Hi, Lisa,
TOFU (Text Over, Fullquote Under) is fine for two-party exchanges, but
bottom replies are better for a list, so that's what I'm doing here.
On 6/13/2010 02:34, Clayton wrote:
On 06/13/2010 04:25 AM, Lisa Woods wrote:
Hi TJ-- I corrected the errors you noted, except that I have some unwanted
bullets on the sample outline. The coding is something I'll catch on to I
suppose--I'll try. In this case, for the first (errant) version I did use
the outline procedure in Writer as described, and I used the extension (SWP)
to export it, then I opened the text file in Wordpad, cut and pasted to the
wiki. I had not noticed that it numbered the outline differently, but it
sure did.
For now I'll try some more FAQs and put up notes on this list when done.
Replies such as yours are always welcome.
Nice work Lisa :-)
A few other minor formatting comments.
You can put the {{Documentation/CheckedAccuracy|[[yourname and date}}
part above<section begin=question/> and immediately below the
DISPLAYTITLE. This will move it above the question and the FAQ will
"flow" a bit better.
The Note at the bottom... you start it out with "Caution..." If it is a
caution, we have a caution box (Template) you can use.
{{Documentation/Caution|the caution text}}
You can remove the word "Caution:" from the caution text if you do this.
When you are showing a menu path in text, you can use just> instead of
-> The extra - isn't needed.
Like I said... minor formatting issues. Editing on the Wiki takes a
little practice, and a bit of time to learn what styles we're using.
We'll help you out along the way :-)
C.
Again, top-down importance:
* Bullets:
/Mea culpa/ on that. (Funny how a little testing improves my
pontificating.) I prescribed:
*I. Hound...
**A. Beagle...
**#13 inch...
&c.
But I was wrong, twice. First, there is an extra (unwanted) layer of
asterisks; second, the asterisks should all be colons (":"). Like,
I. Hound
:A. Beagle...
:#13 inch...
&c.
I did test this, and it works as desired. As for why we had to do this
in the first place, thank you (I think... ;-) for confirming my dark
suspicions. :-/ I will attempt to file an issue on it. SWP needs
improvement, on this and other things.
* OOA styles:
A lot of the material on the wiki comes from OOAuthors, and hence
follows their (our) conventions; not really a requirement elsewhere on
the wiki, but it's nice. In particular, menu paths are bold: '''Format >
Bullets and Numbering'''. Keystrokes are italic: ''Enter''. User-typed
stuff is rendered in a mono-spaced font; on the wiki, <tt>User-typed
stuff</tt>. Among other things, these conventions allow us to avoid
quotation-marks in most situations. In the OOA .odt documents, these all
have their own character styles, and (thankfully) SWP will translate
them properly.
Here are a couple of helpful links, from a previous post by JHW.
http://www.oooauthors.org/english/userguide3/res3/style_guide_V3.odt/view
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Help_Style_Guide#Formats
--
/tj/
PS: what glorious weather! I open my windows early in May, and don't
shut them again (storms excepted) until the end of October. Pfui on A/C.
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