Thread Subject: Re: Quick Start Tips for wiki editing

From: Gregg Vanderheiden
Date: Thu, Oct 19 2006 1:20 PM

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Thanks Andi,

Lets put this on a quick tips page and put down under RESOURCES at bottom of
page. Then Tell everyone.
OR put it on a link on the left side.

BTW it is good to give an example of nested or you never figure it out.

1) Fruit
* banana
* orange
2) Vegetables

Is

#Fruit
#*banana
#*orange
#Vegetable


Gregg

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> Subject: [teitac-tools] Quick Start Tips for wiki editing
>
>
> 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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