Linoleum has two kinds of markup: linetype and inline.

Linetype markup

Linetype markup adds a character at the start of each line to indicate what the text on the line is supposed to be when displayed on the web page:

! An exclamation point marks the line as a heading. One exclamation point produces an <h1> heading, two produce <h2>, and six or more produce <h6>.
* An asterisk marks the line as a bulleted-list item.
* Two such lines are considered two separate items (in the same list).
- ** Two asterisks mark the line as a subitem.
  - *** Each additional asterisk indents the item further.
# A hash mark marks the line as a numbered-list item.
- ## Two hash marks make the line a subitem.
  - ### Each additional hash mark indents the item still further.
% A percent sign marks the line as data for a table cell.
% Subsequent lines represent additional cells in the same row, from left to right.
- Two percent signs mark the line as data for the first table cell in a new row.
  - % Three or more percent signs mark the line as data for the first table cell in a new table-header row.
---- A series of four hyphens produces a horizontal line.
> A greater-than sign marks the line as part of a blockquote.
> Two or more such lines together are combined into one blockquote.
= An equal sign marks a tag. The first word after the equal sign is taken as the tag name; anything after the tag name on the same line is taken as a tag value.
$ A dollar sign marks the line as part of a code or "<pre>" section. This means that each line in the section must begin with a dollar sign.
; A semicolon marks the line as a comment. It doesn't show up on the displayed page at all.
@ An at-sign marks the line as part of an HTML section, in which special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" are left as entered, so that HTML tags, PHP code, and JavaScript can be entered into the Wiki text and executed when the web page is displayed. (The administrator should be able to decide which users do and do not get the privilege of using this feature.)
\ A line of text can begin with any character; to create ordinary paragraph texts, you just type. But if you want to begin a line of text with, say, an asterisk, and you don't want the asterisk to turn the line into a list item, then precede the asterisk with a backslash, which will force any line to be displayed as simple text.

Inline markup

(bold/italic, custom styles/commands)

Markup

Linetype markup

Inline markup