User:Hans/Examples

Basic formatting

Section headings

Section headings are created as follows:

== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======

Note

Level 1 is reserved for the page title and should not be used.

Paragraphs and newlines

Paragraphs are created by separating two blocks of text with at least one empty line. For example, this does not create a new paragraph.

This is a new paragraph.

A newline can be inserted manually like this,
but use it sparely.

Text formatting ?

Examples of italic text, bold text and bold and italic text. See Typographical Guidelines for more information about when to use what.

Lists

Information

Bulleted lists are preferred whenever possible.

Bulleted lists

One
Two
- Two point one
Three

Numbered lists

One
Two
1. Two point one
Three

Definition lists

item 1: definition 1
item 2: definition 2-1; definition 2-2

Indenting text

No indent (normal)

First indent

Further indents can cause problems and should not be used

Escape wiki markup ?

Sometimes it is useful to escape the wiki markup, for example if you want to show the markup of how to write '''bold text''' without the text turning bold. In such cases you can put <nowiki> and </nowiki> between the text that should remain unformatted.

Common elements

Code

In running text code is written like this.

The code in this box is input by the user
  Indent with whitespace

This is some output the user would read from e.g. Konsole
It works in a similar way as the input box above

# The input and output box also support syntax highlighting
# This is useful for displaying source code, see example below

# Initialise common code
$preIP = dirname( __FILE__ );
require_once( "$preIP/includes/WebStart.php" );

Links

This is a link to a wiki page: Dolphin

A link with custom text

An external link

Images

A single centered image

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

Thumbnail with caption

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

Multiple images in a grid

More examples

More detailed examples can be found on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images.

Quotes

This is a quote from another page

Information, Note, Tip and Warning box

Information

This is general information

Note

Some important information at this point

Tip

A helpful piece of advice, something to remember

Warning

Take care - this is a dangerous thing to do

Special text?

Dates

Dates are written as 18 Mar 2011. The month is either spelled out completely or in abbreviated form (first three letters), and the year is in 4-digit format. The day may be single or double-digit.

Keyboard keys and shortcuts

Press Enter

You can use Alt + Shift + E to edit a page in UserBase.

Menus and sequence of choices?

A sequence of menu choices should look like this: File -> Create New -> Folder...

Other sequences have a similar look, for example System Settings -> Hardware -> Multimedia

Filenames and paths

This is an example of a filename: some_file.txt

A path is written in a similar way: ~/some/path/

Application pages

Application screenshot and description

The dedicated file manager focusing on usability

KDE3 and KDE SC 4 versions

If you write about the KDE3 version of an application, you should use this icon.

If information about the KDE SC 4 version appears an the same page, you can use this icon.