Formating

Bold - Italic - Underlined - Superscript - Subscript - Highlighted text - Coloured Text - Horizontal Ruler - Strikethrough - Monospaced

To make text Bold...

Image of Apostrophe key on keyboard

The Apostrophe key, on your keyboard, is typed twice before the word(s) you wish to make bold and twice after; don't make the mistake of typing the quotation key once.

For example: See if you can see the code in the text below...

Image showing use of bold code in Tiddlywiki

This is the result in Tiddlywiki...

Image of resulting bold text

To make text Italic...

Image of Forward Slash key on keyboard

The Forward-slash key, on your keyboard, is typed twice before the word(s) you wish to make italic and twice after.

For example: See if you can see the code in the text below...

This is the resulting text...

Image of code for Italic Text, 2 / before and 2/ after

To make text underlined...

Image of Shift key, plus and hyphen keyHold down the Shift key, on your keyboard, and type 2 underscores before the text you want to underline and 2 after...

For example: See if you can see the code in the text below...

Image of code used for underscore

This is the resulting text...

Image of text once code has been applied

To make text superscript...

Image of Shipt key, plus and 6 key Hold down Shift Key, on your keyboard, and type 2 carets before the text you want as superscript and two after...

For example: See the use of the carets in the text below...

Image of code in use

This is the resulting text...

Image of resulting text

To make text subscript...

Image of Shift key, plus and Tilde keyHold down Shift Key, on your keyboard, and type 2 tildes before the text you want as subscript and 2 after...

For example:See the use of the tildes in the text below...

Image of Subscript code in use

This is the resulting text...

Image of the formula for Glucose

To make text highlighted text...

Image of Keys needed to highlight text in TiddlywikiHold down the Shift key, on your keyboard, and type two @ before text and two @ after...

For example: See the use of the @ in the text below...

Image of code being used to Highlight text

This is the resulting text...

Image of the Highlighted Text produced using Tiddlywiki code

To make text coloured text...

Image of Keys needed to highlight text in TiddlywikiHold down the Shift key, on your keyboard, and type two @plus color(red): before text and two @ after...

For example: See the use of the @@color(red):...@@ in the text below...

Image of coloured text code being used in Tiddlywiki

This is the resulting text...

Image of coloured text resulting from using code

Note: This example uses red in the brackets; experiment with other colours

To make a horizontal line...

Image of hyphen key used for inserting a horizontal lineOn a blank line, type the hyphen key four times...

For example: See the use of the code below...

Image of code being used in Tiddlywiki

This is the resulting horizontal line...

Image of resulting horizontal line

To add strikethrough to text...

Image of equals key used for inserting strikethroughType the =key twice before the text you wish to strikethrough and twice after...

For example: See the use of the code below...

Image of code being used to provide strikethrough on text

This is the resulting strikethrough text...

Image of resulting strikethrough text

To add monospaced text...

Image of keys used before monospaced textHold down the Shift key, on the keyboard, and type three Brackets before the text you want monospaced...

type the text and then...

Image of keys used after text you want monospaced...hold down the Shift Key again and type 3 of these brackets...

For example: See the use of the code below...

Image of monospaced code being used

This is the resulting monospaced text...

Image of resulting monospaced text compared with 'normal' text

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Produced and edited by John Dalziel (eLearning Adviser) JISC RSC-Northwest - Lancaster University