Help:Editing

This ought to be more about how to use the wiki markup than about style guidelines but those ought to be mentioned via link.

Typographic Conventions

The PC-BSD Handbook uses the following typographic conventions:

bold text: represents a command written at the command line. In usage examples, the font is changed with any command output displayed in unbolded text.

italic text: used to represent device names or file name paths.

bold italic text: used to emphasize an important point.

Language usage and word choice

To facilitate future translations avoid the following:

Contractions

in place of don't, can't or won't use do not, cannot, or will not.

Avoid brand names

use web search instead of Google search

Special Characters

Traversal of menus/windows

use an arrow (➜) as in the example:

PC-BSD control panel ➜ System manager ➜ System packages tab

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Reference

Punctuation apostrophe ( ’ ' ) brackets ( [ ], ( ), { }, ⟨ ⟩ ) colon ( : ) comma ( , ) dash ( ‒, –, —, ― ) ellipsis ( …, ..., . . . ) exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop/period ( . ) guillemets ( « » ) hyphen ( ‐ ) hyphen-minus ( - ) question mark ( ? ) quotation marks ( ‘ ’, “ ”, ' ', " " ) semicolon ( ; ) slash/stroke ( / ) solidus ( ⁄ )

Word dividers space ( ) ( ) ( ) (␠) (␢) (␣) interpunct ( · ) General typography ampersand ( & ) at sign ( @ ) asterisk ( * ) backslash ( \ ) bullet ( • ) caret ( ^ ) dagger ( †, ‡ ) degree ( ° ) ditto mark ( 〃 ) inverted exclamation mark ( ¡ ) inverted question mark ( ¿ ) number sign/pound/hash/octothorpe ( # )

numero sign ( № ) obelus ( ÷ ) ordinal indicator ( º, ª ) percent etc. ( %, ‰, ‱ ) pilcrow ( ¶ ) prime ( ′, ″, ‴ ) section sign ( § ) tilde ( ~ ) underscore/understrike ( _ ) vertical/broken bar, pipe ( ¦, | ) Intellectual property copyright symbol ( © ) registered trademark ( ® ) sound recording copyright ( ℗ ) service mark ( ℠ ) trademark ( ™ )

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Notes 1. As of Unicode version 6.1

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• unicode DB
• wikipedia:Arrow (symbol)
• wikipedia:Letterlike Symbols
• wikipedia:dingbat
• Technical Writing rules FAQ - related to highly technical assembly/maintenance manuals but we can take note of a few useful points from the FAQ.
• E Prime - would likely reduce the challenge to translations.
• wikipedia:E-Prime#Discouraged_forms_and_rationale_for_typical_replacements

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