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Administrivia Text Formatting Rules Discussion
A new markup for notes (very similar to hottips) has just been implemented. That should go on the page; I would do it myself, but I'm having trouble thinking of how to write it.
Also, should hottips be replaced with notes as we come across them? It seems like notes are able to do more — like potholes — but hottips are still valid and used. Thoughts?
Random question: do folders work in discussions?
EDIT: I tested on this post, and yeah, they do.
Question about a text formatting convention I've seen:
Why do I see alternate versions of characters written as "alt-description!character"? This most commonly appears in the Back To The Future page for characters from different times or alternate timelines (e.g. the younger George McFly from 1955 might be written as 1955!George). It doesn't seem to have any effect on the markup, so where did this convention come from?
There's something wrong with the folders on the Funny Moments page for Atop The Fourth Wall. Even though it is clearly formatted correctly, the actual folders won't appear, instead giving us the actual formatting at the top of the page, and a huge wall of text that cannot be shortened. Please help.
Hi, I want to make a video appear on the forum but I don't know how. Everytime I try I end up with a URL instead of the video. Can someone help?
I just noticed something:
Test/{{Trope}} gives Trope.
Test.{{Trope}} gives Test.Trope.
On the page proper, the first is blue, the second red. Neither page exists. And when I posted it here, both are red. What the heck?
OK, strikethrough's gone. Can we have a note in this page that it used to exist, but no longer does? I just spent maybe a half-hour trying to figure out the proper syntax, trying to figure out why it wasn't working, and looking through pages for examples, only to find out that it's been removed. For others in that boat, it would be considerate to leave a note of that kind of change, rather than trying to make it look as though it never existed.
Where's the info on text sizing and colors? Because neither one is working for me using the "old" formatting methods.
What happened to the strikethrough text formatting?
the striked text disappears.
[[ strike: the striked text disappears. ]]
About ~: There are several places where people have linked to All The President's Men as shown. I assume this is because it has an apostrophe in it. Only when you go to the All The President's Men page, the URL says
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitlemszpn5wu
I tried to fix it, but it redirected instead:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitlemszpn5wu?from=Main.AllThePresidentsMen
Can somebody help me out here? Seeing "Ptitlemszpn5wu" makes me think that something is still wrong or incomplete.
I tried to fix it, but it redirected instead:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitlemszpn5wu?from=Main.AllThePresidentsMen
Can somebody help me out here? Seeing "Ptitlemszpn5wu" makes me think that something is still wrong or incomplete.
I'd like to know how they implemented the formatting because it's the strangest thing I've seen. It's not HTML or CSS (and yes, I realize HTML can include CSS) so hell if I know.
I hope this will get someone's attention; There's some kind of folder problem over on Infinity Plus One Sword. I'm stumped. Somewhere along the line the folders on the page just stopped working, and I can't figure out what's wrong.
Never mind, figured it out. Line breaks are two slashes and a carriage return, with no spaces.
Question on link formatting:
On the Girl Genius page, I've noticed that every so often, someone will make a massive edit to un-capitalize words like "of" and "the" in every trope name that has them (i.e. changing every name like CrowningMomentOfAwesome or PlanetOfHats into {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}} or {{Planet of Hats}}, respectively). And every so often, there'll be another massive edit that turns all those links back into plain old Wiki Word links.
Is there a favored version? I haven't found a rule anywhere, and it can be annoying to scroll through big edits in the history page trying to pick out actual new additions from countless changes in capitalization.
the quote block example doesn't work... trying it in the sandbox. how do you actually quote?
Are monospaced fonts available? The old method does not work.
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Lines indented with one or more spaces (or tabs) are monospace font.
Since new edits will currently clobber the big table of characters (the table comes from older pmwiki software docs, but is reapportioned for our own use thanks to a little spin I added...), you can copy and paste from this text file to get it back, if you notice it’s wrong and someone else hasn’t gotten to it yet.
http://members.cox.net/brpxqzme/tableofchars.txt
We were talking about this over in the discussion of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Is there a preferred method of alphabetical order for listing tropes in TV show pages?
As a former library science student, I favor the word-by-word method used in libraries, in which shorter words come before longer words starting with the same letters—but there's also a letter-by-letter method, in which spaces are ignored and the words are alphabetized by letters only.
Whichever it is, it would be nice if it were stated somewhere clearly. I can't seem to find anything about it in a site search.