic in a different TWiki web write Web.TopicName, i.e. write Know.ReadmeFirst to link to ReadmeFirst located in the Know web.
• You can create a forced internal link by enclosing words in double square brackets, i.e. write [[text formatting FAQ]] to get text formatting FAQ that links to topic TextFormattingFAQ. Text within the brackets may contain optional spaces; the topic name is formed by capitalizing the initial letter and by removing the spaces. You can also refer to a different web, i.e. [[Main.TWiki users]] points to TWikiUsers in the Main web.
• Blank lines will create new paragraphs.
• Words get bold by enclosing them in * asterisks
• Words get italic by enclosing them in _ underscores
• Words get bold italic by enclosing them in __ double-underscores
• Words get shown in fixed font by enclosing them in = equal signs
• Note for bold , italic , bold italic and fixed font text:
  • Make sure to "stick" the * _ = signs to the characters, e.g.
    • This works
    • _This does not get italic because there is a space between the last word and the underline character _
  • Example text to enter:
    • Writing *bold text* , _italic text_ and =fixed== monospaced text
  • Example text gets rendered as:
    • Writing bold text , italic text and fixed= monospaced text
• Separator: at least four dashes at the beginning of a line: <-------->
• List Item: 3 spaces and an asterisk: <   *>
• Nested Item: 6 spaces and an asterisk: <      *>
• Ordered List: 3 spaces and a number: <   1>
• Definition: 3 spaces, the term, a colon, followed by the definition: <   term: definition>
  Note that terms with spaces are not supported. In case you do have a term with more then one word, separate the words with dashes or with the non-breaking-space entity, i.e. write Character Set: to get Character Set:.
• Table: Optional spaces followed by the cells enclosed in vertical bars: <   | cell 1 | cell 2 | cell 3 | ... |>

HTML

Most HTML tags will work, but it's almost always preferable not to use HTML, so that the markup remains easy for everyone to edit.

• Overview of all HTML elements at http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/overview.html
• HTML 3.2 Reference Specification at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32.html

WIKI VARIABLES

Variables are names that are enclosed in percent signs; they get expanded on the fly.

• %WEB% : The current web, is TWiki .
• %TOPIC% : The current topic name, is TextFormattingRules .
• %ATTACHURL% : The attachment URL of the current topic. Example usage: If you attach a file to a topic you can refer to it as %ATTACHURL%/image.gif to show the URL of the file or the image in your text.
• %INCLUDE{"SomeTopic"}% : Server side include, includes another topic. The current TWiki web is the default web. Example: %INCLUDE{"TWiki.TWikiWebsTable"}%
• There are many more variables, see TWikiVariables.