!Notes for contributors

For a summary of the Twiki Formatting tags, see this Twiki Summary

Spec Formatting

When writing (passages that shall become) parts of the specification, please refer to the Style Guide so that all contributors use the same kind of syntax highlighting, making it easier for others to understand the written text.

Importing HTML

Since large portions of the Common Vocabulary comprise tables, it makes sense to copy these tables from the original HTML code and paste them into the respective wiki pages, where they can be worked on. Note: If you do that and click "Preview", the rendered HTML will look just as it's supposed to look, i.e. tables will be displayed as tables etc. But if you click "Save", the actual wiki page will only show unrendered HTML

Transforming HTML table syntax into Tikiwiki table syntax is not only a tedious job, the resulting code is also more difficult to handle and might not even look pretty. The solution is to use Tikiwiki's so-called "Plugin HTML", which causes HTML to be rendered correctly, and if the parameter "wiki" is set to 1, it even allows wiki syntax within the HTML table. Use it like this:

Note that to avoid security risks, Tikiwiki wants the plugin usage to be approved by a user from the "Editor" group. If you're not in that group, someone else has to approve that part of the page you edited. If you are in the Editor group, you can do it yourself - the box asking you to do so should become visible as soon as you have saved the page you edited.

Trusted users could also just ask me (Daniel) to be made Editors - I've already put a few users into the group.

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