2006-Jan-27
by Bluetales.com team

First, however, you should be aware that you have a choice of either automatic formatting, or your own HTML formatting; if the software detects HTML within a text box (indicated by a left angle bracket "<" character), then no automatic formatting is performed. In addition, automatic formatting is only provided in these areas:

• the body of documents such as articles and images
• the description fields of users and folders
• the bodies of comments

Here are some of the basic features of Siteframe's automatic formatting:

• Begin new paragraphs with two newline characters. Other line breaks are ignored (this is a change from in the past, when all newlines were converted to hard line breaks).
• Create a bulleted list by starting each list item on a new line, with an asterix "*" as the first character of the line.
• Emphasized text (usually italics) is created by surrounding the text with a pair of single quotation marks like this ' 'emphasized' ' produces emphasized text.
• Bold text is created by surrounding the text with a pair of underscore (underline) characters. _ _this is bold_ _ produces this is bold.
• Neither emphasized not bold text can extend across line boundaries.
• You can create a hyperlink in several ways. (1) Just type in the URL: http://www.bluetales.com will produce http://www.bluetales.com. (2) Surround the link with square brackets: [http://www.bluetales.com] produces http://www.bluetales.com. (3) You can provide your own link text by using [text|URL]. For example [The Blue Tales Pages|http://www.bluetales.com] produces The Blue Tales Pages.
• If you start a line with one or more spaces, then the text is converted to a monospaced font and no additional formatting is performed:

This text is preformatted and will not be modified

• You can create a horizontal rule with four dashes "----" at the beginning of a line, like this:

• You can create a hard line break with three percent signs "% % %". For example, there is a line break between this
  and that.

Generally, these rules should be pretty easy to follow, once you get used to them.

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