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==Lists== | ==Lists== | ||
The edit toolbar does not have a button for making lists. | The [[Clicklaw Wikibooks Style Guide]] calls for the use of ''bulleted'' lists to break up serial information where the order is not important, and ''numbered'' lists where steps or some other sequence is important to understand the information. | ||
The edit toolbar does not have a button for making lists. They are simple to create, however. Authorities on plain language writing tend to agree that lists generally make information easier to absorb. | |||
=== Making a list === | |||
Once you are logged in, and are in the Edit screen of the page you want to change: | |||
* '''Numbered lists''': Place each list item on its own line, and start each line with a pound symbol "<nowiki>#</nowiki>". Click "Show preview" to see the list. Notice that the numbered list automatically ends at the last line that you started with a pound symbol. | |||
* '''Bulleted list''': To make a list with bullets, follow the same steps as for a numbered list, but replace the pound symbol with an asterix. | |||
=== List examples === | |||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
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# Three | # Three | ||
|} | |} | ||
More complicated lists with sublists are achieved by adding an extra pound or asterix symbol beside items you want to appear as indented subordinate list, | More complicated lists with sublists are achieved by adding an extra pound or asterix symbol beside items you want to appear as indented subordinate list. Lists can include a subordinate list of another type, for example a numbered list can break off into a series of points in a bulleted list, or vice versa. | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
|- | |- | ||
! Description | |||
! This wiki code | ! This wiki code | ||
! Results in this display on the page | ! Results in this display on the page | ||
|- | |- | ||
| <tt># | | ''A numbered list with a subordinate list that is also numbered.'' | ||
<tt># | | <tt># Item one</tt><br /> | ||
<tt>## | <tt># Leads to item two:</tt><br /> | ||
<tt># | <tt>## Which itself has at least one sub-item</tt><br /> | ||
<tt>## And possibly two</tt><br /> | |||
<tt>## Or even three sub-items</tt><br /> | |||
<tt># Then back to the main numbered list and item three</tt> | |||
| | |||
# Item one | |||
# Leads to item two: | |||
## Which itself has at least one sub-item | |||
## And possibly two | |||
## Or even three sub-items | |||
# Then back to the main numbered list and item three | |||
|- | |||
| ''A mixed list. Numbered list with a subordinate bulleted list.'' | |||
| <tt># Item one</tt><br /> | |||
<tt># Leads to item two:</tt><br /> | |||
<tt>#* Which itself has at least one sub-item</tt><br /> | |||
<tt>#* And possibly two</tt><br /> | |||
<tt>#* Or even three sub-items which all need to be bullets</tt><br /> | |||
<tt># Then back to the main list, which continues numbered at item three</tt> | |||
| | |||
# Item one | |||
# Leads to item two: | |||
#* Which itself has at least one sub-item | |||
#* And possibly two | |||
#* Or even three sub-items which all need to be bullets | |||
# Then back to the main list, which continues numbered at item three | |||
|- | |||
| ''A bulleted list with a subordinate list of numbers, and a further subordinate list of bullets'' | |||
| <tt>* This point is simple.</tt><br /> | |||
<tt>* This point is complicated, and includes:</tt><br /> | |||
<tt>*# Item one</tt><br /> | |||
<tt>*# Item two, which is:</tt><br /> | |||
<tt>*#* 40% X,</tt><br /> | |||
<tt>*#* 35% Y, and</tt><br /> | |||
<tt>*#* 25% Z.</tt><br /> | |||
<tt>*# Item three</tt><br /> | |||
<tt>* This last point is simple again.</tt><br /> | |||
| | | | ||
# | * This point is simple. | ||
# | * This point is complicated, and includes: | ||
## | *# Item one | ||
# | *# Item two, which is: | ||
*#* 40% X, | |||
*#* 35% Y, and | |||
*#* 25% Z. | |||
*# Item three | |||
* This last point is simple again. | |||
|} | |} | ||
=== Note about updating resources in Legal Help for British Columbians === | === Note about updating resources in Legal Help for British Columbians === | ||
