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=== Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines ===
 
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<th>What it looks like</th>
 
<th>What you type</th>
 
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Start your sections with header lines:
 
  
<!-- This is the original
 
== New section ==
 
=== Subsection ===
 
==== Sub-subsection ====
 
-->
 
 
<!-- next set
 
<h2> New section </h2>
 
<h3> Subsection </h3>
 
<h4> Sub-subsection </h4>
 
-->
 
 
<!-- This code prevents confusion in the section editing feature-->
 
<b><font style="font-size:120%"> New section </font></b>
 
 
<b><font style="font-size:110%"> Subsection</font></b>
 
 
<b><font style="font-size:100%"> Sub-subsection</font></b>
 
 
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[[en:newline|Newline]]:
 
 
A single
 
newline
 
has no
 
effect on the
 
layout.
 
 
But an empty line
 
starts a new paragraph.
 
 
(<nowiki><p></nowiki> disables this paragraphing until <nowiki></p></nowiki> or the end  of the section)
 
 
(in Cologne Blue two newlines and a div tag give just one newline; in the order newline, div tag, newline, the result is two newlines)
 
 
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<tr valign="top"><td>You can break lines<br>
 
without starting a new paragraph.<p>
 
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* Lists are easy to do:
 
** start every line with a star
 
*** more stars means deeper levels
 
*A newline
 
*in a list 
 
marks the end of the list.
 
*Of course
 
*you can
 
*start again.
 
 
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# Numbered lists are also good
 
## very organized
 
## easy to follow
 
#A newline
 
#in a list 
 
marks the end of the list.
 
#New numbering starts
 
#with 1.
 
 
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* You can even do mixed lists
 
*# and nest them
 
*#* like this<br>or have newlines<br>inside lists
 
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* You can also
 
**break lines<br>inside lists<br>like this
 
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; Definition list : list of definitions
 
; item : the item's definition
 
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:A colon indents a line or paragraph.
 
A manual newline starts a new paragraph.
 
* This is primarily for displayed material, but is also used for discussion on [[Help:Talk page|Talk page]]s.
 
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WARNING If you make it wide,
 
you [[en:page widening|force the whole page to be wide]] and
 
hence less readable. Never start ordinary lines with spaces.<br>
 
<center>(see also below)</center>
 
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<tr valign="top"><td><center>Centered text.</center>
 
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<td>A [[en:horizontal dividing line|horizontal dividing line]]: above
 
----
 
 
and below.
 
 
Mainly useful for separating threads on Talk pages.
 
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Summarizing the effect of a single newline: no effect in general, but it ends a list item or indented part; thus changing some text into a list item, or indenting it, is more cumbersome if it contains newlines, they have to be removed; see also [[w:Wikipedia:Don't use line breaks]].
 

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