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TWiki Meta Characters

Ultimately, I would like to see this at twiki.org.

The main purpose of this topic is to document (in one place) the meta characters used in TWiki.  A secondary use is to discuss changes & extensions to the meta characters, i.e. the shortcut syntax

If this ever did go to twiki.org, these uses would have to be separated.

      TWiki Use
 Ch.  Name HTML Current Proposed
` backtick
backquote
grave
??? n/a none
~ tilde ??? none none
! bang
exclamation point
??? text ignore
(headings)
none
@ at ??? none none
# pound ??? none none
$ dollar ??? variables none
% percent ??? variables none
^ carat ??? none none
& and ??? none none
* star ??? bold,
Bullet lists
(w/ space)
none
( open
parenthesis
??? none none
) close
parenthesis
??? none none
_ underscore ??? italics Underline?
- dash
minus
hyphen
??? none Strike out
= equal (sign) ??? monospace none
; semi-colon ??? none none
: colon ??? none none
' (single) quote
apostrophe
??? none none
" double quote ??? none none
, comma ??? none none
< less than
open angle
     (bracket)
tag open same none
. dot
period
point
??? none none
> greater than
close angle
     (bracket)
tag close same none
/ (forward) slash ??? none italics
? question (mark) ??? none none
\ backslash
"whack"
??? none escape
¦ pipe
vertical bar
??? tables none

-- RickArchibald - 09 Jan 2004

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