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@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-## Help on formatting text
+# Help on formatting text
 
-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.
 
@@ -10,26 +11,29 @@ in single or double asterisks.
 
 To create a list, start each line with an asterisk:
 
-* \* this is my list
-* \* another item
+* "* this is my list"
+* "* another item"
 
 To make a numbered list, start each line with a number (any number will
 do) followed by a period:
 
-1. 1\. first line
-2. 2\. second line
-2. 2\. third line
+1. "1. first line"
+2. "2. second line"
+2. "2. third line"
 
 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:
 
-## h2
-### h3
-#### h4
+# # 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:
 
 ----
 
@@ -38,18 +42,23 @@ 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 to create a [[[[WikiLink]]]].
+square brackets, so you would use `\[[WikiLink]]` to link to [[WikiLink]].
 
-To link to any other web page, 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 any other web page, or to an 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]].
+You can also use [[PreProcessorDirective]]s to do additional cool stuff.
+
+[[if test="enabled(smiley)"  then="""
+Also, because this wiki has the smiley plugin enabled, you can
+insert [[smileys]] and some other useful symbols.
+"""]]