Grokdoc:Help
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Using the Button Bar
When you edit a page, the graphical button bar at the top of each page will show you code examples for various formatting techniques. For example, clicking the first button (the "B") will show you how to create bold text. You can click any of those buttons to see example text that you can then cut and paste into your page. So if you cannot remember the rest of this help page, you can always resort to the button bar.
Creating Links
To create a new page, simply enclose a piece of text within a pair of double square brackets. For example, if you type [[Grokdoc:test]], a new page will be created with the name "Grokdoc:test." If such a page already exists, a new page will not be created, but instead a link to the existing "Grokdoc:test" page will be created.
What if you want to create a page name that has an underscore? Put a space where you want the underscore to appear as shown here: [[Main Page]]. That will create a page called "Main_Page". You can use [[GrokSaurus:Mouse|mouse]] to link to GrokSaurus:Mouse but use only "mouse" as the link text.
To create a link to a section of a page, use a hash mark (#). For example, [[Hierarchical TOC#Topics for usability study]] will produce Hierarchical TOC#Topics for usability study.
To link to LQWiki:Hierarchical TOC, use [[:LQWiki:Hierarchical TOC]].
To create an external link, use one of these methods:
http://www.grokdoc.net will produce http://www.grokdoc.net
[http://www.grokdoc.net] will create a "footnote" link like this: [1]
[http://www.grokdoc.net GrokDoc] will show your custom text in the link, as here: GrokDoc
Sections and Subsections
You can create section and subsection headings by using:
==Section Header==
===Subsection header===
====Sub-Subsection header====
This is what each looks like:
Section header
Subsection header
Sub-Subsection header
Enhancing Your Text
Horizontal lines: Put 4 dashes on an empty line like this: ----
Line break: put <br> wherever you want a line break.
Bold text: Enclose the text with 3 apostrophes on either end, like this: '''bold'''
Italic text: Enclose the text with 2 apostrophes on either end, like this: ''italic''
Bullets: Put an asterisk to the left of the text. One asterisk puts bullets at level one, two asterisks puts bullets at level two, and three asterisks puts bullets at level three. For example:
- Level one
- Another Level one
- Level two
- Level three
- Level two
Numbered lists: Use the hash (#) character before each item in the list:
- First item
- Second item
- Third item
Page changed by another while editing
If a page changes while you are editing it, you'll get an error message when you try to preview that page. To merge your changes with the new current page, use your Browser's Back button to display and copy text from your edits, and Forward to display and paste into the current page. You can go back and forth until you are done, and then preview the page again.
See also
See also: Grokdoc:FAQ
