If you get a Error 403: forbidden just return to the grey box and continue editing but contact Bonnie Dalzell about it also

Basic Syntax

Basic syntax is at:

http://www.dokuwiki.org/syntax

you can practice editing a page and use the playground to display it and you can even save it to the playground - see link above this box.

Bookmarks to anchors within pages (for example the glossary).
Our dokuwiki installation has the bookmark plugin installed this means you can do book marks this way:

a link is:

  [[article#anchorword|text within link]]

the anchor is:

 <BOOKMARK:anchorword> en 

Also there is a foot note feature. You put things in double parens like this:

  ((the footnote is in double parens and when the mouse hovers over it, the text of the footnote appears))

Here is a sentence with a footnote¹⁾ and the footnote also appears at the end of the document. This can be very useful in expanding a techical explaination where needed.

Click the discussion tab at the top, use the “creat a new page” tab.

It is possible to set the properties of individual pages so that they are not world viewable but only can be viewed by the group. Once the wiki is up and running this can be done with the comments pages.

  ending a sentance with double left slashes forces a line break\\

Our dokuwiki has simple tables installed.

To make a line in a table you use the following format

  ^ Row 1 |Column 1 | column 2 | Column 3|
  ^ Row 2 |Column 1 | column 2 | Column 3|

Which will then appear this way:

However large tables may be very tedious to construct by typing the information into the wiki were each row's cells are separated by a vertical bar. For one thing the table may already exist as a spreadsheet.

Making a table from columns typed one at a time.

A
B
C

1
2
3

XX
YY
ZZ

|
|
|

On a MAC in the default text editor you can cut and paste in “block mode”. Someone on the Wiki with a Wintel machine will need to add notes as to how to do this with a Windows system although the principle will be similar.

The wiki works best if it has its text in plain text mode (ASCII or western European iso 8859-1). Mostly this will make no difference but if you get unusual results you may have some non-printing control characters in your text.

Hold down an option key and use the mouse's left button to high light the column. do CommandKey+C to copy the high lighted region to the clipboard.

Go to where you want to paste this column and CommnanKey+V will paste it in place without creating carriage returns. This works in MAC OS 10.5.6 which is Leopard

so with 7 different column copy and pastes the following can be created:

  ^ A   | XX  |  1  |
  ^ B   | YY  |  2  |
  ^ C   | ZZ  |  3  |

then we add the wiki column code:

  ^Col1 |Col2 |Col3| 

at the top to make our table

 ^Col1 |Col2 |Col3|
 ^ A   | XX  |  1  |
 ^ B   | YY  |  2  |
 ^ C   | ZZ  |  3  |

It is important that there be no spaces to the left of the carets or vertical basr.

Linux text editors that have this block selection capability include nedit and Kate. in linux you may be able to block select from any shell using control+shift and the left mouse button.

Another possibility is to use a spreadsheet to create the table and then export it as a ascii/csv file using the vertical bar as your separator.

If you have a large complex table you can make it in a spreadsheet and then try and export it or select it and copy it to the clip board and then paste it into a text file.

You may have to alternate the data cell columns with columns consisting of vertical bars. To my frustration different spreadsheet applications have different ideas of what exporting consists of.

In linux with the spreadsheet gnumeric I can make a spreadsheet, add columns of | between the data columns and then highlight and copy the region to the clip board. Pasting this into the web page or into a text editor gives me a formatted wiki table. All I have to do is add the header line.

^Col1 |Col2 |Col3|

Ypu will have to experiment with your spreadsheet application to see if this works for you.

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