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Be careful not to put spaces at the beginning of lines that you don't want monospaced!
Be careful not to put spaces at the beginning of lines that you don't want monospaced!
== Text Formatting ==
To make text italic, surround it with double-apostrophes.  To make text bold, surround it with triple-apostrophes.  For example, <nowiki>''ITALICS''</nowiki> results in ''ITALICS'' and <nowiki>'''BOLD'''</nowiki> results in '''BOLD'''.

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Monospaced Plain Text

"Monospaced text" is text in which every character has the same width. For example, the edit textbox on the wiki uses monospaced text. This kind of text is ideal for drawing diagrams (see the Crossbow article for an example). To insert monospaced text on the wiki, simply put a space at the beginning of a line. Here's an example:

This is monospaced text!

Be careful not to put spaces at the beginning of lines that you don't want monospaced!

Text Formatting

To make text italic, surround it with double-apostrophes. To make text bold, surround it with triple-apostrophes. For example, ''ITALICS'' results in ITALICS and '''BOLD''' results in BOLD.