MarkupCharacters
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The following is a listing of special characters used in PmWiki markup, with references to documentation and examples of usage in context. The list is organized by the location of characters on a qwerty keyboard:
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tilde, squiggle, wave |
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grave, backtick, backquote |
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exclamation mark, bang, not, pling, |
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at sign, each |
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crosshatch, pound, number, hash |
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dollar sign |
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percent sign |
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circumflex, caret |
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ampersand, and sign |
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asterisk, star |
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parenthesis (open or left) |
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parenthesis (close or right) |
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underscore, underline |
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plus |
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hyphen, dash, minus, negative |
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equal |
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brace, curly bracket, squiggly bracket (open or left) |
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brace, curly bracket, squiggly bracket (close or right) |
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pipe, vertical bar, vertical line |
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bracket, square (open or left) |
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bracket, square (close or right) |
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backslash, bash |
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colon |
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double quote, quotation mark |
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semi-colon |
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apostrophe, single quote, tick |
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left arrow, open angle bracket, less than |
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right arrow, inverted arrow, closed angle bracket, greater than |
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question mark |
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comma |
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dot, period |
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slash, forwardslash, stroke, virgule |
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space, whitespace |
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Documentation pages referenced in this page
- AvailableActions All PmWiki page actions (?action=) and other query parameters
- Basic PmWiki editing rules PmWiki's basic edit syntax
- Categories Categories are a way to organize and find related pages
- CharacterMarkup inline markup character combinations summary
- CommentMarkup various forms of comments and how to achieve them for wiki pages
- ConditionalMarkup The if directive allows portions of a page to be included or excluded from rendering
- Documentation Index PmWiki documentation index
- EditVariablesInTextArea Collection of some edit tricks
- GroupHeaders and GroupFooters Group Header and Group Footer page usage
- Images Placing images in pages
- IncludeOtherPages Include contents from other PmWiki pages
- InterMap Interwiki links definition and use
- Links Multiple mechanisms for creating links
- MarkupExpressions String and formatting operations
- Markup Master Index Tabulation of all PmWiki markup
- PageDirectives Directives to specify page titles, descriptions, keywords, and display
- PageLists Searching and listing pages by multiple criteria with templated output
- Page specific variables variables that are associated with pages
- SkinTemplates Skin templates (.tmpl files)
- SpecialCharactersList Entities defined in https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-lat1.ent from the
rss.php
script - Table directives Directives for table processing
- Tables Simple tables with double pipe markup, one row per line
- TextFormattingRules A list of some of the markup sequences available
- Uploads Allow authors to upload files, also known as page attachments
- Variables Variables available for local customisation
- WikiGroup Organising pages into related groups
- WikiStyleColors Standard and additional wiki colour styles
- WikiStyles Modifying the style of page contents
- WikiTrails Trails from lists items from a single page
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