Wiki Creole

Wiki Creole is an attempt to standardize the markups of different wiki engines and improve interoperability. Hatta's markup is closely based on Wiki Creole, but doesn't follow the specification word-for-word. Some things are missing, some things are added, in particular:

• there are no numbered lists,
• there is no escape character,
• there are no macros,
• a space is required after bullets in lists,
• there is syntax highlighting of code,
• there are emoticons (smileys),
• there are common typographical shortcuts for dashes or ellipsis,
• indenting a block of text turns it into preformatted block,

This looks like a long list, but it's really not that big a deal in practice – that's why Hatta is marked as supporting Wiki Creole on the Wiki Matrix.