Thomas Aglassinger $VER: 1.0 basics.guide (12/13/2001) 2008 Thomas Aglassinger

This Guide demonstrates some of the basic features of Amigaguide. Playing with text - various things that can be done with text & style. Preformatted Text - a preformatted layout. Wordwrapped Text - uses wordwrap. Smartwrapped Text - uses smartwrap. Monospaced Node - shows the text in a monospaced font.

Here are some things that can be done with text: Escape characters: at-sign (@), backslash (\) Special characters: äöüߧ bold italic underline bold bold+italic allbold+italic bold bold bold+italic allbold+underline underline Here is some text from an embedded file: This is some text embedded from a text file. As you can see, Amigaguide commands in at are @{b}not@{ub} processed. Note that there is no newline character at the end of this file And here we are back again in the main document.

Here is some preformatted text. This means viewers and converters will preserve line breaks as specified in the source document.

Here is some wordwrapped text, meaning that every line in the source code is treated as paragraph. While this looks nice for the reader, it is a PITA for the author. Take a look at the source to see what I mean.

This text uses smartwrap, which means a single line break will not start a new paragraph. This is nice for the author because unlike with wordwrap, the text can be split over several lines without the need for horizontal scrolling. To start a new paragraph, simply leave an empty line. Like this. And this. See what I mean? Probably not unless you took a closer look at the source code.

Unlike the rest of the document, this node uses a monospaced font. Which is nice for ASCII art, so here's a classic: (__) (oo) U /-------\/ /---V / | || * |--| . * ||----|| ^^ ^^ Cow at 1 meter. Cow at 100 meters. Cow at 10,000 meters.