[Mediawiki-l] Re: Using "|" in tables

Mon Oct 24 14:30:57 UTC 2005

"Randall Hopper" <viznut at charter.net> wrote in 
message news:20051023160245.GA11980 at charter.net...
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table
>
> I didn't see this issue addressed in the help pages.  Is there a way to
> escape a "|"?

I'm sure I've managed this: you have to make sure that the "|" is not the 
first character of the line.

Take a look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Latin_alphabet

You will note that "||" is used to separate cells. "|" characters not at the 
start of a line, provided they are not marking the end of a "properties 
block", are displayed fine.

HTH HAND
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]] 