Question

I’m using a default install of MediaWiki and am trying to emphasize a certain line of code to students in a lab text I am writing.

Specifically, I am trying to bold the template line in:

template <typename T>
class Node {

This doesn’t work:

<code>
<b>template <typename T></b><br>
class Node {
</code>

Is there a way to do this in default MediaWiki?

Answer 1

The precise thing you’ve written seems to work on mediawiki.org, I just tried it in the sandbox:

http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Sandbox&oldid=429106

It’s a very subtle bolding effect. But it’s definitely different than when you don’t have the <b> tags. You might need to throw in some CSS for bolded things to make it more obvious:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:CSS

A note on a question you didn’t ask (but I answered initially anyway): if you’re not inside a code block, the nonsensical markup language of MediaWiki uses '''three apostrophes''' to bound bold text and ''two for italics'':

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting

I’d imagine if your installation is a default, all the things in that document will work. Wikipedia has some extensions installed so you can’t necessarily get the things there that you see when you click “edit” on a page to work. That would be fun stuff like the chess boards, for instance:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmbedChessboard

Another unsolicited note I’ll throw in is that I like to use bold to distinguish declarations and references. So I write things like:

    template <typename T>
    class Node {

I also like my code to use proportional fonts and tabs. 🙂