Paragraphs

Paragraphs are the easiest element to create in a Wiki document. Any consecutive lines of text that aren’t recognized as being headings, lists, etc., are treated as a single paragraph.

This is a simple paragraph.

Blank lines split the text into multiple paragraphs.

This is the first paragraph.

This is the second paragraph.

Unlike most wiki engines, line breaks within a single paragraph are not ignored, but are displayed as separate lines in the same paragraph. (It is thus useful to turn on “word wrapping” when editing a Wiki document with a text editor.)

Also, leading spaces can be used for simple indentation; they do not cause any special formatting, nor are they ignored.

This is the first paragraph.
It has a line break.
   The third line is indented.

This is the second paragraph.

A new paragraph can be explicitly started on any line with a leading backslash (\) followed by a space. This can be used to avoid the blank line between paragraphs, or to add special attributes to the paragraph.

This is the first paragraph.
\ This is the second paragraph.