UniWiki:Manual of Style/Text formatting: Difference between revisions

:{{xt|Gellner accepts that knowledge must be knowledge {{em|of}} something.}}

{{em|Other, non-emphasis, uses of italics on Wikipedia should use <code><nowiki>''...''</nowiki></code> markup, not {{tag|em|o}}.}}

:{{em|Minor works}} (and any specifically-titled subdivisions of italicized major works) are given in double quotation marks. ''See below: [[#When not to use italics|When not to use italics]] for details.''

Like hatnotes, these parenthetical cross-references are set off by being italicized in their entirety, as [[UniWiki:Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid|UniWiki self-references]], and not part of the article content proper. Unlike some traditional reference works, the convention that has evolved on the UniWiki is {{em|not}} to individually italicize "see" or "see also". The UniWiki's own article titles are not put in quotation marks in such cross-references.

#Colors that are useful for identification and are {{em|appropriate, representative, and accessible}} may be used with discretion and common sense. In general, text color should not be anything other than black or white (excluding the standard colors of hyperlinks), and background colors should contrast the text color enough to make the template easily readable.

#An "appropriate, representative" color, when intended to identify with an organization's logo or branding, should use the most prominent {{em|accessible}} color in the logo. A representative color useful in a navbox is often already present in an article's infobox (if included).

Text formatting in citations should follow, consistently within an article, an established citation style or system. Options include any well-recognized citation system. Parameters should be accurate,<ref>Attempting to misuse citation template parameters to output data they are not designed for typically results in garbled [[COinS]] metadata output. For special cases, use a textual note after the end of the citation template and before the closing <code><nowiki>&lt;/ref&gt;</nowiki></code> tag.</ref> and should not be omitted if the formatting applied by the template is not in agreement with the text-formatting guidelines above.

{{anchor|PUA and RTL}}The only invisible characters in the editable text should be spaces and tabs. However, other invisible characters are often inserted inadvertently by pasting from a word processor. These can cause confusion with editors and handling problems with editing software. Any necessary invisible or [[Private Use Area]] (PUA) characters should be substituted with their decimal or hexadecimal code values (that is, as <code>&{{var|...}};</code>) so that they can be edited properly. A template, {{tl|PUA}}, is used to mark PUA characters; it has no effect on the text, but places the article in a tracking category.  {{crossref|(See the next sections for examples.)}}

 

 

 

 

If there is intervening LTR text, as in <code>خ abc<nowiki><ref></nowiki>{{var|citation details}}<nowiki></ref></nowiki></code>, a control character is not required. Spacing and most punctuation, however, are not defined as either LTR or RTL, so the direction of the text needs to be reset manually.

[[Private Use Area]] (PUA) characters are in three ranges of code points (<code>U+E000</code>–<code>U+F8FF</code> in the [[Plane (Unicode)#Basic Multilingual Plane|BMP]], and in [[Plane (Unicode)#Private Use Area planes|planes 15 and 16]]). PUA characters should normally be avoided, but they are sometimes used when they are found in common fonts, especially when the character itself is the topic of discussion.  

Where PUA characters cannot be replaced with non-PUA Unicode characters, they should be converted to their (hexa)decimal code values (that is, &#...; or &#x...;). However, whenever a PUA character has a Unicode equivalent, it should instead be replaced with that equivalent (Unicodified).  The Unicode may be obvious when text is copied and pasted from a document that uses the PUA for bullets or similar characters in Latin text, but similar things happen with punctuation and emoticons in documents using Japanese and other scripts, so an editor familiar with those scripts may be needed.  In Chinese documents it's not uncommon for the PUA to be used for characters that now have full Unicode support, due to poorer support for Chinese characters when those fonts were designed.  Such PUA characters, which are sometimes found on Wikipedia in references and footnotes, should not be substituted with their (hexa)decimal values, as that will lock in the illegible character. If you're moderately familiar with the script, an internet search of the surrounding text will often locate a fully Unicode version of the text which can be used to correct the Wikipedia article.  

Because browsers do not know which fonts to use for PUA characters, it is necessary for Wikipedia to specify them. {{tl|Unicode}} or {{tl|IPA}} formatting is sufficient in some cases.  Otherwise the fonts should be specified through html markup, as in the example below.  Note that if a font is not specified, or if none of the fonts are installed, readers will only see a numbered box in place of the PUA character.  

 

 

 

*[[WP:Advanced text formatting]]

*[[WP:Manual of Style/Capital letters]]

*[[WP:Manual of Style/Command-line examples]]

*[[WP:Manual of Style#Ligatures]]

*[[WP:Stop bolding everything]] (essay)