Structured text is an easy to use shorthand method for formatting text in your web pages. It allows rapid and simple editing of text in a plain text view as an alternative to a WYSIWYG or direct HTML editor. Simple text structures are used that are translated to HTML when viewed in a web browser. Pages created with structured text automatically take on the style and appearance of the Web site they are created on. You should normally use structured text in Structured Text or Wiki pages, but you may also use simple HTML tags in those pages if necessary (see HTMLBasics). Restructured text is an extended version of structured text which you may also use if the page type is set to reStructured Text.
Structured text rules:
Separate paragraphs with at least one blank line in between.
Type out the heading; indent the first line of the next paragraph using a single space.
Place a dash (-) before each item in your list. Double space list items. To make sublists, indent the sublist items more than the main list items.
Place a number (any number) before each item in your list. Double space list items.
Type the definition term followed by two dashes and then type your definition.
Put a single asterick (*) on each side of the text to be italicized.
Enclose text with two astericks (**).
Enclose text with an underscore ( _ )
Type out or copy/paste a web address in its usual form. It will be recognized and turned into a link.
Example: http://www.google.com
...appears as http://www.google.com.
Enclose the text for the link in quotation marks followed by a comma and the full web address
Example: "Google", http://www.google.com
...appears as Google
Enclose text in quotation marks followed by a comma, the code "mailto:" and the email address
Example: "Jordan Carswell", mailto:jordan.carswell@hccs.edu
...appears as Jordan Carswell
Cite your footnote using a bracketed number, [1]
At the end of the page, provide footnote using two periods, space, and bracketed number, .. [1]
Clicking the first bracketed number will jump to the bracketed number preceded by the two periods.
For short sections of code, enclose the text in single quotes (this doesn't work if the code contains single quotes). For longer code excerpts, type a preceding paragraph that ends in two colons. Then indent each following line at least one space. All characters will be printed exactly as typed, in monospaced font, until a line with no indenting is reached.
Source: jhh Wikis URL: http://jhh.med.virginia.edu/main/TextFormattingRules