Xenharmonic Wiki:Article guidelines: Difference between revisions
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Same principle applies inside and outside templates, with the possible exception of whitespaces |
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Within articles, use from H2 (<code>== Title ==</code>) for the highest level down to H6 (<code>====== sub sub sub sub heading ======</code>), but try to avoid too many levels of sub sections. To go down to H4 will often be enough, most articles will only use H2 levels. | Within articles, use from H2 (<code>== Title ==</code>) for the highest level down to H6 (<code>====== sub sub sub sub heading ======</code>), but try to avoid too many levels of sub sections. To go down to H4 will often be enough, most articles will only use H2 levels. | ||
== Use of escape templates == | == Use of escape templates or HTML codes == | ||
Certain characters and character sequences have special meanings in Wiki markup, and sometimes need to be escaped using escape templates. However, this should generally be done only as a last resort | Certain characters and character sequences have special meanings in Wiki markup, and sometimes need to be escaped using escape templates or {{w|character encodings in HTML|HTML codes}}. However, this should generally be done only as a last resort since they often make the wiki text difficult to read and edit. | ||
'''Avoid (generally)''' | '''Avoid (generally)''' | ||
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</pre> | </pre> | ||
Witespaces (except for the ordinary space) are encouraged to be written in HTML codes because it is otherwise hard to know what they are. If HTML codes are used, names are preferred to Unicode code points, and if code points have to be used, hex is preferred to decimal because code points are usually shown in hex. | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[Help: | * [[Help: Help]] | ||
* [[Help:Editing]] | * [[Help: Editing]] | ||
[[Category:Xenharmonic Wiki]] | [[Category:Xenharmonic Wiki]] | ||
[[Category:Help]] | [[Category:Help]] | ||
[[Category:todo:expand]] | [[Category:todo:expand]] | ||