Linden H van der (MI) wrote:
To all document editors,

Seeing Mark's work and my own I decided that we best set some basic
rules for writing the documentation and using particular styling. This
improves a consistent look and prevents tedious cleanup at a later
stage.

This is what I propose (and I know _I_ haven't been consistent):

- when describing what to do, mark the text that is shown on screen with
italics. Example:

Choose <i>Menu</i> > <i>Option</i>
Select the tab <i>SomeTab</i>

- when describing what to enter, put the text in a separate 'Formatted'
(<pre>) paragraph. Example:

Now enter:
<pre>Some command here</pre>

If possible rewrite the sentence to something like "instructions": "text
to enter", unless that becomes very awkward. In that case put the text
to be entered in bold or italics (let's decide which one).

- I prefer to mark environment variables and similar things with bold,
although I haven't yet decided where to draw the line. Text should be
readable, not colorful. ;-)

- remove any <p> tags within a <li> list item</li>
- for now: let's start marking section headers with 'Heading 1' (<h1>),
subsections with 'Heading 2' (<h2>) and so on, irrelevant of the
importance of the section compared to other documents. I know I started
with <h2> sometimes.

Note: I assume that setting this styling is done through the HTMLarea
editor, not directly in the textarea editor.

WDYT?

Bye, Helma
It would be the best if you provided your guideline as a template page YourPageShouldLookLikeThis.

OT: Suppose I'd like to review some documents that have not been published yet. Is there a special query for that?

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