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Stairt yer sections wi heider lines:

Merk: Aesome equal signs wirks for formattin heidlines; houaniver, as a convention for this wiki, dinna uise thaim.

New section

Subsection

Sub-subsection

  == New section ==  === Subsection ===  ==== Sub-subsection ==== 

Newline:

An aesome newline haesna onie effect on the layoot.

But a tuim line stairts a new paragraph.

(

disables this paragraphin till

(in Cologne Blue twa newlines an a div tag juist gies the ae newline; in the order newline, div tag, newline, the affcome is twa newlines)

  An aesome newline haesna onie effect on the layoot.  But a tuim line stairts a new paragraph.

The wikitext code
is eneuch; the XHTML code
isna needit, acause the seistem produces this code.

Ye can brak lines
 athoot stairtin a new paragraph.

• Leets is eith makkit:
  • stairt ilka line wi a starn
    • mair starns means deeper levels
• A newline
• in a leet

merks the end o the leet.

• O coorse
• ye can
• stairt ower.

* Leets is eith makkit: ** stairt ilka line wi a starn *** mair starns means deeper levels *A newline *in a leet   merks the end o the leet. *O course *ye can *stairt ower.  

1. Nummered leets is guid an aa
   1. gey organized
   2. eith tae follae
2. A newline
3. in a leet

merks the end o the leet..

1. New nummerin stairts
2. frae 1.

# Nummered leets is guid an aa ## gey organized ## eith tae follae #A newline #in a leet   merks the end o the leet.. #New nummerin stairts #frae 1. 

• Ye can e'en dae mixt leets
  1. an nest thaim
     • like this
       or hae newlines
       inby leets

* Ye can e'en dae mixt leets *# an nest thaim *#* like this
or hae newlines
inby leets

• Ye can brak
  • lines forby,
    inby leets
    like this

* Ye can brak **lines forby, 
inby leets
like this

Defineition leet
leet o defineitions
eitem
defineition o the eitem

; Defineition leet : leet o defineitions ; eitem : defineition o the eitem

A colon indents a line or paragraph.

A manual newline stairts a new paragraph.

• This is foremaist for encyclopaedie maiterial, but is uised for collogue on Talk pages forby.

:A colon indents a line or paragraph. A manual newline stairts a new paragraph. 

GIN a line o plain text stairts wi a space THAN   it'll be formattit juist     like it's typed;   in a fixt-weinth font;   lines winna wap; ENDGIN // :-) Scots programmin! this is uissfu for:   * batterin afore-formattit text;   * algorithm descreeptions;   * programmme soorce code   * ASCII airt;   * chemical structurs;

WAIRNIN Gin ye mak it braid, ye mak the hail page braid an sae less readable. Ne'er stairt ordinar lines wi spaces.

GIN a line o plain text stairts wi a space THAN   it'll be formattit juist     like it's typed;   in a fixt-weinth font;   lines winna wap; ENDGIN // :-) Scots programmin! this is uissfu for:   * batterin afore-formattit text;   * algorithm descreeptions;   * programme soorce code   * ASCII airt;   * chemical structurs;

Midlined text.

an ablo.

A [[horizontal shedline]]: abuin ---- an ablo.

• First letter o the tairget is made intae a muckle letter.
• Spaces is representit inby bi unnerscores (typin an unnerscore dis the same thing as typin a space, but this isna recommendit).

Sae the airtin abuin taks ye til AIRTIN TAE MATHEMATICS TAE BE PITTEN HERE, an that's the page wi the name "Mathematics".

Dauvie's readin aboot [[mathematics]].

Airtin tae a section on a page, for ensaumple, AIRTIN TAE BE PITTEN HERE; whan pyntin til a section disna wirk, the airtin wirks as an airtin tae the heid o the page; this applees for:

• airtins tae sections that disna exist
• airtins in reguidals
• interwiki airtins

AIRTIN TAE BE PITTEN HERE

(This is cried a piped airtin).

The tairget o an airtin an its label differs: [[Test-wp/sco/Scots leid|wir ain leid]].

Endins is eikit intae the airtin: AIRTINS WI GRAMMATICAL ENDINS TAE BE PITTEN HERE

Automaticallie hide maiter in brackets: AIRTINS WI BRACKETS TAE BE PITTEN HERE

Automaticallie hide namespace: Mercat Cross.

The server fills in the pairt efter the | whan ye hain the page. The neist time ye open the edit kistie ye'll see the expandit piped airtin. The scance ower shaws the abbreviate form richt, but disna expand it in the edit kistie. Sneck on Hain an syne Edit ower, an ye'll see the expandit version. The same applees for the follaein featur.

Automaticallie hide maiter in brackets: [[kingdom (biology)|]]. 

Automaticallie hide namespace: [[Wikipedia:Village pump|]].

ye shoud sign it. Ye can dae this bi eikin three tildes (shooglie line, ~) for yer uiser name:

Mendor

or fower for uiser name an the date an time:

Mendor 19:44, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Whan ye're eikin a comment tae a Talk page, ye shoud sign it. Ye can dae this bi eikin three tildes (shooglie line, ~) for yer uiser name: : ~~~ or fower for uiser name an the date an time: : ~~~~

• Ye can mak it bi sneckin on the airtin.
• For tae mak a new page:
  1. Mak an airtin til it on anither page.
  2. Hain that page.
  3. Sneck on the airtin that ye juist made. The new page will open for editin.
• Hae a leuk at the The wey tae stairt a page guide, the Names guide an the Spellin an grammar guide.

[[The wather in Glesca]] is a page that disna yit exist.

Reguide ae airticle teitle til anither bi pittin text like this in its first line.

#REDIRECT [[Scotland]]

An airtin til the page on the same subject in anither leid or, mair generallie, til a page on anither wiki: fr:Wikipédia:Aide. For mair help hae a leuk at m:Help:Interwiki linking (in Inglis)

[[fr:Wikipédia:Aide]], [[:fr:Wikipédia:Aide]]

Special:Whatlinkshere/Wiki:Whit wey til edit a page an Special:Recentchangeslinked/Wiki:Whit wey til edit a page

[[Special:Whatlinkshere/ Wikipedia:Hou tae edit a page]] an [[Special:Recentchangeslinked/ Wikipedia:Hou tae edit a page]]

Airtins til ither wabsteids: [http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia], [http://www.nupedia.com]

• In the URL aa seimbols maun be amang: A-Z a-z 0-9 ._\/~%-+&#?!=()@ \x80-\xFF. Gin a URL conteins a different chairacter it shoud be convertit; for ensaumple, ^ maun be written %5E (for tae be leukit up in ASCII). A space can be convertit intil an unnerscore an aa.

Or juist pit the URL: http://www.nupedia.com.

Tae pynt til beuks, ye can uise ISBN airtins. ISBN 0123456789X Hae a leuk at Help:ISBN links (in Inglis)

ISBN 0123456789X

Pynt til Request for Comments: RFC 123 (URL specified in mediawiki:Rfcurl) (in Inglis)

RFC 123

For tae mak airtins tae uplaids that isna picturs, sic as soonds, uise a "media" airtin.
Sound

  [[media:Sg_mrob.ogg|Sound]] 

[[Julie 20]], [[1969]] , [[20 Julie]] [[1969]] an [[1969]]-[[07-20]] 

 

• For mony projects, only eemages that's been uplaidit tae the same project or the Commons can be uised. For tae uplaid eemages, uise the uplaid page. Ye can find the uplaidit eemage on the eemage list

A pictur: [[Image:Wikipedia-logo-v2-sco.svg]]

or, wi alternate text (fordert strang)

[[Image:Wikipedia-logo-v2-sco.svg|Wikipedia  - The Free Encyclopedia]]  

s renders alternate text whan no shawin an eemage -- for example, whan the eemage isna laidit, or in a text-only brouser, or whan spoken lood oot. See for a a haund walin alternate text. See for mair chyces.

Sneckin on an uplaidit eemage shaws a descreeption page, that ye can airt straucht tae an aw: Image:Wikipedia-logo-v2-sco.svg

[[:Image:Wikipedia-logo-v2-sco.svg]] 

For tae include links tae eemages shawn as links insteid o drawn on the page, uise a "media" link.
Image of a Tornado

  [[media:Tornado aircraft.jpg|Pictur o a Tornado]] 

Emphaseeze, strang, gey an strang.

• Thir's dooble an triple apostrophes, no dooble quotes.

''Emphaseeze'', '''strang''', '''''gey an strang'''''.

Ye can write italic an bauld an aw, gin the socht effect is a speceefic font style raither nor emphasis, as in mathematical formulaes:

F = ma

• Houaniver, the differ atween thir twa weys isna awfu important for graphical brousers, an mony fowk slings a deifie tae it.

Ye can write italic an bauld an aw if the socht effect is a  speceefic font style raither nor emphasis, as  in mathematical formulaes: :F = ma

A typewriter font for  technical terms.

Ye can uise wee text  for caiptions.

an unnerline new maiter.

Ye can strick throu dicht maiter an unnerline new maiter.

Umlauts an accents: (See MediaWiki User's Guide: Creatin speicial chairacters)
è é ê ë ì í

À Á Â Ã Ä Å
Æ Ç È É Ê Ë
Ì Í Î Ï Ñ Ò
Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù
Ú Û Ü ß à á
â ã ä å æ ç
è é ê ë ì í
î ï ñ ò ó ô
œ õ ö ø ù ú
û ü ÿ

  è é ê ë ì í  À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù Ú Û Ü ß à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ñ ò ó ô œ õ ö ø ù ú û ü ÿ

Punctuation:
¿ ¡ « » § ¶
† ‡ • - – —

¿ ¡ « » § ¶ † ‡ • - – —

Commercial seembols:
™ © ® ¢ € ¥

™ © ® ¢ € ¥ £ ¤ 

Superscript: x² or x²

• The latter wwy o superscript canna be uised in the maist general context, but is liefer when possible (as wi units o meisurement) acause maist brousers haes an easier time formattin lines wi't.

ε₀ = 8.85 × 10⁻¹² C² / J m.

1 hectare = 1 E4 m²

Subscript: x2 Superscript: x2 or x²  or in projects wi the templates sub an sup:  Subscript: x{{sub|2}} Superscript: x{{sup|2}}  ε0 = 8.85 × 10−12 C² / J m.  1 [[hectare]] = [[1 E4 m²]] 

α β γ δ ε ζ
η θ ι κ λ μ ν
ξ ο π ρ σ ς
τ υ φ χ ψ ω
Γ Δ Θ Λ Ξ Π
Σ Φ Ψ Ω

α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π ρ  σ ς τ υ φ χ ψ ω Γ Δ Θ Λ Ξ Π Σ Φ Ψ Ω 

Maths chairacters:
∫ ∑ ∏ √ − ± ∞
≈ ∝ ≡ ≠ ≤ ≥
× · ÷ ∂ ′ ″
∇ ‰ ° ∴ ℵ ø
∈ ∉ ∩ ∪ ⊂ ⊃ ⊆ ⊇
¬ ∧ ∨ ∃ ∀ ⇒ ⇔
→ ↔ ↑

∫ ∑ ∏ √ − ± ∞ ≈ ∝ ≡ ≠ ≤ ≥  × · ÷ ∂ ′ ″ ∇ ‰ ° ∴ ℵ ø ∈ ∉ ∩ ∪ ⊂ ⊃ ⊆ ⊇ ¬ ∧ ∨ ∃ ∀ ⇒ ⇔ → ↔ ↑ 

• For tae haud things apairt, uise non-brakkin spaces - .
• hinders line braks in the mids o text an aw, this is uissfu in formulaes.

x2  ≥  0 true. 

Complicate formulae:
  ${\displaystyle \sum _{n=0}^{\infty }{\frac {x^{n}}{n!}}}$ 

• See TeX merkup

$\backslash sum\_\{n=0\}^\backslash infty\; \backslash frac\{x^n\}\{n!\}$ 

For tae compear the follaein examples:

airae →

italics link

airae      →  ''italics'' [[link]]

Uise for tae dounhaud interpretation o wiki merkup, but interpret chairacter references an tirr newlines an multiple spaces:

airae → ''italics'' [[link]]

airrae      →  ''italics'' [[link]]

Uise

 for tae dounhaud interpretation o wiki merkup an keep newlines an multiple spaces, an get typewriter font, but interpret chairacter references: 
 
airae      →  ''italics'' [[link]] 
 

airae      →  ''italics'' [[link]] 

Uise leadin space on ilka line for tae keep newlines an multiple spaces, an get typewriter font:

airae      → 

italics link 

 airae     →   ''italics''  [[link]]

Uise typewriter font:

airae →

italics link

airae      →  ''italics'' [[link]]

Shaw chairacter references:

→

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no shawn in page

• Uised for tae lea' jottins in a page for futur editors.