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Tacysa Started conversation Sep 13, 2003
I have absolutely no clue how to do GuideML, but I did it anyway. I just wanted to know if there was any possible way to keep text in my personal space from runnig off screen so much. Thank you!
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Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged Posted Sep 13, 2003
Three tips:
The tag is for breaking text *within* a paragraph or for manual line breaking/spacing elsewhere. Paragraphs should properly marked with the tag. (See also: <./>GuideML-BR</.> and <./>GuideML-P</.>
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I'm guessing that it's the drop down box which is two wide. This is because unlike normal paragraph text, the items in the list aren't line-wrapped at all. To get around this, just use shorter descriptions for each item. You should also be able to leave the tags empty to get the current username for the person, and IIRC these are truncated. (See also: <./>GuideML-ITEM-LIST</.>
For future reference, PeerReview likes good GuideML, and so making sure you use tags and uppercase all your tags, gives you a better chance of getting your mark-up past PR (the other, easier, options are just to use the minimum of GuideML or just write articles in plain text).
Hope to see you using GuideML to write articles soon! 
(See also the <./>GuideML-Clinic</.> for all your GuideML needs. Feel free to leave questions on that page as well as here.
spelugx - <./>guru</.>, <./>scout</.>
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J Posted Sep 13, 2003
Or you can create a second line for the end of each description so that each of the lines are shorter. I know that the Thingite Page A516647 does this.
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ex Brigadeer, now Tealady Werekitty aka Tobru De'ran; ex sith extraordinaire, well poked veggie fascist and Goo Goose Posted Sep 13, 2003
ok, they mean that the list I gave you is too wide. That's why.
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Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged Posted Sep 13, 2003
Where you currently have something long like:
Ralph the Wonder Llama,the were-Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
You can split this into two s like so:
Ralph the Wonder Llama,
the were-Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
(The repeated just add some space to the front of the item to make it clear that it's 'under' the previous line, not a whole new person.)
spelugx -- <./>guru</.>
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- 1: Tacysa (Sep 13, 2003)
- 2: Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged (Sep 13, 2003)
- 3: J (Sep 13, 2003)
- 4: Tacysa (Sep 13, 2003)
- 5: ex Brigadeer, now Tealady Werekitty aka Tobru De'ran; ex sith extraordinaire, well poked veggie fascist and Goo Goose (Sep 13, 2003)
- 6: Tacysa (Sep 13, 2003)
- 7: Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged (Sep 13, 2003)
- 8: Tacysa (Sep 13, 2003)
- 9: Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged (Sep 14, 2003)
- 10: Tacysa (Sep 14, 2003)
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