Introduction

Paragraphs

• Words wrap and fill automatically. You do not need to bother with manually inserting line breaks..
• keep lines short to make diffs (page history) more easily readable.
• Separate paragraphs with a blank line.

Lists

• This is a bulleted list.
• In order to create a bulleted list, put * at the start of each line.
  • You can get deeper hierarchy by placing ** for second level, *** for third etc.

1. This is a numbered list.
2. In order to create a numbered list, put # at the start of each line.
   1. You can use ## and ### as in the previous example.
   • You can also mix # and *.

• New line stops the list, but you can use %%% (see above).
• ;Term:def makes a definition list:

Term to be defined

Your explanation appears here.

TAS

A tool-assisted speedrun.

Headings

• ‘! ’ at the start of a line makes a small heading.
• ‘!!’ at the start of a line makes a medium heading.
• ‘!!!’ at the start of a line makes a large heading.
• ‘!!!!’ at the start of a line makes a main heading. Because the system automatically creates a main heading for normal pages, this markup is only usable for system pages.
• The command %%TOC%% creates a table of contents consisting of the headings.
• Usage of headings for structuring the document is recommended.

Emphasis

• Use doubled single-quotes ('') for emphasis (italics).
• Use doubled underscore (__) for strong emphasis (bold).
• Use doubled parentheses (( and )) for smaller text. (Can be nested)
• Use doubled braces {{ and }} for teletype text.
• Use triple dashes (---) for overstrike effect (when you wish to emphasize that something has been changed/removed from the page).
• Use double square quotes «« and »» for inline quotations (Can be nested).
• Use right angle bracket (>) for indented quotes:

This is an example quote.

• Use double top half brackets ⸢⸢ and ⸣⸣ for ^superscript. Useful to write X4 = X22 in math.
• Use double bottom half brackets ⸤⸤ and ⸥⸥ for _subscript. Useful to write log2X in math.
• Emphasis can cross line boundaries, so be careful – a rogue “---” for example can cause the entire page appear in strike-over.

Preformatted text

This is preformatted text using a monospace font (space as first character).
Here is an action scene:
   +__-+-       “One image says more than a thousand words.”
 --   \__|                                    _____ _:
              _____             ____    - -- |     | |_
     - - --- /  |__\__    --  _/ |__\|_    - O  ~  |   \
   _  -   __ `-o----o-'__    `-o-----o-'  __ `-oo--^--o-'

References (Links)

• Internal links (to other wiki pages here)
  • Do NOT link to the fully qualified url i.e do NOT prefix with https://tasvideos.org
  • Link to wiki page names by enclosing them in brackets: [RecentChanges] or [recent changes].
  • It is possible to give your link a different name by using square brackets and ‘|’ like this: [FAQ|Questions and answers] produces Questions and answers.
  • To output brackets as-is, put them in doubles: [[ and ]]
• External links (automatically gets a icon)
  • URLs with http:, ftp: or mailto: are automatically linked: http://www.google.com/ .
  • URLs can be named in the same way as internal links: [http://www.google.com|Google it!] produces Google it!
  • You can suppress automatic hyperlink parsing by preceding the link with a ‘!’, e.g. !http://not.linked.to/.
• Images
  • URLs ending in .png, .gif, .jpg, and .svg are inlined if put in square brackets (embedded images).
    (But when you embed images, please make sure that you have the permission to do so from the server where the image is being loaded from!)
  • To suppress image embedding, use a space after the URL, it will act as a regular link.
  • For internal links (relative), prefix the image's URL with a =.
  • To left- or right-align an embedded picture, the link text can be “left” or “right” respectively. [https://files.tasvideos.org/guidelines/entertain.gif|right] produces the image above.
  • To include alt or title attributes in an image use alt=text or title=text.
  • To include width or height attributes in an image use w=width or h=height respectively. Ex: [https://files.tasvideos.org/common/Forum/21792/bizhawk_mame_tutorial/Karnov-cover.jpg|w=480|h=360]
  • You can combine multiple image options by using '|' like this: [=image.png|alt=Image of cows|title=Coolest image ever|left] or this: [http://images.google.com/image.png|alt=Image of cows|title=Coolest image ever|left]
  • You can create image links like this: [http://www.google.com|=googlelogo.png|alt=Google's Logo] or this: [http://www.google.com|http://www.google.com/googlelogo.png|alt=Google's Logo]

• Footnotes: create links to footnotes with [#1] or any other number (i.e. square brackets + hash + number), and precede the footnote itself with [1] (i.e. square brackets + number). Example: ^[1]

Tables

||header1||header2||header3||header4||
|field1a|field2a| |field4a|
|field1b|field2b with [|] vertical bar|field3b with%%%a few words|field4b|

Mark-Up Language (HTML)

• Do not try to use HTML. HTML markup does not work.
• & and < have no special meaning and will give a literal & or <, respectively; > has a special meaning only at the beginning of a line (for a note-style block), and otherwise gives a literal >.

Table of contents

• You can insert a table of contents to the page with the %%TOC%% macro. (See the top of this page for an example of its use.)
• The table of contents must come before any headers or else it will not work.

Tabs

%%TAB header_text1%%
entry1
%%TAB header_text2%%
entry2
...
%%TAB header_textn%%
entryn
%%TAB_END%%

%%TAB Table of Pokémon%%
Bulbasaur, Venusaur, Ivysaur, and hundreds of others.
%%TAB Minimize tab%%
%%TAB_END%%

Directives:

• %%TAB_END%% is important. If it is missing, odd things happen.
• Tabs can be nested.
• There must be no headings in the tabs.
• Ending a tab ends any nested quotes and divs.

Source code

function factorial(n)
  local x = 1
  for i = 2, n do
    x = x * i
  end
  return x
end

Quotations

Divs

Comments and if macros

• To write something in the source without having it show up in the page, surround the comment with [if:0]...[endif].
• Surrounding anything with [if:1]...[endif] does nothing to the text.
• The wiki reserves some variables which evaluate to 1 if true and 0 if false:
  • UserIsLoggedIn
  • CanEditPages (1 if user is an editor)
  • UserHasHomepage
  • CanViewSubmissions (as for now, always 1)
  • CanSubmitMovies (as for now, same as UserIsLoggedOn)
  • CanJudgeMovies
  • CanPublishMovies
  • CanRateMovies (as for now, same as UserIsLoggedOn)

• [expr:UserGetWikiName] returns the reader's wiki username (if logged on).
• [user:user_name] links to the user profile of the user (if there is one).
• [module:xxx] inserts a module which performs some function. See the list of modules for more information. Some modules are restricted.

Character set

• This server uses unicode with UTF-8 encoding. This means that you can use all characters supported by unicode, including the Japanese characters. But please note that not everyone can read them.