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__Intro__ Vanilla (see *vanilla-info* for comments from developer) uses "snips" to store content in vanilla-space. These snip can be linked to or included in a page. Guidance on *naming-snips* is to use meaningful words with hyphens between the words (e.g. *home-page*). When you create a page the page name will be created from the title you give it. __Creating links__ Use asterisks to denote a link. E.g. a link to "test-snip" snip is done like this: \*test-snip\*, and you can also write \*Test Snip\* to link to the same page. Links to urls can be done similarly: \*http://www.lutesoc.co.uk\*. You can change the display text of a link by separating it with a vertical bar - e.g. \*home-page|Go to the home page\* results in *home-page|Go to the home page*. Links to email addresses are done similarly - e.g. \*mailto:someuser@example.com\* or \*someuser@example.com\*. The links that are created in this way are obscured to prevent them being harvested for spam, but can be clicked on by normal users. __Including content__ Use curly braces to include other content E.g. the content from "*news*" is included as follows: \{news\}, which displays as follows: <table align=center style="width:70%;border: 1px solid #a0a0a0"><tr><td bgcolor=#f0f0d0>{news}</td></tr></table> (__N.B.__the background colour has been changed so you can more easily see the scope of the included content). When content is included in this way you will see a ! at the bottom right of the content. If you click on this it will allow you to directly edit the included content. __Formatting rules__ The text markup language has in-built support for limited formatting. - \__Double underlines\__ are expanded as __bold__ - HTML tags can be inserted into the text for fomatting if desired - "space-hyphen" rendered as bullets. Bullet collections should be preceded and followed by a blank line - bold text on a line on its own becomes heading 3 To insert special characters, simply escape them with the backslash character: - to insert "\*" type "\\*" - to insert "\{" type "\\{" - to insert "\}" type "\\}" - to insert "\__" type "\\__" - to insert "\>" type "\\>" - to insert "\<" type "\\<" __Including real HTML__ You can mix HTML in your content if you wish. To include HTML without having extra paragraphs put in for every new line, simply ensure the html content is wrapped in \<html\>...\</html\>. For example, simply paste in the full html of a valid HTML page. __Other comments__ - Dont use characters that are special to HTML like >, <, &, + in the title - vanilla doesn't seem to like it. - Once you've created a snip you can't delete it without coming out of vanilla. You can contact the *webmaster* if you are desperate. - renaming a snip causes a copy to be made - the original is preserved. __Keyboard shortcuts__ Hold down Alt-shift plus one of the following keys to invoke the following, commonly used functions: - e : edit - f : find - n : new - h : home - s : save __Advanced__ There is scope for writing specialist scripts and running them to generate content (so-called "dyna-snips"). For example the complete listing of all existing snips (see *space-list* page) is done this way. Send requests to *webmaster*
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