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=== Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines ===
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<th>What it looks like</th>
<th>What you type</th>
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Start your sections with header lines:
<!-- This is the original
== New section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
-->
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<h2> New section </h2>
<h3> Subsection </h3>
<h4> Sub-subsection </h4>
-->
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<b><font style="font-size:120%"> New section </font></b>
<b><font style="font-size:110%"> Subsection</font></b>
<b><font style="font-size:100%"> Sub-subsection</font></b>
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<td><pre><nowiki>
== New section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
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[[en:newline|Newline]]:
A single
newline
has no
effect on the
layout.
But an empty line
starts a new paragraph.
(<nowiki><p></nowiki> disables this paragraphing until <nowiki></p></nowiki> or the end of the section)
(in Cologne Blue two newlines and a div tag give just one newline; in the order newline, div tag, newline, the result is two newlines)
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<pre><nowiki>
A single
newline
has no
effect on the
layout.
But an empty line
starts a new paragraph.</nowiki></pre>
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<tr valign="top"><td>You can break lines<br>
without starting a new paragraph.<p>
Sufficient as wikitext code is <br>, the XHTML code <br /> is not needed, the system produces this code.</p></td>
<td><pre><nowiki>You can break lines<br>
without starting a new paragraph.</nowiki></pre>
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* Lists are easy to do:
** start every line with a star
*** more stars means deeper levels
*A newline
*in a list
marks the end of the list.
*Of course
*you can
*start again.
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<td><pre><nowiki>* Lists are easy to do:
** start every line with a star
*** more stars means deeper levels
*A newline
*in a list
marks the end of the list.
*Of course
*you can
*start again.
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# Numbered lists are also good
## very organized
## easy to follow
#A newline
#in a list
marks the end of the list.
#New numbering starts
#with 1.
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<td><pre><nowiki># Numbered lists are also good
## very organized
## easy to follow
#A newline
#in a list
marks the end of the list.
#New numbering starts
#with 1.
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* You can even do mixed lists
*# and nest them
*#* like this<br>or have newlines<br>inside lists
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<td><pre><nowiki>* You can even do mixed lists
*# and nest them
*#* like this<br>or have newlines<br>inside lists</nowiki></pre>
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* You can also
**break lines<br>inside lists<br>like this
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<td><pre><nowiki>* You can also
**break lines<br>inside lists<br>like this</nowiki></pre>
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; Definition list : list of definitions
; item : the item's definition
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<td><pre><nowiki>; Definition list : list
of definitions
; item : the item's definition</nowiki></pre>
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:A colon indents a line or paragraph.
A manual newline starts a new paragraph.
* This is primarily for displayed material, but is also used for discussion on [[Help:Talk page|Talk page]]s.
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<td><pre><nowiki>: A colon indents a line or paragraph.
A manual newline starts a new paragraph.
</nowiki></pre>
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<pre><nowiki>IF a line of plain text starts with a space THEN
it will be formatted exactly
as typed;
in a fixed-width font;
lines won't wrap;
ENDIF
this is useful for:
* pasting preformatted text;
* algorithm descriptions;
* program source code
* ASCII art;
* chemical structures;</nowiki></pre>
WARNING If you make it wide,
you [[en:page widening|force the whole page to be wide]] and
hence less readable. Never start ordinary lines with spaces.<br>
<center>(see also below)</center>
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<td><pre><nowiki> IF a line of plain text starts with a space THEN
it will be formatted exactly
as typed;
in a fixed-width font;
lines won't wrap;
ENDIF
this is useful for:
* pasting preformatted text;
* algorithm descriptions;
* program source code
* ASCII art;
* chemical structures;</nowiki></pre></td>
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<tr valign="top"><td><center>Centered text.</center>
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<td><pre><nowiki><center>Centered text.</center></nowiki></pre>
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<td>A [[en:horizontal dividing line|horizontal dividing line]]: above
----
and below.
Mainly useful for separating threads on Talk pages.
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<td><pre><nowiki>A horizontal dividing line: above
----
and below. </nowiki></pre>
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Summarizing the effect of a single newline: no effect in general, but it ends a list item or indented part; thus changing some text into a list item, or indenting it, is more cumbersome if it contains newlines, they have to be removed; see also [[w:Wikipedia:Don't use line breaks]].