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User Documentation Style Guide
This page is a sample style guide for creating user documentation. This is part of UNPLANNED_USER_DOC_STRUCTURE_R0..
Organization
- Each numbered item in the user documentation structure (UNPLANNED_USER_DOC_STRUCTURE/Outline) will get its own page in the wiki.
- Each release will have its own documentation directory in the wiki: e.g. for iteration 3, the user documentation is at ITERATION_03/Release/UserDocumentation.
- Names for pages in the wiki will be in the form "xx_SectionTitle"; 'xx' is the number of the section in the outline. Subsections are subdirectories. Thus we have, for example, ITERATION_03/Release/UserDocumentation/02_WorkingWithSophie/02_HalosAndHUDs, which is section 2.2. Working with Sophie: halos and HUDs. Numbers follow the outline at UNPLANNED_USER_DOC_STRUCTURE/Outline.
- When Sophie Author/Sophie Reader/Sophie Server are separated into distinct sections, the names of the pages will be in the form "!SophieAuthorDocumentation_1_WorkingWithSophie", with the prefixes being "!SophieAuthorDocumentation_", "!SophieReaderDocumentation_", and "!SophieServerDocumentation_".
- Each page begins with a [[BackLinksMenu]] command and ends with a [[TitleIndex(xxx)]] where 'xxx' is the page's path in the wiki.
Images
- Images go in subversion at trunk/sophie2-platform/doc/user_doc_images/ . Images are structured by release; UNPLANNED_USER_DOC_SAMPLE contains images for the documentation sample, RELEASE_3 contains images added for RELEASE_3. Each new release will get a new subdirectory.
- Images should not be more than 800 pixels wide.
Conventions
- Use "Sophie 2" rather than "Sophie2": we want to emphasize continuity from Sophie 1 to Sophie 2. "Sophie 2.0" is also acceptable.
- It is not necessary to always say "Sophie 2" or "Sophie 2.0"; simply "Sophie" is fine.
Extensibility
- More rules will be added to this list as they are needed and created.