<!– uid=38ef530386634042d8f838271aa1371e347f0571 –> <!– time=1327607301 –> <!– ip=86.67.96.72 –> <!– content-type=text/html –> <!– name=An Keqiang –> <!– email=campumoru@gmail.com –> Overview
A WYSIWYG (âWhat You See Is What You Getâ) rich text editor is provided to type in the instruction, which means that you can apply things like bold face, lists, and so forth with simple controls and edit while viewing the actual formatted content rather than having to see the underlying codes. The top gray header of the editing box has a series of controls represented by icons which give short labels when you hover your cursor over the icon. It is used in the following VCP applications, all of which have their own editorial manuals in general:
We suggest that you prepare your text offline in a word processor, and then when complete, copy and paste it into the editor and add any extra formatting you need therein. You can always come back later and edit online. Please note that you can copy and paste directly from WORD into the WYSIWYG editor and it will preserve header styles, list styles, and formatting such as italic, bold, and underline. Therefore, if you know how to use styles, it is easiest and most efficient to apply the heading styles, styles for lists, and formatting such as bold, italic, and so forth in the Word document, and then copy and paste this into the WYSIWYG editor. If for some reason the text is garbled when you do this, delete all the text you pasted into the editor, hit the cancel button, and then open the editor again, copy the text again from the Word doc, and paste it into the editor. If the text is still garbled, then use the âpaste from Wordâ button (the icon is a blue W) on the toolbar in the WYSIWYG editor, and paste the text you copied from your Word file into the window that opens when you click the âpaste from Wordâ button. It will strip the entry of that code, but still try to preserve the formatting.
When editing descriptions, we suggest using the âfullscreen mode,â which devotes the entire browser window to the text entry box. You can toggle this mode off and on by clicking on the first button in the toolbar, which is a blue icon of a monitor. Please note that you cannot save in the fullscreen mode, and you will have to toggle it off in order to save. Once you are finished, or in order to save your work, click on the âCreateâ button at the bottom; once created, in the future you must click on the âUpdateâ button to save. Please note that there is no saving as you type, and so you are strongly advised to periodically click update and then open up for editing again if you are working on an entry online for an extended period of time. Otherwise you risk losing any unsaved work if something goes.
When writing general descriptions, please do your best to make them accessible to a broad audience by giving necessary context to your statements. Standard Editor Buttons The following is a full list of all buttons on the rich text editor toolbar apart from the VCP custom buttons in the order that they appear:
SOURCES
We are currently working at integrating VCP's bibliography program into the online essay composition system. In the meantime, if you want to have a sources section, please put the word “Sources” at the end of your text, and before any possible “Notes” section. Make it a header 1, and then list out the relevant sources. FORMATTING OF TEXT Quotation Marks and Apostrophes
Quotation marks and apostrophes should be âsmart quotesâ (that is, the curvy single and double quotes, such as â â â â) rather than straight single and double quotes (“ ') for all text.</span></p> Italics When giving italic words that are in parentheses, be careful not to italicize the parentheses themselves. Thus you would enter: (pinyin), not (pinyin). Endnotes/Footnotes
Unfortunately, there is no automated way to nicely create endnotes or footnotes. However if you want them, there is a manual way to do so.
Unfortunately, this system does not automatically resequence the footnote numbering, so that if you later add a footnote in the middle, then all your numbering will be off. At present, we can only offer two solutions to this:
Here are the instructions for manually inserting footnotes into your document:
If you are interested in an explanation of the HTML markup: the principle is that in an <a> tag, the value of the name attribute is an anchor point; when you create another <a> tag with the attribute href=”#+value of a name element in another <a> tag“, it creates a link to the <a> tag with the name element you specified after the #. Endnotes/Footnotes with Microsoft Word
When you paste text into the WYSIWYG editor from a Word document, you can paste in footnotes also. The editor will preserve the formatting, including the line at the bottom of the page that divides the body of the Word doc from the footnotes.
You then need to manually reformat the notes, following this procedure: