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===Layout=== | ===Layout=== |
Revision as of 12:41, 26 October 2007
The Manual of Style for MidrangeWiki is a work in progress.
Contents
Articles
Titles
First letter capitalized, rest of title lowercase.
- See also on Wikipedia: Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(technical_restrictions)
- Note that while article links can be written with or without a leading capital letter, the article title always begins with a capital letter due to the restriction above.
Layout
Before Introduction / Section -1
- Before the introductory paragraph, use {{SeealsoWP|WikipediaArticleName}} to add a link(s) to Wikipedia articles.
- Before the introductory paragraph, use {{Seealso|MidrangeWikiArticleName}} to add disambiguation link(s) to other similarly named MidrangeWiki articles.
Introduction / Section 0
- Short introduction paragraph, usually 1-3 sentences.
- Use template {{AN}} to reference the article's name in a consistently formatted style.
- Use template {{bu}} to spell out acronyms.
Content / Sections 1-(X-1)
Create section breaks as appropriate to the layout and content of the article.
Trailing Sections
- (optional) for related MidrangeWiki articles
==See also==
- (optional) for off-MidrangeWiki webpages, such as IBM
==External links==
- (required)
==Categories==
Formatting
- For in-paragraph notations, such as PC file names or directories, use {{code}}.
- Example: The default directory for iSeries Access workstation files is
IBM\Client Access\Emulator\private
.
- Example: The default directory for iSeries Access workstation files is
- For offset text which should not be wiki-parsed, such as source for CL, RPG, html or XML, use the
<pre>CodeListingHere</pre>
tags.- Example: Hello, World in CL
PGM SNDMSG MSG('Hello, World!') TOUSR(*REQUESTER) ENDPGM