The Elsmar Cove Wiki Questions Discussion Thread

[Marc]

If you have any questions about making wiki edits, or any other aspect of the wiki, please ask them in this thread.

 

[Marc]

BTW - Anyone who can help fill out this page a bit, it will be appreciated: Wiki Markup and Formatting Help

 

[akehrer]

Math functions

I've been trying to get the math function formating to work but Mediawiki doesn't seem to be translating it. Is there some add-on that needs to be included?
Wikimedia article on math formulas
For example:
<math>\sqrt{1-e^2}</math>
Should produce this image:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/math/8/f/e/8fe612e4076e4860a10c82f224610a52.png

 

[Marc]

I'll have to check on what the math functions need to work. I think I have to have a program (LaTex?) installed on the server. I will look into it tonight and get back with you. Math functions are important, I know.

 

[Scott Catron]

BTW - Anyone who can help fill out this page a bit, it will be appreciated: Wiki Markup and Formatting Help

I've started - added pictures to the Image Tutorial.

 

[Howard Atkins]

I have started
http://elsmar.com/wiki/index.php/APQP
please can I have some feedback

 

[Marc]

Looks good to me.

 

[Howard Atkins]

Thanks just wanted some feed back before I went to far

 

[Sue]

Scott,

You suggest "You may want to keep this page open in a separate browser window for reference."

Is it possible to make a printer friendly page where sections are not cut off randomly?

Sue

 

[akehrer]

Hi Sue,
The wiki software has a style that gets applied when you print, but it doesn't seem to break up the document very well.
If you want you can add:

<br style="page-break-before:always;">​

to the text in strategic locations to force a break.

<span style="page-break-before:always;">&nbsp;</span>​

should also work and won't add a line to the displayed text.
See examples here:
http://elsmar.com/wiki/index.php/Wikipedia:Sandbox

Both methods worked for me in IE6 and Firefox 1.5.

Aaron