Help:Editing

1 General

A reference about all the technical stuff for the Wiki can be found here: Editor's help of MediaWiki

A short overview for the impatient is given at the Editing overview

Policy and conventions are the 'house rules' of this Wiki.

2 Extensions

These are the extensions installed on this Wiki

2.1 Typesetting equations LaTeX-style

This is a standard feature of the MediaWiki: in order to enter an equation like $E = m c^2$ into the text you simply put math-tags around it:

<math>E = m c^2</math>

2.2 Having nice-looking source codes

The Geshi Syntax Highlighting extension (which is based on Geshi) allows you to typeset C++ (and other languages) in a more colorful way:

 
#include <iostream>
 
main() {
    std::cout << "Hello, Wiki!\n";
}

was produced by

<cpp>
#include <iostream>

main() {
    std::cout << "Hello, Wiki!\n";
}
</cpp>

For other languages use the correct tags (java, bash etc).

2.3 Citations

The cite extension allows you to add a linked, footnoted reference as in Wikipedia. Add the reference info in the text with:

C++ was created by Bjarne Stroustrup <ref>Stroustrup, B, ''The C++ Programming Language'', Addison-Wesley, pp 328, 1986</ref> in order to overcome perceived limitations of C.

This appears as

C++ was created by Bjarne Stroustrup in order to overcome perceived limitations of C.

then create a Reference section at the bottom of the page and add the tag

==References==

<references/>

Voila! The backend php script will fill out and format your reference list.

3 Useful templates

Templates are enclosed in double brackets: {{demoTemplate}}.

3.1 Decorative Template

The template {{OpenFOAM}} adds a link to the OpenFOAM-homepage.

3.2 Version Templates

This helps to group pages by the versions/forks/variants of OpenFOAM for which they are valid.

Version information starts with the template {{VersionInfo}} followed by the version templates {{Version1.x}} for which this page is valid. For instance

{{VersionInfo}}{{Version1.0}}{{Version1.2}}{{Version1.6}} {{Version1.4-dev}} {{Version1.6-ext}} {{Version3.0-ext}} {{versionOpenFOAMFoundationDev}}

is displayed as

Valid versions:

meaning that information on this page is valid for:

• OpenFOAM 1.0, 1.2, 1.6, 2.3;
• foam-extend's OpenFOAM 1.4-dev, OpenFOAM 1.6-ext and foam-extend 3.0;
• OpenFOAM development version that is provided by the OpenFOAM Foundation.

... but for some strange reason not for 1.1, 1.3 to 1.5, 1.5-dev and so on (or the status is unknown)

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--Bgschaid 22:06, 31 May 2005 (CEST)