Wiki FAQ: sketch of new formatting

Robert Brimhall rbrimhall at gmail.com
Thu Oct 21 00:40:59 UTC 2004


Looks good... much easier to navigate IMO.

Robert


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:59:00 -0500, Martin Maney <ubuntu at two14.net> wrote:
> http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/MartinManey has a snapshot of the FAQ page
> (with the top matter removed - that will need some rework too) in an
> alternate formatting.  I'm not really keen about using the h4 markup,
> but when I started this I thought I'd be keeping the existing h3 stuff,
> and wanted to have the questions subordinate to them...
> 
> I think I mucked up some formatting in a few complicated sections
> moving it back and forth to a real editor, but despite those oopses on
> my part I believe this format makes it easier to have non-simple
> strusture in the answers.  If no one thinks this is just a bad idea,
> I'll take a crack at redoing the real FAQ page in a day or two, if
> someone else doesn't think it's so much better they beat me to it.  :-)
> 
> You can get carried away with [[TableOfContents]], but it works very
> well for FAQs and some other things.
> 
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