Guidelines for Writing this Manual

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Using Bluefish 2 to edit Bluefish 2 Manual

See: Bluefish mediawiki editor. Mediawiki snippets have snippets for Bluefish Manual: note, tip, important, warning, clear, framed image.

Templates

Top and bottom menus

Bluefish Wiki Manual use 2 templates for navigation: Man2top and Man2bottom.
They do not usually need to be edited. However, since their output was scrambled up, they are, for now, disabled.

Template:Man2top Template:Man2bottom

Man2top and Man2bottom templates do not usually need to be edited. Exceptions:

When you read a page, and make any necessary corrections so that this page conforms to Bluefish version 2.2.12, thank you for changing the status, from d (draft) to u (update). ie: |st=d by |st=u.

After a Bluefish version update, you have to modify the rev parameter.

Tips and Notes Templates

Bluefish Wiki Manual uses templates for:

note:	tip:	important:	warning:
this is a note.	this is a tip.	this is important!	this is a warning!

examples

{{note|text=mytext here, use <br /> to break lines.}}	mytext here, use <br /> to break lines.
{{warning|text=mytext here, use <br /> to break lines.}}	mytext here, use <br /> to break lines.
{{Tip|text=mytext here, use <br /> to break lines.}}	mytext here, use <br /> to break lines.
{{Important|text=mytext here, use <br /> to break lines.}}	mytext here, use <br /> to break lines.

use Bluefish mediawiki snippets to edit this manual... the task will be easier!

Clear Template

You can write {{clear}} as a shortcut of <br style="clear:both" />
The next element will be moved below all floating boxes of earlier elements.

Top Template

You can write {{top}} to create a link to the top of the page:

Toc Template

You can write {{toc}} to create a floating right ToC

Images

see mediawiki manual: Images Syntax
note: to add in snippets and bflang2

In the manual images are framed with a title:

One image

For one large image, with text on top and/or bottom:

[[File:Man2_snippet_insert_dialog.png|none|frame|snippet insert dialog]]

For a small image floating left with text on the right:

[[File:Man2 create snippet4.png|left|frame|lorem ipsum]]
lorem ipsum
{{clear}}

More images

In this case we use a table:

{|
|valign="bottom" align="center"|[[File:Man2 create snippet.png|none|frame|lorem ipsum]]
|valign="bottom" align="center"|[[File:Man2 create snippet2.png|none|frame|lorem ipsum]]
|valign="bottom" align="center"|[[File:Man2 create snippet3.png|none|frame|lorem ipsum]]
|}