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--- wiki:syntax [2026/04/12 18:01] – Simon Grant
+++ wiki:syntax [2026/04/20 12:27] (current) – [Text to HTML Conversions] Simon Grant
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 `Actually, internal links to [that page](pagename) also work in Markdown format …`
-Even with namespaces: [me](p:Simon Grant)
+Even with namespaces: [me](user:asimong)
-`Even with namespaces: [me](p:Simon Grant)`
+`Even with namespaces: [me](user:asimong)`
 [[doku>pagename|Wiki pagenames]] are converted to lowercase automatically, special characters are not allowed.
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 `Resize to given width:            {{wiki:dokuwiki-128.png?200}}`
-Resize to given width and height((when the aspect ratio of the given width and height doesn't match that of the image, it will be cropped to the new ratio before resizing)): {{wiki:dokuwiki-128.png?300x40}}
+Resize to given width and height((when the aspect ratio of the given width and height doesn't match that of the image, it will be cropped to the new ratio as well as being resized)): {{wiki:dokuwiki-128.png?300x40}}
 `Resize to given width and height: {{wiki:dokuwiki-128.png?300x40}}` slices off top and bottom
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-Typography: [[DokuWiki]] can convert simple text characters to their typographically correct entities. Here is an example of recognized characters.
+Typography: [[DokuWiki]] can convert simple text character sequences to their typographically correct entities. Here is an example of recognized characters.
 -> <- <-> => <= <=>
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 "He thought 'It's a woman's world'..."
 </code>
+Different dashes are also made easy: `--` becomes an en-dash  "–"; and `---` becomes an em-dash --- slightly longer, see?
 The same can be done to produce any kind of HTML, it just needs to be added to the [[doku>entities|pattern file]].
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 Some times you want to mark some text to show it's a reply or comment.
-But this syntax does not work:
+The first part of this works, but the rest does not:
 ```