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=== Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines ===
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[[Category:Help| ]]
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<th>What it looks like</th>
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<h2 style="margin:.5em; margin-top:.1em; margin-bottom:.1em; border-bottom:0; font-weight:bold;">Help Contents</h2>
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<big>'''[[Getting Started]]'''</big><br />
 
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[[:Category:Romance Terms|Romance Terms]] <tt>|</tt> [[:Category:Publishing Terms|Publishing Terms]]
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=== Subsection ===
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<big>'''Contributing'''</big><br />
==== Sub-subsection ====
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[[Who Can Contribute?]] <tt>|</tt> [[Help:Style Manual|Style Manual]]
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<h2> New section </h2>
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<big>'''Browsing '''</big><br />
<h3> Subsection </h3>
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[[Books]] <tt>|</tt> [[Authors]] <tt>|</tt> [[Publishers]] <tt>|</tt> [[RomanceWiki:Category Index|Categories]]
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<big>'''[[Help:Editing|Editing RomanceWiki]]'''</big><br />
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[[Help:Book Template|Book Pages]] <tt>|</tt> [[Help:Author Template|Author Pages]]<tt>|</tt> [[Help:Moving, Deleting, Merging Pages‎|Moving, Deleting, Merging Pages]] <tt>|</tt> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents#Editing_Wikipedia_-_The_Basics Wikipedia Basic Editing]
<b><font style="font-size:120%"> New section </font></b>
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<b><font style="font-size:110%"> Subsection</font></b>
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<big>'''Searching'''</big><br />
<b><font style="font-size:100%"> Sub-subsection</font></b>
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Searching Searching]
 
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<big>'''Keeping track of changes'''</big><br />
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_history Page history] <tt>|</tt> See [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent Changes]]
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[[en:newline|Newline]]:
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<big>'''Lists And Resources'''</big><br />
 
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[[Romance History]] <tt>|</tt> [[Romance Sub-Genres]]<tt> | </tt>[[Resources]]
A single
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<big>'''Images'''</big><br />
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[[Help:Uploading Images|Uploading images]]
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<big>'''Communicating '''</big><br />
 
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[[RomanceWiki:Community Discussion|Community Discussion]] <tt>|</tt>[[Help:Talk Pages|Talk Pages]]  
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<big>'''Technical Information'''</big><br />
 
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[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents#For_editors WikiMedia.org Help] <tt>|</tt> [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents MediaWiki Help Manual]
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<big>'''Where to ask questions'''</big><br />
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[[RomanceWiki:Community Discussion|Community Discussion]] - for questions on how to use RomanceWiki.<br />
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* Lists are easy to do:
 
** start every line with a star
 
*** more stars means deeper levels
 
*A newline
 
*in a list 
 
marks the end of the list.
 
*Of course
 
*you can
 
*start again.
 
 
 
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# Numbered lists are also good
 
## very organized
 
## easy to follow
 
#A newline
 
#in a list 
 
marks the end of the list.
 
#New numbering starts
 
#with 1.
 
 
 
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* You can even do mixed lists
 
*# and nest them
 
*#* like this<br>or have newlines<br>inside lists
 
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* You can also
 
**break lines<br>inside lists<br>like this
 
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; Definition list : list of definitions
 
; item : the item's definition
 
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:A colon indents a line or paragraph.
 
A manual newline starts a new paragraph.
 
* This is primarily for displayed material, but is also used for discussion on [[Help:Talk page|Talk page]]s.
 
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WARNING If you make it wide,
 
you [[en:page widening|force the whole page to be wide]] and
 
hence less readable. Never start ordinary lines with spaces.<br>
 
<center>(see also below)</center>
 
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<tr valign="top"><td><center>Centered text.</center>
 
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<td>A [[en:horizontal dividing line|horizontal dividing line]]: above
 
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and below.
 
 
 
Mainly useful for separating threads on Talk pages.
 
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Summarizing the effect of a single newline: no effect in general, but it ends a list item or indented part; thus changing some text into a list item, or indenting it, is more cumbersome if it contains newlines, they have to be removed; see also [[w:Wikipedia:Don't use line breaks]].
 

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