[pmwiki-users] TextFormattingRules and BasicEditing

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Mar 2 23:41:24 CST 2006


On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 06:00:33PM -0500, Bronwyn Boltwood wrote:
>    On 3/2/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>      Do we need to have both the TextFormattingRules and BasicEditing
>      pages?  They seem largely duplicative.  If we need both, what's
>      the main difference between them?
> 
>    Assuming that no minor markups have slipped through the cracks, the
>    difference is in the approach.  Text Formatting Rules is for people like
>    me, who like to read the manual and understand how the thing works.  Basic
>    Editing is much more a "get the job done" page.

Well, the "read the manual and understand how the thing works"
pages are supposed to be the pages listed near the beginning
of the Documentation Index -- the "beginner topics" and "intermediate
editing topics" pages.  Do those not work for this?  

Pm




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