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Editing Instructions
Text and other Editing Functions:
Toolbar text editing functions
This site uses a toolbar to make many of the text formatting functions simpler when creating or editing text in the white text box.
Note - When adding text to the white text box, please cut and paste it into Notepad or Wordpad first and from there into the white text box above. This strips out invisible formatting code that will become visible only after you click SAVE.
- To create a heading, click on the dropdown arrow in the Format box. (Please be restrained with your use of large headings. Often simply making your text bold will suffice.)
- To change a word from regular text to bold, highlight the text and click on the B button.
- To change a word from regular text to italics, highlight the text and click on the I button.
- To underline a word, highlight the text and click on the U button with the underscore beneath the U.
- To cross out a word, highlight the text and click on the Strike Through button.
- To create subscript (a phrase or number slightly below main text and smaller in size), type the text to be used as subscript after the word or phrase with which it is associated, then highlight the text and click the subscript button.
- To create superscript (a phrase or number slightly above main text and smaller in size), type the text to be used as superscript after the word or phrase with which it is associated, then highlight the text and click the superscript button. Superscripts are used for references or citations. Please add numbered superscripts at the bottom of the text in a separate section with external links.
- To create an external link, highlight the text that will be used for the link and click on the link button. It is the icon that looks like a small blue globe with what looks like a chain link.
- Clicking on the icon will cause a small popup box to appear called Link.
- In the box, type or paste in the hyperlink you want associated with that word.
- The format should be: http://www.foo.com (or .org,.info, .net, etc.)
- Once the link is in the box, click OK.
- To create a Table of Contents, anchor points must be created on the page referencing the headings in the Table of Contents. Here's how to do create the Table of Contents:
- Create your text in the text box, including your headings in the appropriate places
- List your headings at the top of the page of text in the same sequence in which they appear in the text
- Highlight the heading in the body of the text, and click on the anchor button.
- It will open a popup box called Anchor Properties with a field in which you can type (you may need to stretch the size of the box slightly to see the field).
- Name the anchor - usually a short, one or two word version of the heading.
- At the top of the page, highlight the matching heading, then click on the Link button.
- In the popup box, click on the Link Type dropdown box and select Link to anchor in text. It will provide you with a list of anchor phrases (the short heading phrase you used in the anchor popup box).
- Click on the dropdown box and choose your anchor ID.
- Click on the appropriate phrase and click OK.
- Repeat for the other headings.
- To indent text, select the text, then click on the Increase Indent button to indent a line or series of lines.
Wiki Text Formatting
Some text will need to use wiki text formatting that cannot be handled by the functions toolbar.
- Wiki terms are shortcuts for links to internal pages in the biofuels wiki. To create a wiki term, do the following: [[Foo]]
- Ideally, a wiki term should be created for any term, word, concept, process or idea that should have its own content. If a page with content matching that wiki term is already in the biofuels wiki, it will automatically find the wiki term.
- Note - wikis will automatically turn any word which begins with one capital letter - and is followed by one or more lower case letters - followed by one more capital - and then one or more letters of any case - into a WikiTerm. e.g.: McCrae to prevent this from happening, add a space: Mc Crae.
- Ordered lists can be created using a hash mark: #
- Bulleted lists can be created using an asterisk: *
- A new paragraph is created by a double line break (ENTER, ENTER)
- ENTER will move your cursor down two lines. To move down just one line, use SHIFT + ENTER
- To add an image, first make sure you know where the image is on your hard drive so that you can easily navigate to it.
- Place and click your mouse in the location in the white text box where you want the picture to appear.
- Move your cursor to the image button on the toolbar and click on it. It is the small yellow icon with the picture of what looks like mountains.
- A popup box will appear called Image Properties
- Click on the Upload tab in the popup box and then on the Browse button.
- Clicking on the Browse button will open a file explorer box - use it to navigate to where your picture is located
- Select your picture and click Open. (This will load the file location into the white box next to the Browse button.)
- Click Send it to the Server. It should give you a message saying: A file with the same name is already available. The uploaded file has been renamed Foo.jpg Click on the OK button.
- Clicking on the OK button will return you to the Image Info tab of the Image Properties popup box. You can adjust the properties now, or you can click OK and play with the image properties once you've seen how it appears in the wiki page.
File formats:
- Only the following image file formats should be used:
- If you have a table or a chart in Powerpoint or Excel, please first convert them to one of the image formats above before adding them to your text.
- Do not upload large files - it will make the page very slow to load. Please limit your file size to no more than 5MB.
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