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== How to (easily) create tables ? == | == How to (easily) create tables ? == |
Revision as of 12:59, 7 September 2018
Contents
How to create a new page ?
On the browser address bar type :
cepm.cs.odu.edu/<name of page>
or
cepm.cs.odu.edu/<namespace> : <name of page>
How does formatting work ?
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting
How to insert images ?
[[File:filename.extension|options|caption]]
see also:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images
How to insert formulas ?
Write it in latex and convert it to image and upload it as usual.
One way is to use an online service like http://quicklatex.com/
How to (easily) create tables ?
http://www.tablesgenerator.com/mediawiki_tables
How to convert mediawiki tables to Latex tables
save the table in a text file and then use pandoc
pandoc <input_file.txt> -f mediawiki -t latex --standalone -o <output_file.tex>
How to insert code snippets with syntax highlight ?
Warp them in <syntaxhighlight> </syntaxhighlight>
tags
example:
<syntaxhighlight lang="python" line='line'>
def quickSort(arr):
less = []
pivotList = []
more = []
if len(arr) <= 1:
return arr
else:
pass
</syntaxhighlight>
def quickSort(arr):
less = []
pivotList = []
more = []
if len(arr) <= 1:
return arr
else:
pass
For more see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight
How to insert citations ?
Wrap reference inside <ref> </ref>
example:
The Sun is pretty big.<ref>E. Miller, ''The Sun'', (New York: Academic Press, 2005), 23-5.</ref>
The Moon, however, is not so big.<ref>''R. Smith, "Size of the Moon", ''Scientific American'', 46 (April 1978): 44-6.</ref>
<references />
The Sun is pretty big.[1] The Moon, however, is not so big.[2]
References
For more see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite#Usage