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HelpForUsers > HelpOnEditing > HelpOnFormatting

This page describes using the MoinMoin wiki syntax (which is the default syntax for a MoinMoin based wiki, but not the only one).
For other parsers/syntaxes take a look at HelpOnParsers.

== General ==

 * Use one or more blank lines to separate paragraphs.
 * Use `<<BR>>` [[HelpOnMacros|macro]] to insert linebreaks into paragraphs.

== Typeface ==

## Note that in some places we've used backticks here to "escape" the Wiki markup.

||<rowbgcolor="#ffffcc">''' Name/Sample''' || ''' Markup '''   || ''' Notes '''          ||
||  ''italic''     || `''italic''`       || Double single quotes.  ||
||  '''bold'''     || `'''bold'''`       || Triple single quotes.  ||
||  `monospace`    || {{{`monospace`}}}  || Single backticks.  Wiki markup is ignored.   ||
||  {{{code}}}     || `{{{code}}}`       || [[#codeexample|Example.]]  Wiki markup is ignored. ||
||  __underline__  || `__underline__`    ||                         ||
||  ^super^script  || `^super^script`    ||                         ||
||  ,,sub,,script  || `,,sub,,script`    ||                         ||
||  ~-smaller-~    || `~-smaller-~`      ||                         ||
||  ~+larger+~     || `~+larger+~`       ||                         ||
|| --(stroke)--    || `--(stroke)--`     ||                         ||

== Colorize text  ==

Colorizing is enabled in tables without additional macros (see HelpOnTables). 

##Or install the macro [[http://moinmo.in/MacroMarket/Color2|Color2]].

== Colorize code (Syntax Highlighting) ==

There are several ways to highlight code:
 1. Start a special code block containing the parser's name: `{{{#!parsername`
 1. Embed a file attachment bearing a supported extension (such as `".py"`) with `{{attachment:test.py}}`
 1. Begin a page with the [[HelpOnProcessingInstructions|format processing instruction]]: `#format parsername`

[[#SyntaxHighlighting|Example.]]

!MoinMoin comes with a special parser called [[HelpOnParsers#The_highlight_parser|highlight]] that is based on [[http://pygments.org/|Pygments]] internally.

You can use it to highlight many sorts of programming source code, configuration files and other sorts of text files used on computers.

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= Examples =

== Mixing ''italic'' and '''bold''' ==
<<Anchor(italic_bold_example)>>

## Note that in some places we've used backticks here to "escape" the Wiki markup.

||<rowbgcolor="#ffffcc"> '''Markup''' || '''Result'''                    ||
|| `'''''Mix''' at the beginning''`   ||  '''''Mix''' at the beginning''  ||
|| `'''''Mix'' at the beginning'''`   ||  '''''Mix'' at the beginning'''  ||
|| `'''Mix at the ''end'''''`         ||  '''Mix at the ''end'''''        ||
|| `''Mix at the '''end'''''`         ||  ''Mix at the '''end'''''        ||



== Superscript & Subscript ==

{{{
You might recall ''a''^2^ `+` ''b''^2^ `=` ''c''^2^ from your math lessons, unless your head is filled with H,,2,,O.
}}}

Result:

You might recall ''a''^2^ `+` ''b''^2^ `=` ''c''^2^ from your math lessons, unless your head is filled with H,,2,,O.


<<Anchor(codeexample)>>
== Code ==

Markup:
{{{{
{{{
10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
20 GOTO 10
}}}
}}}}

Result:
{{{
10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
20 GOTO 10
}}}

=== Nesting curly braces ===

As pointed out on HelpOnParsers, you can nest multiple levels of curly braces:

Markup:
{{{{{
{{{{ 
This is a preformatted text block.
{{{ with curly braces inside }}}
}}}}
}}}}}

Result:
{{{{
This is a preformatted text block.
{{{ with curly braces inside }}}
}}}}

<<Anchor(SyntaxHighlighting)>>
=== Colorized Code ===

Markup:
{{{{
{{{#!highlight python
from colors import palette
palette.colorize('python')
}}}
}}}}

Result:
{{{#!highlight python
from colors import palette
palette.colorize('python')
}}}