Moin Wiki Macros

With the exception of the markup supported within FootNotes, the MoinWiki and CreoleWiki parsers have identical macro syntax and features. The contents of this MoinWiki page will yield similar results when copied to a CreoleWiki page.

Features that are not working correctly are marked with MOINTODO:

Four Built-in Macros

There are four built-in macros.

TableOfContents

The number of levels in the table of contents can be limited by passing an integer parameter.

Markup:

<<TableOfContents(3)>>

Result:

See TOC floated to right.

FootNotes

Markup:

Footnotes can be placed by using the macro syntax.<<FootNote(A macro is enclosed in double angle brackets, and '''may''' have markup.)>>

By default footnotes are placed at the bottom of the page. Explicit placement of footnotes is accomplished by calling the macro without a parameter:

<<FootNote()>>

Subsequent footnotes<<FootNote(This footnote is placed at bottom of page by default.)>> will be numbered starting with 1 and placed at the bottom of the page by default.

Result:

Footnotes can be placed by using the macro syntax. ¹

By default footnotes are placed at the bottom of the page. Explicit placement of footnotes is accomplished by calling the macro without a parameter:

Subsequent footnotes ¹ will be numbered starting with 1 and placed at the bottom of the page by default.

BR - Forced Line Break

Markup:

Use a BR macro <<BR>>to force a line break.

Result:

Use a BR macro
to force a line break.

Include

Markup:

Include an image (very similar to transclusion):

<<Include(help-common/logo.png)>>

- - - - end of <Include(help-common/logo.png)> - - - -

Include all items with names beginning with "archive" within all namespaces. Any regex will work,
but first character must be "^". Name and Namespace are separate Whoosh index fields, attempts
to include a leading namespace will fail.

<<Include(^archive)>>

- - - - end of <Include(^archive)> - - - -

Include a page with a heading level 6 inside a comment. Click the "Comments"
link inside Item Views to show/hide the inclusion.

{{{{#!wiki comment/dashed
<<Include(help-en/InclusionForMoinWikiMacros,My Favorite Page, 6)>>
}}}}

- - - - end of <Include(help-en/InclusionForMoinWikiMacros,My Favorite Page, 6)> - - - -

Result:

Include an image (very similar to transclusion):

- - - - end of <Include(help-common/logo.png)> - - - -

Include all items with names beginning with "archive" within all namespaces. Any regex will work, but first character must be "^". Name and Namespace are separate Whoosh index fields, attempts to include a leading namespace will fail.

- - - - end of <Include(^archive)> - - - -

Include a page and a heading level 6 inside a comment. Click the "Comments" link inside Item Views to show/hide the inclusion.

- - - - end of <Include(help-en/InclusionForMoinWikiMacros,My Favorite Page, 6)> - - - -

MOINTODO: Some of the moin 1.9 parameters documented in https://moinmo.in/HelpOnMacros/Include are not supported. These include: from, to, sort, items, skipitems, titlesonly, and editlink.

Extension Macros from MoinMoin/macro/

Anchor

Anchors are created (but invisible of course). Click here to scroll the window to the anchor following Result below.

Markup:

<<Anchor(anchorname)>>

Result:

Date

Markup:

<<Date()>>

<<Date(1434563755)>>

<<Date(2002-01-23T12:34:56)>>

Do this after <<Date()>> but before <<Date(2022-01-23T12:34:56)>>.

Result:

Do this after 2026-01-16z but before 2022-01-23z.

DateTime

Markup:

<<DateTime()>>

<<DateTime(1434563755)>>

<<DateTime(2002-01-23T12:34:56)>>

Do this after <<DateTime()>> but before <<DateTime(2022-01-23T12:34:56)>>.

Result:

Do this after 2026-01-16 21:01:28z but before 2022-01-23 12:34:56z.

FontAwesome

The FontAwesome macro displays FontAwesome fonts. See https://fontawesome.com/search?o=r&m=free for the list of the 2,018 fonts available with FontAwesome version 6.

The format of the macro is:

<<FontAwesome(name,color,size)>>

The color and size parameters are optional.

The FontAwesome “name” parameter may include multiple space-separated names. The free fonts are divided into 3 groups: solid, regular (outline), and brands. If the name field consists of a single font name, then the font from the the solid group is displayed. To display a font from the regular group, add “regular” to the name field. To display a font from the brands group, add “brands”.

The FontAwesome color field may be an HTML color name or a hex digit color code with a leading #: #f00 or #F80000. The size field must be an unsigned decimal integer or float that will adjust the size of the character relative to the current font size: 2 or 2.0 will create double the character size, .5 will create a character half the current size.

Markup:

        <<FontAwesome(thumbs-up,#f00,2)>> is similar to

        <<FontAwesome(regular thumbs-up,red,2)>> but different from these spinners

        <<FontAwesome(spin spinner,plum,2.5)>> <<FontAwesome(fan spin-reverse,orange,2.5)>>

Result:

• is similar to

• but different from these spinners

GetText

Loads I18N texts. If this browser is set to German/Deutsch the macro output will be: Einstellungen ("Settings" is included in the translation files).

Markup:

<<GetText(Settings)>>

Result:

GetVal

For GetVal to work, there must be either a ConfigDict or WikiDict defined (see config docs). This example depends upon an item named help-en/WikiDict having specific metadata. See configuration docs for details.

Markup:

<<GetVal(help-en/WikiDict,var1)>>

Result:

Icon

The Icon macro displays an icon. The complete list of available icons are listed within /Icons.

Markup:

Here is the moin icon: <<Icon(moin-logo.png)>>

Result:

Here is the moin icon:

ItemList

This section is partitioned into subsections, one for each ItemPageList parameter.

Most of the examples below search for descendents under the top-level "OtherTextItems" item, the only sample-wiki item that contains a significant number of descendents.

The "item" parameter

Markup:

The default is the current page:

<<ItemList()>>

An empty string gives the wiki root.

<<ItemList(item="")>>

An item that does not exist (potentially due to ACLs) produces a warning:

<<ItemList(item="DoesNotExist")>>

An item that has no children (potentially due to ACLs) produces a message stating so:

<<ItemList(item="Home/subitem")>>

Result:

The default is the current page:

An empty string gives the wiki root. The output is suppressed here because it can produce a very long result list.

An item that does not exist (potentially due to ACLs) produces a warning:

An item that has no children (potentially due to ACLs) produces a message stating so:

The "ordered" parameter

Lists are unordered (ordered="False") by default (see above for examples).

Markup:

An ordered list:

<<ItemList(item="help-en/OtherTextItems", ordered="True")>>

Result:

An ordered list:

The "startswith" parameter

Search for items where the descendent's name begins with the letter 'P'. Note that using the "startswith" parameter is more efficient than the equivalent "regex" expression:

Markup:

<<ItemList(item="help-en/OtherTextItems", startswith="P")>>

Result:

The "regex" parameter

Markup:

Those items containing the string "Text" anywhere in the full path name:

<<ItemList(item="help-en/OtherTextItems", regex="Text")>>

Those items containing the string "Text" only in the descendent's name:

<<ItemList(item="help-en/OtherTextItems", regex="^.*/.*Text")>>

Those items containing a vowel as the 3rd-to-last character:

<<ItemList(item="help-en/OtherTextItems", regex="(?i)[aeiou].{2}$")>>

Result:

Those items containing the string "Text" anywhere in the full path name:

Those items containing the string "Text" only in the descendent's name:

Those items containing a vowel as the 3rd-to-last character:

The "display" parameter

All of the following examples display just the "PlainText" item, except for the last example that displays the subitems of help-en/creole.

Markup:

Displayed using "FullPath" (the default, see examples above):

<<ItemList(item="help-en/OtherTextItems", regex="PlainText", display="FullPath")>>

Displayed using "ChildPath":

<<ItemList(item="help-en/OtherTextItems", regex="PlainText", display="ChildPath")>>

Displayed using "ChildName":

<<ItemList(item="help-en/OtherTextItems", regex="PlainText", display="ChildName")>>

Displayed using "UnCameled":

<<ItemList(item="help-en/OtherTextItems", regex="PlainText", display="UnCameled")>>

Displayed using "ItemTitle":

<<ItemList(item="help-en/creole", display="ItemTitle")>>

Result:

Displayed using "FullPath":

Displayed using "ChildPath":

Displayed using "ChildName":

Displayed using "UnCameled":

Displayed using "ItemTitle":

MailTo

The MailTo macro exports different markup when the user is logged in.

Markup:

<<MailTo(user AT example DOT org)>>

<<MailTo(user AT example DOT org, write me)>>

Result:

MonthCalendar

The MonthCalendar macro is for those who need a calendar wiki integration or want to use MoinMoin as a Personal Information Manager.

Markup:

<<MonthCalendar(item,year,month,month_offset,fixed_height,anniversary)>>

For more details see /MonthCalendar

PageTitle

Create a H1 look-alike that will not be included in TableOfContents.

Markup:

<<PageTitle(My Page Title)>>

Result

RandomItem

Markup:

One random item:

<<RandomItem()>>

Five random items:

<<RandomItem(5)>>

Result:

One random item:

Five random items:

RandomQuote

This macro randomly selects a quote from a list in the specified item (default: FortuneCookies in the current namespace).

Markup:

A random Quote:

Quote 1.: <<RandomQuote()>>

Quote 2.: <<RandomQuote(help-en/FortuneCookies)>>

Result:

Two random quotes:

• Quote 1.:

  I like MoinMoin Wiki

• Quote 2.:

  This is a random quote generated by the RandomQuote macro

ShowUserGroup

This macro displays the contents of the metadata defined in the "usergroup" attribute. Because this item has no metadata usergroup attribute, the result shown below represents sample output.

Markup:

    <<ShowUserGroup()>>

Result:

['JillDoe', 'JaneDoeGroup', '+JohnDoe']

ShowWikiDict

This macro displays the contents of the metadata defined in the "wikidict" attribute. Because this item has no metadata usergroup attribute, the result shown below represents sample output.

Markup:

    <<ShowWikiDict()>>

Result:

{'dog': 'Hund', 'cat': 'Katze'}

SlideShow

A slideshow can be defined on a single wiki page, with the slides separated by level 1 and 2 headings. The text before the first heading is ignored. The macro creates a link to start the presentation.

Navigating through the slides works by various means:

• Use the left and right arrow keys to move to the previous and next slide
• Alternatively, you can click on the gray navigation links on the left and right edges of the screen
• There are icons at the bottom to switch to the first or last slide and to exit presentation mode
• Use the up and down arrow keys to scroll up and down within the content if it does not fit in the browser window
• The browser's built-in zoom function can be used to adjust the size of the presentation to your needs

Markup:

    <<SlideShow()>>

Result:

• Start SlideShow

TitleIndex

TitleIndex gives a List of all Itemnames in the current namespace grouped by initials.

Markup:

<<TitleIndex()>>

Result:

Verbatim

Markup:

Verbatim macro Returns `same` __text__ '''as''' entered

<<Verbatim(Returns `same` __text__ '''as''' entered)>>

<<Verbatim(<script>alert(1);</script>)>>

Result:

Verbatim macro Returns same text as entered