Thread Subject: Quick Start Tips for wiki editing

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From: Andi Snow-Weaver
Date: Thu, Oct 19 2006 8:20 AM

Here are some quick start tips for the wiki that I sent to someone this
morning. I thought they might be useful for others.

These are meant to supplement the great instructions that Jared provided
[1].

For most structure and formatting, you enclose text in a specific
character.

For headings, enclose text in equal (=) signs. For example:
= 1st Level =
== 2nd Level ==
=== 3rd Level ===
=== Another 3rd Level ===
== Another 2nd Level ==
etc.

For unordered lists, use asterisks (*). For example
* List item 1 *
* List item 2 *
* List item 3 *
** nested list item 1 **
** nested list item 2 **
*** nested nested list item 1 ***
*** nested nested list item 2 ***
** nested list item 3 **
etc.

For ordered lists, use number symbols (#).
# .. #
# .. #
# .. #
## .. ##
## .. ##
### ... ###
### ... ###
## .. ##
etc.

You can nest ordered lists within unordered lists and vice versa.

To emphasize text, enclose it in two single quotes(') for italics and three
single quotes for bold
'text you want italicized'
''text you want in bold''

To start a new paragraph, use two carriage returns (press Enter twice).

Links are a little trickier and I often have to look up how to do them in
the help text. Links are enclosed in square brackets ([ ... ]).
Single brackets are external links and double brackets are internal links
(internal to the wiki site). This is not intuitive to me, however, so I
often do it wrong the first time. Basically, you put the URL first, then a
"single" character (space for external links, vertical bar (|) for internal
links), then the link text. It's picky about the number of characters
between the URL and the link text I think. It has to be exactly one. Here
are some examples:

[http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc Time Zone Converter] -
this is an external link to the Time Zone Converter.

[[Web and Software:October 18|October 18, 2006]] - this is an internal link
(to another page in the same wiki website). The URL of this page is
http://teitac.org/wiki/Web_and_Software:October_18. So you can strip off
everything to the left of the slash after "wiki", including the slash.

[[themes]] - this is an internal link to the themes page. If the page name
is the same as the link text, that's all you need. You don't have to do the
part to the left of the vertical bar (|).

Other tips:

Work on small sections at a time because the server timeout is pretty small
- 15 minutes maybe.
Copy from other pages to get started. To do this, you have to "edit" the
document or section. Just don't save it.
Use Show Preview to inspect it before you save it. But don't forget to save
or your work will be lost.

[1] http://teitac.org/wiki/TEITAC_wiki

Andi

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