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Word Effects

A how-to: Make your words stand out!

Word Effects
- A how-to: Make your words stand out!

The Basics

As seen in various other Twiki pages: ATasteOfTWiki^?, TextFormattingRules^?, TwikiShorthand^?, and WikiSyntax^?

There are many things you can do to help your words stand out. The very basics consist of italics, bold, and bold italics. ArtWord will walk you through using these three things as well as adding color and other effects.

Italics

Italics can be simple to use. Simply put an underscore in front of and behind the text you wish to italicize.

Example: 'My grandma is the greatest.' is really typed as 'My grandma is the _greatest_.'

If you choose to italicize a whole sentence, you just put the underscores outside the words. For example: 'I love icecream!' is really typed _'I love icecream!'_

Note: There are no additional spaces when using italics! If you place a space before and after the underscore, your italicized text will have an extra space between it and the words surrounding it.

Bold

Bold works very much the same way as Italics. The main difference is you use an asterisk (*) instead of an underscore (_). You still need to put one before and one after the text you wish to show up bold.

Example: 'My grandma is the greatest.' is really typed as 'My grandma is the *greatest*.'

If you choose to bold an entire sentence, you just put the asterisks outside all the words. For example: 'I love icecream!' is really typed *'I love icecream!'*

Note: There are no additional spaces when using bold!

Bold & Italic

There are two ways to both bold and italicize text. As in life, there is an easy way, and a hard way. First, we shall take a look at the easy way. The easy way is much like adding italics to a word or phrase, though you use two underscores (no space!).

'My grandma is the greatest.' is really typed 'My grandma is the __greatest__.'

If you choose to italicize and bold a whole sentence, you just put the underscores outside the words. For example: 'I love icecream!' is really typed __'I love icecream!'__

Note: There are no additional spaces when using italics!

Now the hard way: You use both the asterisk and the underscore, but you have to use them in the correct order. By using an asterisk followed by an underscore preceding the text and an underscore followed by an asterisk after the text you are able to receive the bold italic results. However, if you confuse the order and use underscore, asterisk, text, asterisk, underscore you will simply have italic text surrounded by underscores as a result.

Examples:

This works. is really *_This works._*

*This doesn't work.* is really _*This doesn't work.*_

*_This also doesn't work.*_

_*Neither does this._*

Colors

There are many colors to choose from, that may very well be the most difficult decision to make when zesting up your wiki page. There are the basic red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

Now here is how to use them:

'My favorite color is gray.' is really typed 'My favorite color is %GRAY%gray. %ENDCOLOR%' This particular code is very specific. The name of the color (in this case, GRAY) and the 'ENDCOLOR' must be in CAPITOLS. And between the % symbol and COLOR or ENDCOLOR there should be NO SPACES!

Here is another example:

'Orange is a fun summer color.' Is really %ORANGE%Orange is a fun summer color. %ENDCOLOR% (With 'Orange' and 'Endcolor' all in caps: ORANGE, ENDCOLOR)

To make things really colorful (but very complicated) one can change the color of each letter. It will look like a long string of text for each word, as no additional spaces should be present. There will be a %COLOR% in front of each letter and an %Endcolor% after each. (%red%h%endcolor%%blue%e%endcolor%%orange%l%endcolor%%yellow%l%endcolor%%gray%o%endcolor%. --Once more, ALL CAPS. Will look like: hello

Tables

Tables are used by adding a vertical line (generally above the key on the keyboard) between words or phrases.

Effect	Example	Code
Italic	Marshmallow	_Marshmallow_
Bold	Marshmallow	Marshamallow
Bold&Italic	*Marshmallow*	__Marshmallow__ or _Marshmallow_
Color	Marshmallow	%red%Marshmallow%endcolor% (with caps)

This looks like:

|Effect|Example|Code|

|Italic|_Marshmallow_|_Marshmallow_|

| Bold |*Marshmallow*| *Marshamallow* |

|Bold&Italic|__Marshmallow__|__Marshmallow__ or *_Marshmallow_*|

|Color | Marshmallow | %red%Marshmallow%endcolor% (with caps) |

Or something a bit more simple:

Date	Time	Event
02/08	12:20 pm	Wash Car
02/09	9:01 am	Wake Up

Looks like:

|Date|Time|Event|

|02/08|12:20 pm|Wash Car|

|02/09|9:01 am|Wake Up|

Monospaced

What the heck is 'monospaced'? Monospaced is a type of font where each character is the same size irregardless of its shape. Regular fonts alot extra space to larger characters. Monospaced gives all characters the same amount of space and will adjust the way a character looks to make it fit.

This is what Monospacing looks like in this TWiki.

Looks like: =This is what Monospacing looks like in this TWiki.=

And this is what Monospacing Bold looks like.

Looks like: ==And this is what Monospacing Bold looks like.==

Lines & Line Breaks

Just type 4 or more dashes '-' and it will create a full horizontal line on the page.

Looks like:

----

becomes:

Just type %BR% to create a line break if you need more space between sections.

Wrap-up

We've covered Italics, Bold, a combination of the two, Colors, Tables, Lines and Just what the heck is monospaced anyway.

Known Available TWiki Colors	Name/Sample
RED	RED
ORANGE	ORANGE
YELLOW	YELLOW
GREEN	GREEN
BLUE	BLUE
PURPLE	PURPLE
BLACK	BLACK
WHITE	WHITE
GRAY	GRAY
AQUA	AQUA
BROWN	BROWN
MAROON	MAROON
SILVER	SILVER
PINK	PINK
NAVY	NAVY
TEAL	TEAL