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-ELCode Help |
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-ELCode is a special set of tags to format an ELOG entry. It is similar to HMTL, but simpler. Tags are
-enclosed in braces [ and ] rather than < and >. Some tags change the formatting of the text like
-boldface, size and color, while other tags allow the embedding of URLs and images. The ELCode tags are
-similar to the BBCode tags, sometimes also
-referred as vB code.
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-Text formatting |
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- Following tags in ELCode allow the basic formatting of the text:
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-| [b]Hello[/b] | will become bold text like Hello |
-| [u]Hello[/u] | will become underlined text like Hello |
-| [i]Hello[/i] | will become italics text like Hello |
-[color=red]Hello[/color] or
-[color=#FF0000]Hello[/color] | will both become Hello. One can
-either speciy a well know color name like white, red, green, lightgreen, or a hexadecimal RGB value, where the first two
-digits (00 - FF) are for the red component, the second for the green and the third for the blue part. |
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-| [size=5]Hello[/size] | will become text like Hello.
-The size of the text in pixels ranges from 1 to 29. Here are some examples:
-size=1,
-size=2,
-size=3,
-size=4,
-size=5,
-size=6.
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-| [font=comic]Hello[/font] | will change the text font. Here are some examples:
-comic,
-courier,
-arial,
-tahoma,
-times,
-verdana
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-| [center]Hello[/center] | will put the text in the center |
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-Tags can be nested, such as
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-[size=5][color=red][b]Hello[/b][/color][/size]
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-which would produce
-Hello. Note that tags have to be nested correctly, things like
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-[b][color=red]This is wrong![/b][/color]
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-are incorrect, since the [b] tag is opened first and therefore must be closed last, after the
-closing [/color] tag, such as in
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-[b][color=red]This is correct[/color][/b]
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-Escape character |
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- Sometimes one does not want ELCode tags to be
-interpreted, like in a discussion forums where one wants to explain some tags
-for example. In order to avoid interpretation of tags, one puts a backslash "\"
-in front of the tag, like \[b] instead of [b].
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-Smileys |
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- Smileys, or Emoticons, are small graphical images which can be used to
-express some feeling using a short code, e.g. :) means happy. They are converted by elog automatically into
-small graphical images, such as
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-| :) |
- | :( |
- | ;) |
- | | :)) |
- | :D |
- | ?) |
- | | ;( |
- | :] |
- | :O |
- | | 8) | 8o |
- | X( |
- | | :P |
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- | Quoting |
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- There are two ways of quoting, with a reference and
-without:
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- | Fixed width text |
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- To output text with fixed width using a Courier-type font, enclose it in
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-[code]Hello[/code]
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-This might be useful in computer code listings or tables to increase the readability, like
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-Item Price Availability
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-Apples 0.50 1000
-Grapefruits 2.50 100
-Sun-dried Tomatos 12.50 20
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-versus
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-Item Price Availability
-==== ===== ============
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-Apples 0.50 1000
-Grapefruits 2.50 100
-Sun-dried Tomatos 12.50 20
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- | Lists |
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- An unordered list can be created with the tags [list][/list] like
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-[list]
-[*]Ocean
-[*]Forest
-[*]Desert
-[/list]
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-to produce
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-In an ordered list one can specify what is used before each item. To create a numbered list one
-can use [list=1][/list]:
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-[list=1]
-[*]Ocean
-[*]Forest
-[*]Desert
-[/list]
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-to produce
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-- Ocean
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- Forest
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- Desert
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-for an alphabetical list [list=a][/list] like
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-[list=a]
-[*]Ocean
-[*]Forest
-[*]Desert
-[/list]
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-to produce
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-- Ocean
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- Forest
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- Desert
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-Other possibilities are [list=A] for capital letters and [list=I] for Roman numbering.
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- | Creating links |
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- Hyperlinks or Uniform Resouce Locators (URLs) can be created in various ways:
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