User:Spinningspark/How to do cool stuff

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1 talk
2 Categories
3 Locator Maps
4 Formulae
5 How to do stuff: part 106
6 Edit help: How to put paragraphs within a single bulleted item?
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is this were you write it?

I like to keep conversations together. If you post on my Talk page, that is where I will answer you, so keep me on your watchlist if you want to see the reply.

If I post on your Talk page, I will likewise watch for your reply. If you use that other silly system and insist on posting to my Talkpage instead, we can still cope, I am not obsessive about it.

Not substed,

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[edit] Categories

Don't CAT the Sandbox!!!!

[[Category:Puzzles]]

To make a link to a category without categorising the page
[[:Category:Automotive technologies]]

To force a sort order
[[Category:Mechanical puzzles|Puzzles, Mechanical]]

To force to top of list (Space is lower in ASCII)
[[Category:Rubik's Cube| ]]

[edit] Locator Maps

Locator template (example):

[edit] Formulae

$\frac{d}{dl}[(I+\bar{\sigma})\mathbf{v}] = grad \bar{\sigma} + \frac{\partial \mathfrak{A}}{\partial l} + [rot\mathfrak{A} \times \mathbf{v}]$

[edit] How to do stuff: part 106

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[edit] Edit help: How to put paragraphs within a single bulleted item?

This is an editing-style question. Some editors like bulleted lists for long lists with short descriptions. However, when the material for a bullet gets to be lengthy the bullet text becomes a huge tedious run-on, and the text can be hard to follow without paragraph breaks:

Item 1
Item 2
Item 3 with a really long boring block of text that really should be broken into two or more paragraphs but there's no apparant way to do it. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Item 4

I'd say the best option to use is partial HTML. Have a standard bulleted list, but use <p> tags on the long item. Example:

Item 1
Item 2
Item 3 with a really long boring block of text that really should be broken into two or more paragraphs but there's no apparant way to do it. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.

Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Item 4

This method keeps the bulleted list while allowing for paragraph breaks. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 02:40, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

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Bullet
- Bullet
  - Bullet

Number
1. Number
  1. Number

Indent

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text text^[1] text^[2] text^[3] text text text. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party. Now is ^[3] the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.^[4]

How do you make notes [3] and [4] link to the same reference? I am sure I have seen this done in some articles.

Yipee!!!! done it! That was hard work.

[edit] References

Another reference written in small references

[edit] Fonts

Can be used with <span>, <p> or <font> tags.

`style="font-style:italic;"`	Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
`style="font-style:normal;"`	Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
`style="font-weight:bold;"`	Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
`style="font-weight:normal;"`	Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party

`style="font-family:times;"`	Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
`style="font-family:times new roman;"`	Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
`style="font-family:courier;"`	Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
`style="font-family:monospace;"`	Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
`style="font-family:courier new;"`	Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
`style="font-family:script;"`	Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party

`style="font-style:italic;color:red;"`	Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party