In addition to the other ways to add content to a page, you can simply edit the wiki page itself. When editing wiki pages, there are a few special features you should be aware of, that will help you add content to the page.

Copying and Pasting

One of the easiest ways to add content to your Tiki pages is simply by copying from the source material (such as a PDF or DOC file) and pasting into a Tiki wiki page. Your results will vary, depending on the Tiki editor that you are using.

Using the WYSIWYG Editor

When pasting text into the wiki editor, Tiki will attempt to preserve the formatting, if possible. Additionally, any images that appeared in the original source will be included (via reference).

Copying text into the WYSIWYG editor will preserve most formatting.

Using the Wiki Editor

When pasting text into the wiki editor, Tiki will usually strip out any formatting and special characters. For best results, use the Paste... as Plain Text or Paste... Special options, if supported by your system's clipboard application.

Copying text into the wiki editor will strip all formatting.

This will preserve line and paragraph breaks, but you will need to re-apply the necessary text formatting and import any images.

Inserting Special Characters

Many times, you may want to add a character or symbol that does not exist on your keyboard, such as: Àor ½. Tiki provides a few methods to add these special characters:

Using Entity Values

The ISO 8859-1 specification is a commonly used character encoding scheme for characters and symbols from the Latin alphabet. You can include any character in a wiki page by using its entity value.

For example, the entity value for the copyright symbol ( © ) is 169. To include this symbol in a Tiki wiki page, use: ~169~.

Using the Special Characters button

To insert a special character while editing a page:

1. Click the Special Character button. The Select Special Character window appears.
   

    Note

   This button is available in both the WYSIWYG and Wiki editors.
   
   
   

   Selecting special characters (WYSIWYG).
2. Click the character to insert. Tiki inserts the character.

Using the Code Highlighter

In Tiki 7, by default, Tiki enables the code highlighter for wiki syntax. You can disable (or change) this by use the Change Highlighter button when editing a wiki page.

Click Change Highlighter then disable whe tiki syntax (or enable other syntax highlighting).

Changing the highlighter

If the Change Highlighter button is not visible, click Toggle Highlighter.

When using the code highlighter, Tiki will highlight the wiki syntax and display the resulting code in the edit window:

The code highlighter displays wiki syntax and WYSIWYG representation.