Talk:Futurebasic

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It would be a good idea to reorganize the TOC into task-specific sections. With FBtoC as the only form of FutureBASIC now under development, there is no need to separate the Wikibook based on FBtoC being "different" in some way. It is FutureBASIC now. --C. S. Wyatt (talk) 22:41, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

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I'm definitely for setting some standards and those should be part of the documentation. It should be noted that the WikiMedia convention is to not override the Wiki design; there is no easy way to force new styles because the text is meant to be portable -- like the original idea for the Web (content is king).

I will add a "Document Conventions" page, if there isn't one, and we can update that for some uniform guidelines. --C. S. Wyatt (talk) 22:24, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

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Hi,

I think we need a set of editing rules so that all pages in the book look consistent. For example, I see sometimes keywords written in capitals, some other times in lowercase characters. We must adopt here clear conventions.

I believe also that inline styles are not a good idea. Example :

<span style="color:blue;">/* '''Not Supported in FBtoC''' */</span>

Although I don't know how CSS files are included in the web pages and how one can acess them to edit them, we will be better off defining CSS rules designed to apply to certain elements. The code above would become something like that:

<span class="rem">/* '''Not Supported in FBtoC''' */</span>

Furthermore, we should follow as closely as possible the conventions stated in the chapter titled "Introduction to the FB language":

• Items in italics represent placeholders which should be replaced as indicated in the description;
• Items in bold text represent literal text that you should enter exactly as shown;
• Items in plain non-italic text represent literal text that you should usually enter exactly as shown.

I have the Reference Manual in Word format, for those interested (I guess I must ask Staz Software if I can give it away).

Your thoughts?

As an additional note, someone has to upload the pictures needed for the manual. Who is going to do that job? And once done, is there a way for anyone to browse them to get their reference?

Dim i as myself (talk) 15:06, 2 February 2008 (UTC)