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Contents 1 Identification 2 Starting a new Page 3 Page layout 3.1 Page sections 3.2 Lists 3.3 Styles 3.4 Tables 3.5 Punctuation 3.6 Miscellanous 4 Sorting pages in Categories 5 Editing a Page 6 Linking 7 More Information

[edit] Identification

To be able to create/edit pages, you need to create a login name on the Wiki. At this time, the login name is not linked with your MacMusic login name. Nevertheless, we strongly suggest you to use the same login name.

[edit] Starting a new Page

• In the Lexicon, a word is displayed in red, it means it has no definition yet:
  • Click on the red word,
  • You are automatically in edition mode, enter your definition,
  • Click on "Show Preview", you can still modify but it is not saved,
  • Click on "Save Page".

• Here is the easyest way to create a new page from nothing:
  • From any page, click the "edit" tab
  • type [[Page name]] ("Page name" is the name of the page you want to create)
  • click on "Show preview"
  • Page name will appear in red (as an undefined link). Whithout pressing "save page", click on this red link. It will bring you to the blank "Page name" page.
  • just fill this new page, and save.

• You can also create a page by typing an URL in your browser URL field. Just type

http://en.audiolexic.org/wiki/New_page 

then hit the return key

[edit] Page layout

To save time on corrections, write you article with an automatic spell checker on. For example in Safari: switch on Menu Edition/spelling/Verify spelling while typing. It won't do everything (like tenses) but at least the words not in the dictionary will be highlighted..

[edit] Page sections

• To make a section (like "Page layout") type ==Section Name== with "==" before and after the section name.
• To make a sub section (like "Page sections") ===Sub Section Name===, etc.
• You can also add an horizontal line with "----".
• A summary is automatically added at the beginning to articles with more than 3 sections.

[edit] Lists

• If you want to make a list like this one here:
  • type * at the line beginning,
  • retype * at the line beginning,
    • type ** at the line beginning,
      • etc.

• To indent with numbers :
  1. type # at the line beginning,
  2. retype #,
     1. type ##
     2. retype ##
        1. ###etc.

[edit] Styles

• BOLD = 3 ' before and after the word or sentence,

• SLANTED = 2 ' before and after the word or sentence,

[edit] Tables

• For a simple table like this:

your text

type:

{| border="1" 
|your text 
|}

• To add columns:

cell1

cell2

cell3

type:

{| border="1" 
| cell1 || cell2 || cell3
|}

• To add rows :

text 1a	text 2a
text 1b	text 2b

type

{| border="1"
| text 1a || text 2a
|-
| text 1b || text 2b
|}

• The first line defines the table parameters:

cell 1

cell 2

type

{| border="1" cellpadding='2' cellspacing='0'
| cell 1 || cell 2
|}

[edit] Punctuation

• Attach every punctuation sign to the word before, no spaces;
• 3 dots" are enough.......

[edit] Miscellanous

• To go to the next line  : add 2 line breaks

(If you have anything to add/correct, please helps yourself!)

[edit] Sorting pages in Categories

• Once you wrote your article, don't forget to put it in one of the categories, using the following syntax at the end of the article:

[[Category:Lexicon]].
[[Category:Audio]]
[[Category:Computers]]
[[Category:Instruments]]
[[Category:Solfege]]
[[Category:Synthesizers]]

Always put the [[Category:Lexicon]] first, then add secondary categories, sorted, one per line,

• Once saved, your page will "automagically" appears in the relevant categories indexes.

[edit] Editing a Page

To edit a page, just use the "edit" tab (on top)

• add your corrections
• then save using the "save page" button

[edit] Linking

• To create a link, type: [[name of the destination page]]:
  • if the destination page exists (with exactly the same name), a blue link will be shown during preview
  • if the destination page doesn't exist, you will see a red link

• To get a link title different from the link itself, use the following syntax: [[link name|link title]]. Notice the "|" between the link and the title.
  • The "link name" is the item you want to link to (it is a word wich is/will be defined), the "link title" is the word appearing in you article which will point to the "link name".
  • To type a "|", type Option+Shift+L

[edit] More Information

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• Editor Handbook : how to create/edit pages
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