GUI for documentation, good or bad?

Marc Kaplan mk at technomensch.net
Thu Oct 23 00:09:32 UTC 2008


Little Girl wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> shirish wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
>
>   
>> The results or the result given would be so much nicer if it was in
>> some sort of [CODE] matter [CODE] like we use in ubuntuforums or
>> like shown in http://www.htmldog.com/reference/htmltags/code/
>>     
>  
>   
>> This way the whole thing would be nicer and clearer. A
>>     
>
> They're actually very similar. It's just a different language. Both
> use opening and closing tags. It's just that in the MoinMoin language,
> sometimes closing tags are identical to opening tags. Examples:
>
> <h1>This is an HTML level one header</h1>
>
> = This is a MoinMoin level one header =
>
> <h2>This is an HTML level two header.</h2>
>
> == This is a MoinMoin level two header ==
>
> <code>This is HTML code.</code>
>
> {{{This is MoinMoin code.}}}
>
> <b>This is HTML bold text</b>
>
> '''This is MoinMoin bold text.'''
>
> <i>This is HTML italic text.</i>
>
> ''This is MoinMoin italic text.''
>
> <a href="http://www.google.com">This is an HTML labeled link.</a>
>
> [http://www.google.com|This is a MoinMoin labeled link.]
>
> Six of one, half a dozen of the other... (:
>
> I'm thinking maybe a cheat sheet for people who know HTML and would
> like to know the MoinMoin equivalents could be useful.
>
>   

That might not be a bad idea.  In fact, that might be a great idea on 
how to clean up:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiGuide/Formatting

What do you think?  Do you want to give it a go, or want me to?  What 
are you working on at the moment?

Marc Kaplan
Documentation Team




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