Help:Style guide

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All present InfoVis Glossary–articles implement a certain layout and style that makes them easily readable and fit into the glossary–framework. To maintain this coherent style we strongly encourage you to stick to the following guidelines.

General

There are basically three types of pages in this reference, each having its own structure :

  • Overview–pages
  • Glossary/Reference–articles
  • Announcement/News

Overviews

Overviews — like the Main page — provide for quick information about and navigation–aids through a thematically coherent section.

They need to present a lot of information on a few screens; therefore these are the only pages that use the full width of the text–area instead of reserving space on the left side for margin–notes.

Switching to this layout isn't yet automatic; page margins have to be moved manually like in the following example:

... page content


Glossary–articles

Announcements

Emphasis and quotation

Typesetting