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Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
Allowed HTML tags: <a> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd>
Lines and paragraphs are automatically recognized. The line break, paragraph and close paragraph tags are inserted automatically. If paragraphs are not recognized simply add a couple blank lines.

Syntax highlighting of source code can be enabled with the following tags:

Options and tips:

The language for the generic syntax highlighting tags can be specified with one of the attribute(s): type, lang, language. The possible values are: "c" (for C), "cpp" (for C++), "drupal5" (for Drupal 5), "drupal6" (for Drupal 6), "java" (for Java), "javascript" (for Javascript), "php" (for PHP), "python" (for Python), "ruby" (for Ruby).
Line numbering can be enabled/disabled with the attribute "linenumbers". Possible values are: "off" for no line numbers, "normal" for normal line numbers and "fancy" for fancy line numbers (every n^th line number highlighted). The start line number can be specified with the attribute "start", which implicitly enables normal line numbering. For fancy line numbering the interval for the highlighted line numbers can be specified with the attribute "fancy", which implicitly enables fancy line numbering.
If the source code between the tags contains a newline (e.g. immediatly after the opening tag), the highlighted source code will be displayed as a code block. Otherwise it will be displayed inline.
Beside the tag style "<foo>" it is also possible to use "[foo]".

Defaults:

Default highlighting mode for generic syntax highlighting tags: the default language used for syntax highlighting is "php".
Default line numbering: normal line numbers.

Examples:

You type	You get
`<code>foo = "bar";</code>`	Inline code with the default syntax highlighting mode.
`<code> foo = "bar"; baz = "foz"; </code>`	Code block with the default syntax highlighting mode.
`<code lang="java" linenumbers="normal"> foo = "bar"; baz = "foz"; </code>`	Code block with syntax highlighting for Java source code and normal line numbers.
`<code language="java" start="23" fancy="7"> foo = "bar"; baz = "foz"; </code>`	Code block with syntax highlighting for Java source code, line numbers starting from 23 and highlighted line numbers every 7^th line.