Tips for editing the Wiki

Basic formatting

The Wiki is written in a format known as 'markdown' - this uses the '.md' file extension and is an easy way to produce basic text formatting from a simple text file. You can find detailed information on the different formatting options here, but the most useful are probably:

# Header1
## Header2
### Header3
*Italic characters* or _Italic characters_, **bold characters** or __bold characters__

These come out as:

Header1

Header2

Header3

Italic characters or Italic characters, bold characters or bold characters

Syntax highlighting

You can also create syntax highlighted code snippets. Here's an example of some Python code:

def wiki_rocks(text):
    formatter = lambda t: "funky"+t
    return formatter(text)