compose tips

• Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd>

  This site allows HTML content. While learning all of HTML may feel intimidating, learning how to use a very small number of the most basic HTML "tags" is very easy. This table provides examples for each tag that is enabled on this site.

  For more information see W3C's HTML Specifications or use your favorite search engine to find other sites that explain HTML.

  Tag Description	You Type	You Get
  Anchors are used to make links to other pages.	<a href="http://ldap.namesatnames.co.uk">LDAP Directory Technology Review</a>	LDAP Directory Technology Review
  Emphasized	<em>Emphasized</em>	Emphasized
  Strong	<strong>Strong</strong>	Strong
  Cited	<cite>Cited</cite>	Cited
  Coded text used to show programming source code	<code>Coded</code>	Coded
  Unordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item	<ul> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ul>	First item Second item
  Ordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item	<ol> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ol>	First item Second item
  Definition lists are similar to other HTML lists. <dl> begins the definition list, <dt> begins the definition term and <dd> begins the definition description.	<dl> <dt>First term</dt> <dd>First definition</dd> <dt>Second term</dt> <dd>Second definition</dd> </dl>	First term First definition Second term Second definition

  Most unusual characters can be directly entered without any problems.

  If you do encounter problems, try using HTML character entities. A common example looks like &amp; for an ampersand & character. For a full list of entities see HTML's entities page. Some of the available characters include:

  Character Description	You Type	You Get
  Ampersand	&	&
  Greater than	>	>
  Less than	&lt;	<
  Quotation mark	&quot;	"

• Lines and paragraphs are automatically recognized. The <br /> line break, <p> paragraph and </p> close paragraph tags are inserted automatically. If paragraphs are not recognized simply add a couple blank lines.

• Context Links Help

  The contextlinks module allows you to easily create links to context-related material using a simple markup syntax. The links are indicated by either linking the text itself or by inserting a specific string or icon that links to the related information.

  Site administrators can define different "classes" of context links. Each class can have a specific icon or string that is used for all instances of that class. Additionally, administrators define a default class which will be used if no class is specified.

  The syntax to insert context links is as follows:

  [?class:URL link text]
  or, to use the default class,
  [?:URL link text]

  Notes:

  • The URL can be relative (some/link), linking to information on the same site, or fully-qualified (http://some.site/), linking to information on another site.
  • The URL can optionally be preceded with a ^ (caret) to force the link to open in a new window or a ` (backtick) to force the link to open in the current window (if the class defaults to opening in a new window).
  • To include a right bracket in the URL or text of a context link, it must be "escaped" by preceding it with a backslash (\]). Likewise, to use a backslash it must be escaped also (\\).

  The table below shows examples of all of the classes currently defined on this site.

  class	new window	input	output
  external *default*	Yes	An [?external:filter/tips example external] link. A [?:filter/tips link] using the default class.	An example external link. A link using the default class.
  info	No	An [?info:filter/tips example info] link.	An example info link.
  info-text	No	An [?info-text:filter/tips example info-text] link.	An example info-text [info] link.
  link	No	An [?link:filter/tips example link] link.	An example link link.
  note	No	An [?note:filter/tips example note] link.	An example note link.
  note-text	No	An [?note-text:filter/tips example note-text] link.	An example note-text [note] link.
  person	No	An [?person:filter/tips example person] link.	An example person link.
  person-text	No	An [?person-text:filter/tips example person-text] link.	An example person-text [person] link.
  question	No	An [?question:filter/tips example question] link.	An example question link.
  question-text	No	An [?question-text:filter/tips example question-text] link.	An example question-text [?] link.
  warning	No	An [?warning:filter/tips example warning] link.	An example warning link.
  warning-text	No	An [?warning-text:filter/tips example warning-text] link.	An example warning-text [warning] link.

• Web and e-mail addresses are automatically converted into links.