http://sbp.teledyn.com/node/19 Comments for "Composing a Story for the SBP" en http://sbp.teledyn.com/node/19#comment-79 <p>Leave it to the techies to make a confusing thing even more confusing -- this software we are using has now _enhanced_ the Textile support by offering no less than _three_ different flavours! </p> <p>* when you select 'none' you really get the old method where the textile rules were applied to the entire story, title and all, and that sometimes caused problems, plus it just wasn't very efficient and as such it isn't recommended -- the default on the SBP is the 1.0 version.<br /> * 1.0 Textile is pretty much what you expect if you use an email program or a chat program that recognizes little text format rules like putting a word between _underscores_ or doing these bullet marks by having an asterix in column one.<br /> * 2.1b Textile just seems crazy -- for the life of me, I don't notice any difference, and what I do notice is that all the places where Textile 1.0 is broken (such as URL links that end in digits) the same holds true for Textile 2.1b</p> <p>Anyway, don't let it discourage you -- you don't need to know _any_ of this so long as you just write, leave blank lines between paragraphs and really, _who cares if you use emphasis or not?_</p> <div class="signature">garym: <a href="http://www.teledyn.com">ict evangelist</a> - <a href="http://www.teledyn.com/mt/justus/" title="Just Us">musician</a> - <a href="http://www.teledyn.com/mt/" title="Have blog, will travel">whatever</a></div> Thu, 22 Apr 2004 01:11:38 -0400 garym comment 79 at http://sbp.teledyn.com http://sbp.teledyn.com/node/19 <p>Writing for the Peninsular is open to anyone with an idea for a story, and your story can be a review, it can be news, thoughts, ideas, comments, poetry or prose, it's up to you. Our philosophy is that it will all sort itself out in the long run and we're mostly interested to see what happens when people tell their own stories.</p> <p>But the technology, now that's a different issue. Authoring webpages frightens most people because they just don't want to get it wrong, and if you've ever tried to make a webpage, you know what can happen if you forget to close an <em>emphasis</em> tag or leave off the end of a table column. It's not a pretty sight.</p> <h4>welcome to Textile</h4> <p><a href="http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/license.html">Textile</a> is Dean Allen's simple text-to-HTML converter, and by using Textile on all our stories, the Peninsular avoids the techie HTML issue entirely. Textile uses a common set of formatting rules that are natural and easy to remember, and best of all, harmless. </p> <p>We know most of these codes already, we use them all the time in our email messages. For example, an underscore before or after a word is <em>emphasis</em> and two underscores before and after do the <i>underlined</i>.</p> <ul> <li>an asterix in the first column is a bullet point</li> <li>with the bullet text on the rest of the line</li> </ul> <p>You can also do super and sub script, <del>strikeout</del> and inserts, teletype, <cite>citation</cite> and <strong>strong</strong> text.</p> <p>textile1 </p> http://sbp.teledyn.com/node/19#comments HOWTO Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:19:03 -0400 garym 19 at http://sbp.teledyn.com