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We have our own special markup too, of course: this consists of a funny character followed by an argument in parens. To avoid quoting nightmares, on this page I have inserted an extra space between the character and the open-paren. Don't type it for real.

• Internal links: _ (Foo) renders as Foo. Cliki page titles aren't case-sensitive, and spaces and underscores are treated equivalently, but Cliki will remember the way the title was written when you first created the page, and format it that way forevermore. So, please make some effort to use capitals where appropriate. In keeping with the precedent set by Ward's Wiki?, links to pages that don't exist are displayed less obtrusively than links to pages that do.

• Topic markers: * (Foo) declares this page to be relevant to topic Foo. This means that (a) it will have Foo listed in the footer, (b) it will be listed on pages which include a topic search for Foo. Usually there will be a page called Foo that contains such a search

• CLHS? references: # H(FOO), where FOO is a standard CL symbol, will expand into a link to the appropriate Hyperspec page. Thanks to Eric Marsden for the code that does this. It presently goes to the Xanalys site, because the ALU? site was down when I tried it.

• Download links: > ( url ) will get you a download link plus the text "Download from" prepended to it. This creates more problems than it solves, and is going away in a forthcoming update

• Searches: / ("Lisp" :attribute :title :match :substring :case-sensitive nil) renders as

  :attribute is (or :title :topic :body), :match is (or :exact :substring), :case is (or nil t). The search code is still in development: title searches work, topics work only for exact matches (and ignore the setting of case-sensitive), body text doesn't at all.

  At some later date, searches will be optionally able to display also the first sentence or first paragraph of the page found. CLiki Style encourages the use of inverted pyramid style

As a convenience, text is assumed to start a new paragraph -- will be rendered preceded by a P tag -- if preceded by a blank line and not starting with a left-angle bracket. This seems to work passably well unless you want to start a paragraph with marked-up text. You'll just have to add the P tag yourself in that case

Don't expect to be able to type SGML entities (e.g. ampersand-l-t-semicolon), and have them work, as they tend to be translated into the actual characters they represent (e.g. less-than sign). This is listed on the CLiki bugs? page, but is unlikely to get fixed any time soon.

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