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Have added to HowTo a description for how to label equations
In the course of this I restructured the section “How to make links to subsections of a page” by giving it a few descriptively-titled subsections.
have added to HowTo right after the mentioning of the CodeCogs page also a link to the (new?) QuickLatex tool.
I was reminded of some things that I had wanted to add to the HowTo page, and now I finally got around to doing so:
I added a new section How to organize and write content with new subsections:
I have also added a subsection:
Oh, and now I have spotted and removed the subsection “How to ask questions”. I think we all agree that this initial idea we once had didn’t work out and should be abandoned, reproduced below just for the record:
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If you want to make a comment or question about a page without changing its main content, then edit the page and put your comment or question in a query block as shown in this example:
+-- {: .query}
How do I ask a question?
=--
which produces
+– {: .query} How do I ask a question? =–
Note that a query block should be less permanent than the rest of the page; once your comment is addressed or your question is answered, you can probably remove your query block.
If you want to ask a question of a specific person, then you can place a query block on their user page (which is just a page whose title is their name). You should be able to find all user pages here.
If your comment or question is more general than a specific page or person, then try the n-Forum. Previous discussions have been on the General Discussion page and on an entry at the n-Cafe. These previous discussions should not be added to but you may find your question answered there. Important answers are being migrated to this How To and the FAQ. As this is a Wiki, if you find an answer to your question and feel it should be added to one of those then do so.
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That text shouldn't be removed entirely; it's still a formatting feature that's sometimes useful and should be documented.
The section has been edited bit by bit over the years as we've pulled away from heavy use of query boxes. It ought to start by pointing people to the Forum (instead of ending with this as it last did) and then show how to make a query box if people want to.
I will try to write a section like that now. … Done.
I have added a section: How to… upload files.
under HowTo#instiki_howto changed the currently broken external link on “Add metadata to your markup” from http://maruku.rubyforge.org/proposal.html to https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/maruku/proposal.html
I don’t know what to do about the broken link on “Make tables, footnotes, etc” http://maruku.rubyforge.org/maruku.html#extra
I mentioned that there was an invalid equation on that page on another thread.
In order to improve the order-by-relevance of the material, I moved up the section How to make links to subsections
I see now that this has a little bit of overlap with the new section on how to put references that I just added, but it’s maybe still good to have the latter
This page is great, and I will definitely reference it in the future, but after about a year or two of editing here, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it.
I think it would be very nice if the editing page always included a link to this page right at the top. The edit page has some nice markdown tips, but this page has stuff like table of contents and theorem environments that are less common.
I think it would be very nice if the editing page always included a link to this page right at the top.
That sounds indeed like a good idea: include a pointer to HowTo in the line on top of each nLab entry.
We will have to bring this to the attention of Richard. Probably he will see this here. If not, let’s remember to contact him about it.
I noticed that the text under Software requirements was badly outdated.
I rewrote a bit, to the best of my knowledge, in particular I mentioned MathJax (which wasn’t around yet when that section was last edited!) But somebody more expert should please check, especially the following points:
is installing STIX fonts still something one needs to do?
what’s the latest on Opera supporting MathML? It said something about the “recent” version, but that will be long outdated now.
Is it still true that IE (or any other browser) works with or needs the MathPlayer plugin? My impression is that this is a thing of the past?
Anyway, somebody who knows about this might want to start this section completely from scratch, with up-to-date information.
I don’t think STIX fonts are needed… at least, I haven’t installed them on my new computer and things still look fine.
just downloaded the latest Opera-version to check. But it calls MathJax instead of rendering MathML natively. So I removed that outdated line regarding Opera that we had. Also removed the statement about IE needing MathPlayer.
So now it just says that Firefox is currently the only browser with native MathML support, the rest of the crowd falls back to MathJax.
Which is a pity. Since its last update Firefox has become ridiculous, tending to take several seconds for opening new windows.
(I followed the instructions that are offered online for how to work around this most unbelievable issue, but first of all I don’t actually want to clear my browsing history, as I am being advised, and it didn’t actually help for more than half an hour anyway. )
The howto still mentions the Stylish plugin. However, there have been problems with it spying on people. There is a replacement. As I’m not using the plugin myself, I won’t change the howto, but people using it (Mike?) may want to have a look.
I’ve never used Stylish.
Bas, just add the very information that you just mentioned to the HowTo, then anyone using that plugin can check for themselves.
At How to make links to subsections, some of the wikilinks inside verbatim displays are getting parsed when they shouldn’t be.
Excellent. Thank you!
I have further specified the pointer to the Forum to a pointer to this particular thread here, to free the user of the need to create a new thread, come up with a decent thread title etc.
Good idea, thanks very much!
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