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1 Information on Editing and Wiki Syntax
2 Stylistic and Editorial Policies for the NeoWiki
3 Sandbox
4 Style Guide Discussion

Information on Editing and Wiki Syntax

From the MediaWiki site

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Reference_card

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table

From the Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page

Stylistic and Editorial Policies for the NeoWiki

had some rules on the old wiki. They went something like:

Keep the pages short. If a page is long, it probably contains too many subjects and should be split into two or more pages.
MediaWiki splits title words on spaces (and transforms them into underscores in page URLs). Name new pages with a descriptive title.

NeoJInfo is a bad page title.
Information about NeoOffice or NeoOffice Information are good page titles.
Both title case (Adding a Search Control to a Form) and sentence case (Contributing to the NeoOffice projects) are acceptable for page titles the English wiki. For page titles with a large number of words (more than a half-dozen or so), sentence case is slightly more popular; for shorter titles, title case is preferred. (See Style and Formatting Guide for section titles.)
Try to avoid using most non-alphanumeric characters in page titles, unless such characters are required by your language (e.g. "captures d'Ã©cran" in French) or essential to making the title of the article clear. Hyphens and periods are OK, but characters such as commas, semi-colons, quotes, and parentheses should be avoided. Colons should only be used for pages in Namespaces (such as Help:Contents) or our language pseudo-namespaces (e.g., Fr:Accueil).
Do not choose page titles which end with scp or ftp or other well-known internet protocols, or common extensions for executable files (exe); the server will not display those pages.
Always add a comment (summary) of your change.
When adding a new page, be sure to include the appropriate Category tag(s) on the page.
For discussion or questions, post on the Talk (discussion) page for the article or editor in question (for discussion around a specific edit), or start a new thread in the NeoWiki forum at trinity.
Rebranding: consult the Rebranding page for the latest info about rebranding NeoOffice/J as NeoOffice in the wiki
When linking to a page at www.neooffice.org, English pages must use language-agnostic urls, e.g. http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/download.php instead of http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/download.php
Doing so allows redirecting to a user's preferred language if it exists on www.neooffice.org.
- When linking to a section on a page (an anchor), e.g. http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/download.php#installlanguages, use the following format instead to work-around a Safari bug: http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/download.php?fragment=installlanguages
When linking to a post in the Trinity forums, prefer the http URL (Trinity current will redirect logged in or logged out users as appropriate, but old links are all http and most visitors are likely not going to be logged-in users).

Style and Formatting Guide

When adding new information to the wiki or editing existing information, always adhere to the NeoWiki Style guidelines below:

Menus, submenus, and menu items - always use sentences, not "->" or other shorthand. And not just sentences, but sentences that instruct the user on what to do (pull down menus, select buttons, check boxes, etc.) in the order that they appear to the user. E.g., "In the View menu, under Toolbars, select Customize." Names of the menu, submenu, or item are boldface.
- Use the Menu template: {{menu|Name of Menu or Menu Item}}

"Dialogue/window titles" or "Preference Option Name" - ~~currently, sometimes boldface, sometimes in "quotes"~~
~~The format for the above elements has yet to be frozen; they should stand out but also more easily be distinguished from menus and filenames.~~
- Use the Window template for dialogue/window titles: {{Window|Title of Window}}
- Use the prefName template for preferences/options (selecting a radio button, checkbox, or item from a pop-up menu): {{prefName|Text of Preference/Option}}
- Use the Section template for names of sub-sections in different preference windows (e.g. Printer Warnings in the Print preferences) or for tabs in a tabbed window: {{section|Name of Preference Section or Tab}}
  See Image:Section_vs_prefName.png for an illustration.
  Also use the Section template for names of items in the sidebar in the Preferences window (e.g., "NeoOffice Writer" or "Tables")
Buttons - ~~this format needs to decided upon yet. For now, treat as above.~~
- Use the Button template: {{button|Name of Button}}
Keyboard commands (e.g., pressing return or âŒ˜-S, but not typing a string of text): {{key|name of key/shortcut combination}}

Filenames - standaloneâ€”not part of a pathâ€”should be boldface.
- Application Names - when referring to another application in an article (e.g., "Open Activity Monitor and clickâ€¦"), use boldface.

Paths (including paths ending with a filename) or Terminal commands - use the <tt>typewriter</tt> tag for single lines or, heaven forbid, the <pre>
```
preformatted text
```
</pre> tag for blocks of code.

For section titles, both title case (e.g. Recording a Simple Macro) and sentence case (How to create a character style) are acceptable for the English wiki. Be consistent within an individual article. Note that if you are cleaning up an existing article, other articles might link to the existing section names, so perform due diligence to find and correct those links when cleaning up.

Use NeoOffice and OpenOffice.org, not Neo and OOo (in certain cases, such as the trademark guidelines or press materials, use NeoOfficeÂ® instead).

While the MediaWiki editing guidelines referenced above call for authors and editors to always sign contributions, the NeoWiki does not adhere to that practice in articles. Similar to an encyclopedia, we want to present a unified article, unbroken by editing dates and user signatures.
- When adding items to Discussion (Talk:) pages, do sign your additions/comments.

Mac vs. Windows/Unix/Linux Conventions

Since the goal of NeoOffice is making OpenOffice.org more Mac-like, we should always prefer "Mac conventions" where possible; e.g., sending someone to the Activity Monitor utility to quit a hung process instead of ps -aux | grep blah, and using the Preferencesâ€¦ item in the NeoOffice menu rather than the Windows-like Tools menu, Options item.

If something can't be done (or can't be done as easily) without firing up the Terminal, fine, but let's prefer Mac-friendly instructions. (This also conforms with Waldo's points 3-6 in the style guide discussion.)

Fixme articles

We employ the fixme template and its localized equivalents (see below) to indicate articles that are in need of work. Sometimes an article is only in need of style fixes, or changes such as turning a quick list of facts into a readable article; sometimes the content needs updating for changes in NeoOffice or Mac OS X, but sometimes the article needs a complete rewrite.

Also, when making a significant update to an English page that is translated, NeoWiki editors usually try to mark the corresponding translations with those languages' fixme templates to make sure the translators know to update their translations.

If you understand the changes that need to be made and have made them, you should remove the fixme template from the article. If you're unsure what changes need to be made to an article, or if your editing has fixed the article, ask in the NeoWiki forum on trinity.

Notes about URLs in Templates

When including URLs to trinity (or similar pages with ? = & and other characters in them) in templates directly, the characters must be encoded or they'll fubar the display of the template (it seems the = are the most problematic; who'd have thought!?):

From MediaWiki, with a few additions they missed:

Conversion (hexadecimal ASCII value with a percent sign in front):

 "   #   $   %   &   '   (   )   *   ,   :   ;   <   >   [   ]   ^   `   {   |   }   ?   =
%22 %23 %24 %25 %26 %27 %28 %29 %2a %2c %3a %3b %3c %3e %5b %5d %5e %60 %7b %7c %7d %3f %3d

Available Templates

Here is an incomplete list of the templates already started for the NeoWiki. (As time permits, we will try to better document the use of them)

Editing help for Templates

See also Guidelines for Translating the NeoWiki#Notes for information on translating templates and the new and deprecated naming schemes for such templates.

( and Phillipe have added several new templates recently [Nov 2005]) - All Templates

Administrative Templates

Template:Fixme, Template:Fr:Fixme, Template:de:Fixme, Template:it:Fixme, Template:es:Fixme - adds a note to a page needing updates and adds the page to the "Fixme" category
Template:InTranslation - adds a note to the top of the page indicating the article is being translated and the full text can be found in one or more other languages
Template:LastUpdated - adds a "Last Updated:" note at the top of a page (for semi-stable pages that do sometimes get substantive updates, like the NeoOffice 2.1 Press Kit or NeoOffice Feature Comparison) with the date of the last substantive change.
Template:Obsolete - adds a note to a page indicating that the page is obsolete (used for pages describing discontinued applications)

Formatting templates

Template:Bluebox - used on Main Page and in the NeoOffice 2.1 Press Kit
This template is designed to work only by including another page; if you want to use the bluebox style for free-form text, use Template:Bluebox2 instead
Template:Alertbox - used for critical alerts
Template:redbox - used for important notices (non-critical)
E.g. references to the Trademark Usage Policy on the Build Instructions page and the translations of the Trademark Usage page
Template:Yellowcolumn - actually pink, used on new Main Page
Template:Dashedbox
Template:preBox - used to wrangle multi-line pre-formatted text into lists, such as here
Template:Handbook sidebar
Template:Imagebox
Template:ImageboxRight
Template:Window - this is "under development" and a first stab at fleshing out the undifferentiated features of the style guide (window title vs. tab/pane title vs. option/setting title, etc.)
Template:BlueRow - for table alternate row bgcolor
Template:HeaderRow - for table header bgcolor
Template:Y - Yes
Template:N - No
Template:W - Warning
Template:Clickpic - Clickable image (used in "Aqua is Here")

Content Templates

Template:Editor toc
Template:HistoryTOC - for the NeoHistory article; uses the Handbook sidebar formatting template
Template:DatabaseTOC - for the database config and use set of articles; uses the Handbook sidebar formatting template
Template:x11news
Template:NeoOfficeWords - for the new Main Page
Template:NeoLightWords - for the new Main Page
Template:OOoWords - for the new Main Page
Template:MainPageNewsEN -- content templates for the bluebox in in the Welcome section of the Main Page
Template:Fr:MainPageNews
Template:MainPageTerryEN, Template:Fr:MainPageTerry, Template:De:MainPageTerry - Terry Teague memorial
template:x11sidebar - menu for the side of X11 pages
Template:NeoPatchVer - neo patch version
Template:NeoEAPPatchVer - EAP patch version
Template:NeoLegPatchVer - legacy release patch version (e.g., Neo 2.2.6 for 10.3.9)
Template:EAPversion, Template:EAPend, Template:EAPstart - for any EAP date or version references
Template:oooversion - OOo version
Template:Retroversion - RetroOffice version
Template:NeoMASVer - NeoOffice Mac App Store version
Template:NeoVer - NeoOffice Classic Edition version (non-Main Page usages; currently updated via Template:NeoMainPageVer)
Template:NeoMainPageVer - Current stable, non-EA NeoOffice release; this template is for Main Page (English and localized) use only!
Template:NeoOOoVer - OOo version used by the current stable, non-EA NeoOffice release; this template is for Main Page (English and localized) use only!

Wiki Translation Templates

There are also a series of style and content templates specific to the wiki translation efforts; see Guidelines for Translating the NeoWiki for more info about these templates. Please do not replace these templates with other templates or use these templates for other purposes. A non-exhaustive list (will grow as more languages are added) follows.

Content

Template:OtherLangs, Template:fr:OtherLangs, Template:de:OtherLangs, Template:it:OtherLangs, Template:es:OtherLangs

Formatting

Sandbox

established the Test page for everyone to use to try out editing and wiki techniques without fear of messing up any of the existing pages. If you want to experiment with how the wiki works, do so on that page.

Style Guide Discussion

For details about how we arrived at these rules and other discussion of the Style Guide, see Style Guide Discussion on this article's Discussion page.

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Categories: Administrativa | Contributing | NeoOffice

 === Information on Editing and Wiki Syntax ===
-* From the Media Wiki site
+* From the MediaWiki site
+:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Reference_card
 :http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing
 :http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table
 * Keep the pages short.  If a page is long, it probably contains too many subjects and should be split into two or more pages.
 * MediaWiki splits title words on spaces (and transforms them into underscores in page URLs).  Name new pages with a descriptive title.<br>
-:'''NeoJInfo''' is a bad page name/title.
+*:'''NeoJInfo''' is a bad page title.
-:'''Information about NeoOffice''' or '''NeoOffice Information''' are good page names/titles.
+*:'''Information about NeoOffice''' or '''NeoOffice Information''' are good page titles.
+* Both title case ([[Adding a Search Control to a Form]]) and sentence case ([[Contributing to the NeoOffice projects]]) are acceptable for page titles the English wiki.  For page titles with a large number of words (more than a half-dozen or so), sentence case is slightly more popular; for shorter titles, title case is preferred.  (See [[#Style and Formatting Guide|Style and Formatting Guide]] for section titles.)
+* Try to avoid using most non-alphanumeric characters in page titles, unless such characters are required by your language (e.g. "captures d'Ã©cran" in French) or essential to making the title of the article clear.  Hyphens and periods are OK, but characters such as commas, semi-colons, quotes, and parentheses should be avoided.  Colons should only be used for pages in Namespaces (such as [[Help:Contents]]) or our language pseudo-namespaces (e.g., [[Fr:Accueil]]).
 * '''Do not choose page titles which end with ''scp'' or ''ftp'' or other well-known internet protocols, or common extensions for executable files (''exe'');''' the server will not display those pages.
 * Always add a comment (summary) of your change.
 * For discussion or questions, post on the Talk (discussion) page for the article or editor in question (for discussion around a specific edit), or start a new thread in the [http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=16 NeoWiki forum at trinity].
 * '''Rebranding''': consult the [[Rebranding]] page for the latest info about rebranding NeoOffice/J as NeoOffice in the wiki
-* When linking to a page at [http://download.neooffice.org download.neooffice.org], '''English pages must use language-agnostic urls''', e.g. http://download.neooffice.org/neojava/download.php instead of http://download.neooffice.org/neojava/en/download.php
+* When linking to a page at [http://www.neooffice.org www.neooffice.org], '''English pages must use language-agnostic urls''', e.g. http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/download.php instead of http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/download.php
-*: Doing so allows redirecting to a user's preferred language if it exists on download.neooffice.org.
+*: Doing so allows redirecting to a user's preferred language if it exists on www.neooffice.org.
-** When linking to a section on a page (an anchor), e.g. http://download.neooffice.org/neojava/download.php#installlanguages use the following format instead to work-around a Safari bug: http://download.neooffice.org/neojava/download.php?fragment=installlanguages
+** When linking to a section on a page (an anchor), e.g. http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/download.php#installlanguages, use the following format instead to work-around a Safari bug: http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/download.php?fragment=installlanguages
+* When linking to a post in the [http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums Trinity forums], prefer the '''http''' URL (Trinity current will redirect logged in or logged out users as appropriate, but old links are all '''http''' and most visitors are likely not going to be logged-in users).
 ===Style and Formatting Guide===
 ** Use the {{section|Section}} template for names of sub-sections in different preference windows (e.g. Printer Warnings in the Print preferences) or for tabs in a tabbed window: <tt><nowiki>{{section|Name of Preference Section or Tab}}</nowiki></tt>
 **: ''See [[:Image:Section_vs_prefName.png]] for an illustration.
+**: Also use the {{section|Section}} template for names of items in the sidebar in the Preferences window (e.g., "NeoOffice Writer" or "Tables")
 * Buttons - <s>this format needs to decided upon yet.  For now, treat as above.</s>
 ** Use the {{button|Button}} template: <tt><nowiki>{{button|Name of Button}}</nowiki></tt>
 *<tt>Paths</tt> (including paths ending with a filename) or <tt>Terminal commands</tt> - use the <nowiki><tt></nowiki><tt>typewriter</tt><nowiki></tt></nowiki> tag for single lines or, heaven forbid, the <nowiki><pre></nowiki><pre>preformatted text</pre><nowiki></pre></nowiki> tag for blocks of code.
+* For section titles, both title case (e.g. [[Using_Macros#Recording_a_Simple_Macro|Recording a Simple Macro]]) and sentence case ([[Using_Character_Styles#How_to_create_a_character_style|How to create a character style]]) are acceptable for the English wiki. Be consistent within an individual article.  Note that if you are cleaning up an existing article, other articles might link to the existing section names, so perform due diligence to find and correct those links when cleaning up.
 * Use ''NeoOffice'' and ''OpenOffice.org'', not ''Neo'' and ''OOo'' (in certain cases, such as the trademark guidelines or press materials, use ''NeoOfficeÂ®'' instead).
 ** When adding items to '''Discussion''' (Talk:) pages, '''do sign your additions/comments'''.
-====Mac vs. Windows/*nix====
+====Mac vs. Windows/Unix/Linux Conventions====
+Since the goal of NeoOffice is making OpenOffice.org more Mac-like, we should always prefer "Mac conventions" where possible; e.g., sending someone to the '''Activity Monitor''' utility to quit a hung process instead of <tt>ps -aux | grep blah</tt>, and using the {{menu|Preferencesâ€¦}} item in the {{menu|NeoOffice}} menu rather than the Windows-like {{menu|Tools}} menu, {{menu|Options}} item.
+If something can't be done (or can't be done as easily) without firing up the ''Terminal'', fine, but let's prefer Mac-friendly instructions.  (This also conforms with Waldo's points 3-6 in the [[Help_talk:Editing#Style Guide Discussion|style guide discussion]].)
-Since the goal of Neo/J is making OOo more Mac-like, we should always prefer "Mac conventions" where possible; e.g., sending someone to the ''Activity Monitor'' utility to quit a hung process instead of <tt>ps -aux | grep blah</tt>, and using the '''Preferences...''' item in the '''NeoOffice''' menu rather than the Windows-like '''Tools''' menu, '''Options''' item.
+===Fixme articles===
-If something can't be done (or can't be done as easily) without firing up the ''Terminal'', fine, but let's prefer Mac-friendly instructions.  (This also conforms with Waldo's points 3-6 in the style guide discussion.)
+We employ the [[Template:fixme|fixme template]] and its localized equivalents (see [[#Available Templates|below]]) to indicate articles that are in need of work.  Sometimes an article is only in need of style fixes, or changes such as turning a quick list of facts into a readable article; sometimes the content needs updating for changes in NeoOffice or Mac OS X, but sometimes the article needs a complete rewrite.
+Also, when making a significant update to an English page that is translated, NeoWiki editors usually try to mark the corresponding translations with those languages' fixme templates to make sure the translators know to update their translations.
+If you understand the changes that need to be made and have made them, you should remove the fixme template from the article.  If you're unsure what changes need to be made to an article, or if your editing has fixed the article, ask in the [https://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=16 NeoWiki forum] on trinity.
 ===Notes about URLs in Templates===
 Conversion (hexadecimal ASCII value with a percent sign in front):
-  "   #   $   %   &amp;<!-- -->   '   *   ,   :   ;   <   >   [   ]   ^   `   {   |   }   ?   =
+  "   #   $   %   &amp;<!-- -->   '   (   )   *   ,   :   ;   <   >   [   ]   ^   `   {   |   }   ?   =
- %22 %23 %24 %25 %26 <!--     -->%27 %2a %2c %3a %3b %3c %3e %5b %5d %5e %60 %7b %7c %7d %3f %3d
+ %22 %23 %24 %25 %26 <!--     -->%27 %28 %29 %2a %2c %3a %3b %3c %3e %5b %5d %5e %60 %7b %7c %7d %3f %3d
 ===Available Templates===
 See also [[Guidelines for Translating the NeoWiki#Notes]] for information on translating templates and the new and deprecated naming schemes for such templates.
-''([[User:Jake|Jake]] and [[User:PhilippePerret|Phillipe]] have added several new templates recently [Nov 2005]) - [http://neowiki.sixthcrusade.com/index.php?title=Special:Allpages&from=&namespace=10 All Templates]''
+''([[User:Jake|Jake]] and [[User:PhilippePerret|Phillipe]] have added several new templates recently [Nov 2005]) - [https://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php?title=Special:Allpages&from=&namespace=10 All Templates]''
 '''Administrative Templates'''
 * [[Template:Fixme]], [[Template:Fr:Fixme]], [[Template:de:Fixme]], [[Template:it:Fixme]], [[Template:es:Fixme]] - adds a note to a page needing updates and adds the page to the "Fixme" category
-* [[Template:InTranslation]] - adds a note to the top of the page indication the article is being translated and the full text can be found in one or more other languages
+* [[Template:InTranslation]] - adds a note to the top of the page indicating the article is being translated and the full text can be found in one or more other languages
 * [[Template:LastUpdated]] - adds a "Last Updated:" note at the top of a page (for semi-stable pages that do sometimes get substantive updates, like the [[NeoOffice 2.1 Press Kit]] or [[NeoOffice Feature Comparison]]) with the date of the last ''substantive'' change.
+* [[Template:Obsolete]] - adds a note to a page indicating that the page is obsolete (used for pages describing discontinued applications)
 '''Formatting templates'''
-* [[Template:Bluebox]] - used on [[Main Page]] and in the [[NeoOffice/J Press Kit]]
+* [[Template:Bluebox]] - used on [[Main Page]] and in the [[NeoOffice 2.1 Press Kit]]
+*: This template is designed to work only by including another page; if you want to use the bluebox style for free-form text, use [[Template:Bluebox2]] instead
 * [[Template:Alertbox]] - used for critical alerts
 * [[Template:redbox]] - used for important notices (non-critical)
 * [[Template:Yellowcolumn]] - actually pink, used on new [[Main Page]]
 * [[Template:Dashedbox]]
+* [[Template:preBox]] - used to wrangle multi-line pre-formatted text into lists, such as [[Troubleshooting_Tips#Check_for_a_corrupt_Java_installation|here]]
 * [[Template:Handbook sidebar]]
 * [[Template:Imagebox]]
 * [[Template:NeoPatchVer]] - neo patch version
 * [[Template:NeoEAPPatchVer]] - EAP patch version
-* [[Template:EAPVersion]], [[Template:EAPend]], [[Template:EAPstart]] - for any EAP date or version references
+* [[Template:NeoLegPatchVer]] - legacy release patch version (e.g., Neo 2.2.6 for 10.3.9)
+* [[Template:EAPversion]], [[Template:EAPend]], [[Template:EAPstart]] - for any EAP date or version references
 * [[Template:oooversion]] - OOo version
+* [[Template:Retroversion]] - RetroOffice version
+* [[Template:NeoMASVer]] - NeoOffice Mac App Store version
+* [[Template:NeoVer]] - NeoOffice Classic Edition version (non-[[Main Page]] usages; currently updated via [[Template:NeoMainPageVer]])
+* [[Template:NeoMainPageVer]] - Current stable, non-EA NeoOffice release; this template is for  Main Page (English and localized) use only!
+* [[Template:NeoOOoVer]] - OOo version used by the current stable, non-EA NeoOffice release; this template is for  Main Page (English and localized) use only!
 ====Wiki Translation Templates====
 == Style Guide Discussion ==
-''We should eventually move this section into Help:Editing:Discussion''
+For details about how we arrived at these rules and other discussion of the Style Guide, see [[Help_talk:Editing#Style_Guide_Discussion|Style Guide Discussion]] on this article's Discussion page.
-Do we need to have a "style guide" to standardize how we represent certain functions or types of info?
-We have three "regular editors" now, plus a fair amount of legacy content from the old wiki (which had another handful of editors/contributors).  We seem to represent only one type of thing consistently among the three of us + legacy content:
-*<tt>paths</tt> (incl. paths ending with a filename) or <tt>terminal commands</tt>
-Other things seem to vary widely:
-*'''Menus''' '''submenus'''  (: or -> or something else) [[User:Waldo|Waldo]] says always use sentences, not "->".  And not just sentences, but sentences that instruct the user on what to do (pull down menus, select buttons, check boxes, etc.) '''in the order that they appear to the user'''.  Ie, "In the '''View''' menu, under '''Toolbars''', select '''Customize'''."
-*'''Menus''' (standalone in text, i.e., Choose the Tools menu--sometimes '''boldface''')
-*'''Filenames''' (standalone--should be '''boldface''')
-*"Dialogue/window titles" or "Preference Option Name" (sometimes '''boldface''', sometimes in "quotes")
-Should we agree on a wiki style for the latter types and adhere to it from here on out, and clean up the older stuff as we get time or modify those article?
---[[User:Sardisson|sardisson]] 04:27, 29 Apr 2005 (CDT)
-Good question.  Having worked on a Gentoo wiki or too, i have to say I was impressed with their [http://gentoo-wiki.com/Template_Listing templates] that give a unified look to the whole thing.  I think a style guide is not a bad idea.. here are some suggestions.
-# bold all filenames, menu items, application names, or any text string that appears on-screen.  this will facilitate readability tremendously, especially when following instructions.
-# put "pre" or "tt" tags around all typed Terminal commands (or use something similar to the gentoo templates.)
-# When describing procedures to be done that involve rooting through menus, list the menu items in the order they appear to the user.  for example:  "In the menu bar, under the '''File''' item, select '''Save'''."
-#  I think that writing directions out in English has several advantages over the "Item 1 > Item 2" method of indicating options/navigation.  For one thing, there is not much room for misunderstanding when you say "Make sure that the '''whatever''' radio button is selected."  or "Press the '''Ok''' button to continue."  Also, it is more accessible, I think, to a newbie user who may not be familiar with the 'item->item' shorthand.
-#  When issuing a series of instructions, I think it's always a good idea to express to the user what will happen next, ie "Press the '''Ok''' button.  A window labeled '''Preferences''' will appear."
-I'm sure I'll think of more style stuff... this is just a start..  I think the gentoo wiki templates really help unify the site and the navigation stuff facilitates site organization and helps you get around easily.
---[[User:Waldo|Waldo]] 04:46, 29 Apr 2005 (CDT)
-FWIW here is a [http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Update_to_GNOME_2.10 sample HOWTO] I wrote for gentoo.  This was the first one I wrote, and it was really easy w/the templates... see how it fits w/the entire site?
---[[User:Waldo|Waldo]] 05:25, 29 Apr 2005 (CDT)
-I'd really like to differentiate window/item titles from filenames and menus; otherwise, I've updated my list of style to match Waldo's text description.
---[[User:Sardisson|sardisson]] 22:34, 2 May 2005 (CDT)
-===Mac vs. Windows/*nix===
-Since the goal of Neo/J is making OOo more Mac-like, we should always prefer "Mac conventions" where possible; e.g., sending someone to the ''Activity Monitor'' utility to quit a hung process instead of <tt>ps -aux | grep blah</tt>, and using the '''Preferences...''' item in the '''NeoOffice''' menu rather than the Windows-like '''Tools''' menu, '''Options''' item.
-If something can't be done (or can't be done as easily) without firing up the ''Terminal'', fine, but let's prefer Mac-friendly instructions.  This also conforms with Waldo's points 3-6 above.
---[[User:Sardisson|sardisson]] 04:51, 14 Jul 2005 (CDT)
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