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-## Help on formatting text
+[[meta title="Help on formatting wiki pages"]]
 
-Text on this wiki is written in a form very close to how you might write
-text for an email message.
+Text on this wiki is, by default, written in a form very close to how you
+might write text for an email message. This style of text formatting is
+called [[MarkDown]], and it works like this:
 
 Leave blank lines between paragraphs.
 
@@ -24,12 +25,15 @@ To create a header, start a line with one or more `#` characters followed
 by a space and the header text. The number of `#` characters controls the
 size of the header:
 
+# # h1
 ## ## h2
 ### ### h3
 #### #### h4
+##### ##### h5
+###### ###### h6
 
-To create a horizontal rule, just write three or more dashes on their own
-line:
+To create a horizontal rule, just write three or more dashes or stars on
+their own line:
 
 ----
 
@@ -38,17 +42,53 @@ To quote someone, prefix the quote with ">":
 > To be or not to be,
 > that is the question.
 
-To write a code block, indent each line with a tab:
+To write a code block, indent each line with a tab or 4 spaces:
 
        10 PRINT "Hello, world!"
        20 GOTO 10
 
-To link to another page on the wiki, place the page's name inside double
-square brackets, so you would use `\[[WikiLink]]` to link to [[WikiLink]].
-
-To link to any other web page, or to an email address, you can just put the url in angle brackets: <<http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net>>, or you can use the form
-\[link text\]\(url\)
+To link to an url or email address, you can just put the
+url in angle brackets: <<http://ikiwiki.info>>, or you can use the
+form \[link text\]\(url\)
 
 ----
 
-This style of text formatting is called [[MarkDown]].
+In addition to basic html formatting using [[MarkDown]], this wiki lets
+you use the following additional features:
+
+* To link to another page on the wiki, place the page's name inside double
+  square brackets. So you would use `\[[WikiLink]]` to link to [[WikiLink]].
+
+[[if test="enabled(smiley) and smileys" then="""
+* Insert [[smileys]] and some other useful symbols. :-)
+"""]]
+
+[[if test="enabled(shortcut) and shortcuts" then="""
+* Use [[shortcuts]] to link to common resources.
+
+       \[[wikipedia War\_of\_1812]]
+"""]]
+
+[[if test="enabled(toc)" then="""
+* Add a table of contents to a page:
+
+       \[[toc ]]
+"""]]
+
+
+[[if test="enabled(meta)" then="""
+* Change the title of a page:
+
+       \[[meta title="full page title"]]
+"""]]
+
+[[if test="enabled(inline) and blog" then="""
+* Create a [[blog]] by inlining a set of pages:
+
+       \[[inline pages="blog/*"]]
+"""]]
+
+[[if test="enabled(template) and templates" then="""
+* Create and fill out [[templates]] for repeated chunks of
+  parameterized wiki text.
+"""]]