Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of 0.12/TracWiki

Timestamp:

Mar 26, 2010, 6:13:20 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

mark.m.mcmahon@…

Comment:

Reference other places where WikiFormatting can be used; Mention the editing toolbar; linkify the Style Guide Root

0.12/TracWiki

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 [[TracGuideToc]]
 
-Trac has a built-in wiki engine, used for text and documentation throughout the system. WikiFormatting is used in [wiki:TitleIndex wiki pages], [wiki:TracTickets tickets] and [wiki:TracChangeset check-in log messages].  This allows for formatted text and hyperlinks in and between all Trac modules.
+Trac has a built-in wiki engine, used for text and documentation throughout the system. WikiFormatting is used in [wiki:TitleIndex wiki pages], [wiki:TracTickets tickets], [wiki:TracChangeset check-in log messages], [wiki:TracRoadmap milestone] and [wiki:TracReports report] descriptions.  It allows for formatted text and hyperlinks in and between all Trac modules.
 
 Editing wiki text is easy, using any web browser and a simple [WikiFormatting formatting system], rather than more complex markup languages like HTML.  The reasoning behind its design is that HTML, with its large collection of nestable tags, is too complicated to allow fast-paced editing, and distracts from the actual content of the pages. Note though that Trac also supports [WikiHtml HTML], [WikiRestructuredText reStructuredText] and [http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/ Textile] as alternative markup formats.
 
-The main goal of the wiki is to make editing text easier and ''encourage'' people to contribute and annotate text content for a project.
+The main goal of the wiki is to make editing text easier and ''encourage'' people to contribute and annotate text content for a project. Trac also provides a simple toolbar to make formatting text even easier.
 
 The wiki itself does not enforce any structure, but rather resembles a stack of empty sheets of paper, where you can organize information and documentation as you see fit, and later reorganize if necessary. 
 As contributing to a wiki is essentially building an hypertext, 
 general advice regarding HTML authoring apply here as well.
-For example, the ''Style Guide for online hypertext'' explains how to think about the
+For example, the ''[http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style Style Guide for online hypertext]'' explains how to think about the
 [http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/Structure.html Overall structure of a work] 
 and how to organize information [http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/WithinDocument.html Within each document]. One of the most important is “make your HTML page such that you can read it even if you don't follow any links.”