Difference between revisions of "Lists"

Latest revision as of 09:56, 16 September 2013

Lists are used to better structure text that is unsuitable as a paragraph.

General rules

• Do not use lists if text is read easily as plain paragraphs.
• Use proper wikimarkup.
• Do not leave blank lines between items in a bulleted or numbered list unless there is a reason to do so, since this causes the Wiki software to interpret each item as beginning a new list.
• Use the same grammatical form for all elements in a list, and do not mix sentences and sentence fragments as elements.
• When the elements are complete sentences, each one is formatted with sentence case (its first letter is capitalized) and a final period (full stop).
• Use numbers rather than bullets only if:
  • a need to refer to the elements by number may arise;
  • the sequence of the items is critical; or
  • the numbering has some independent meaning.

Bulleted lists

== Title of list ==
* Example 1
* Example 2
* Example 3

In particular, do not double-space the lines of the list by leaving blank lines or extra HTML <br> tags after them, as in this example:

== Title of list ==
* Example 1

* Example 2

* Example 3

Numbered lists

Similar to the above, use a # symbol to obtain a numbered list:

== Title of list ==
# Example 1
# Example 2
# Example 3

Blank lines between items of an ordered list will not only cause the same problems as in the previous example, but will also restart the numbering at "1".

IMSMA Menu and Sub-menu

If you want to refer to menu and/or sub-menu within IMSMA^NG use this arrow → for example File menu → Export → Translations.