[Mediawiki-l] Using brackets in text?

Andreas Rindler mediawiki at jenandi.com
Fri Sep 7 06:12:23 UTC 2007


use <nowiki>text</nowiki> tags around the text you don't want to have
parsed by MediaWiki as wiki text.

On 07/09/07, Sean O'Connor <sean at transabled.org> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I can't seem to find the answer to this.  It's likely somewhere rather
> obvious, but Google and my searches in the manual don't seem to get me
> the answer.
>
> I need to use brackers [] in text when i truncate quotations, but that
> is obviously reserved for links...  I tried to use the ISO character
> reference, &#91; and &#93;, and it works, but it's somewhat clumsy,
> and while I might be able to remember it, I can't expect all Wiki
> users to remember it.
>
> How can I do this?  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Sean
>
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