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Text formatting rules

SnipSnap text may contain the following filter rules and macros to format text. This includes simple filters for bold and italic as well as special macros for tables and source code.

Simple text filters

Mnemonic	Rendering	Comment
1 Title		a style 1 heading (major heading)
1.1 Title		a style 1.1 heading (minor heading)
- text		a list item (with -), several lines create a single list
* text		a list item (with *)
1. text		an enumerated list
a. text		alphabetical enumerated list
A. text		uppercase alphabetical enumerated list
i. text		roman enumerated list
I. text		uppercase roman enumerated list
g. text		greek enumerated list
h. text		hiragana (japanese) enumerated list
k. text		katakana (japanese) enumerated list
j. text		hebrew enumerated list
__bold__	bold	simple bold text
~~italics~~	italics	simple italic text
--strike--	strike	strike through text
(empty line)		produces a new paragraph
\\		creates a line break, please use sparingly!
[start]	start	internal link to another document
http://snipsnap.org/	SnipSnap	links to an external resource are made as follows: {link:NAME OF LINK|http://www.xyz.com}. for example, the link to the left was formed by typing {link:SnipSnap|http://snipsnap.org} special characters that come after the URL and are not part of it must be separated with a space.
\X	X	escape special character X (i.e. {)

Available Macros