[pmwiki-users] BasicEditing, TipsForEditing, TextFormattingRules revision
Bronwyn Boltwood
arndis at gmail.com
Fri Aug 26 18:16:31 CDT 2005
On 8/26/05, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> So, I'm not sure what to do with TextFormattingRules. We could
> go ahead and leave it as a long descriptive page with lots of markups
> and examples, but I'm not sure who would use it or when (which is why
> I'm wondering if it's needed).
Make a list of all the markup help pages that already exist:
AdvancedTables
BasicEditing
UsingCategories (for category markup)
ConditionalMarkup
Creating New Pages (to teach people how)
DeletingPages (to teach people how)
EditQuickReference
GoodStyle
Images
ImagesInWikiPages (merge this and Images)
IncludeOtherPages
InterMap
Links (this page is incomplete, BTW)
ListStyles
MarkupVariables
SimpleTables
SimpleTables2
SpecialCharacters
Other special markups
TextFormattingRules
TipsForEditing
Uploads (for upload markup)
WikiStyles
WikiTrails
Sort them into groups:
Advanced help
ConditionalMarkup
IncludeOtherPages
MarkupVariables
SpecialCharacters
SpecialMarkups
Beginner help
BasicEditing
Creating New Pages
DeletingPages
GoodStyle
TipsForEditing
Images
Images
ImagesInWikiPages
Links
Links (this page is incomplete, BTW)
InterMap
Uploads
UsingCategories
WikiTrails
Tables
SimpleTables
SimpleTables2
AdvancedTables
Text Formatting
ListStyles
WikiStyles
Determine a structure, and then merge, split, and extract as
necessary. Here's the structure I'd aim to end up with. Items that
are pages in their own right have [[double brackets]]. If an item
should link to more information, it'll have (pointer to [[foo]]) after
it. The order might need some work.
[[HelpForBeginners]]
* basic text formatting and linking rules
* creating and deleting pages
* GoodStyle suggestions
[[Links]]
* free links
* wikiwords
* external links and images (basically, "URLs ending with .gif, .jpg,
or .png are displayed as images in the page.") (pointer to [[Images]])
* how to change the displayed text
* uploads (pointer to [[Uploads]])
* wikitrails (pointer to [[WikiTrails]])
* linking within the page
* categories (pointer to [[UsingCategories]])
* intermap (pointer to [[InterMap]])
[[Blocks]] (anyone got a better name, BTW?)
* paragraphs
* headings
* separators
* linebreaks
* preventing formatting
[[Text Formatting]]
* emphasis
* lists (pointer to [[ListStyles]])
* monospace
* size
* other (e.g. superscript)
* [[WikiStyles]]
* [[SpecialCharacters]]
[[Images]]
Tables
* [[SimpleTables]]
* [[AdvancedTables]]
Advanced Help
* [[IncludeOtherPages]]
* [[MarkupVariables]]
* [[ConditionalMarkup]]
The structure could be kept in a trailpage called MarkupHelp.
Bronwyn
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