Help:Edit mode

Wikis like Ifigenia have a non-WYSIWYG edit page interface. Inexperienced users may need few days of experimenting until they get used to the environment, but it is real fun to explore it. The best place for any kind of experiments is the Sandbox or a subpage created in the personal userspace.

Edit textbox

The edit text box is 80 characters wide and 25 lines long. This setting can be changed through the personal settings.

With few exceptions, every command, like template call, image call, horizontal rule, etc appears in read mode in the place where it was put in the source code in edit mode.

• One exception is the command for category, which always is rendered in the bottom of the page.
• Another exception may be some vertically rendering templates that are "floating" to the right or the the left of the page.

Edit buttons

Button	Function	Result in edit mode	Result in read mode
	Bold text	'''Bold text'''	Bold text
	Italic text	''Italic text''	Italic text
	Internal wiki-link	[[Link title]]	Link title
	External web-link	[http://www.example.com link title]	link title
	Headline text	== Headline text ==	Headline text
	Link to uploaded file	[[Media:Example.pdf]]	Media:Example.pdf
	Tag as Tex code	<math>Insert formula here</math>	[math]\displaystyle{ Insert formula here }[/math]
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Save page, Show preview, Show changes

Once ready with your edit, you can directly save it by clicking on the Save page button. However, you have two more options.

Click on the Show preview button to see how will your edit render in read mode. Thus you can can discover if there are some rendering inconsistencies (forgotten bracket, pipe or column, resulting in broken table, template or link, etc.) or do again your spell-checking. You can preview your edit as many times as needed before you finally save it (Don't forget to save! :-))

The third button Show changes allows to see the difference between the last version of the page and your current edit. The source codes of both versions can be compared in the way page versions are. Sometimes this option proves to be very useful. You can inspect the changes you make to the page, as many times as needed before you finally save them (Don't forget to save! :-))

By clicking the Cancel link, you return back to read mode.

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