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Most of this website is a Wiki which means that anyone with an account can update or add content. Some of the content is restricted (for obvious reasons) to editing by the Committee, but the vast majority is intended to be a collaborative effort amongst the whole membership.
For the most part, you should just be able to type what you want and not have to think too much about the formatting. If you want to start a new paragraph, just leave an extra blank line between it and the preceeding one.
But if you do want to get a bit crazy and mix things up a bit with some links or a heading or 2, then the following should hopefully explain how to add them.
Headings can by added by putting equal signs on either side of some text like so:
== Heading ==
The top level heading uses 2 equal signs and is also used as the title of the page. For smaller subheadings etc...use either "===" or "===="
A list of items can be created by adding an asterix "*" at the start of the line.
* Apples
* Pears
* Bananas
You can nest several levels of lists by putting the appropriate number of asterixes to indicate what level the list item is at.
* First level
** Second level
*** Third level
If you want to have an ordered list, use a hash "#" instead of the asterix.
# Apples
# Pears
# Bananas
You can have a mixture of ordered and unordered lists by putting more than one # or * on each line.
To link to a page outside of the wiki enclose the URL inside square brackets. ie [http://www.ifis.org.uk/]. To give the link an appropriate piece of text for the link, put the title inside the square brackets after the URL like so [http://www.ifis.org.uk/ IFIS].
If you want to force a word or phrase to link to it's page in the wiki, enclose it in two pairs of square brackets, [[Apples]]. You can change the text used in the link by putting the new title after the page name and a pipe (|) character, [[Apples|Pears]]
You can link to an author in the library by putting their name prefixed with "author:" inside [[ ]] . For example [[author:Charles Stross]] would appear like Charles Stross. You can again change the text of the link by putting a | and then the text you want, which is useful if you want to refer to the author by their first or last name only.
You can also in a similar fashion link to members of the society [[person:Billy Bob]] or to places [[place:ALT2]].
Adding an image breaks up the monotony of seeing a wall of text. It works much the same way as links do and you put [[image:/images/newlogo.jpg|IFIS Logo]].
Aligning the image relative to the text that follows can be done like [[image:/images/newlogo.jpg|IFIS Logo|left]] or [[image:/images/newlogo.jpg|IFIS Logo|right]].
Changing the size [[image:/images/newlogo.jpg|IFIS Logo|Width x Height]]. The width or height can be specified in pixels (px), percentages (%) or relative to the font size (em). You can leave either of them blank, but if you're just specifying the height, you do still need the "x". Examples [[image:/images/newlogo.jpg|IFIS Logo|100%]], [[image:/images/newlogo.jpg|IFIS Logo|250px x 250px]] or [[image:/images/newlogo.jpg|IFIS Logo|x 10em]].
You can combine the alignment or size settings in either order: [[image:/images/newlogo.jpg|IFIS Logo|right|100%]] or [[image:/images/newlogo.jpg|IFIS Logo|100%|right]]
Four or more dashes indicates that a horizontal line should be drawn
To make something appear emphasised enclose it with a pair of single quotes either side; ie ''like this''. For greater emphasis increase the single quotes to 3 '''each side'''.
If there is anything other types of formatting that are needed, contact the webmaster with your suggestion.