Getting Started

Edit these pages

Navigate to any page on the wiki to create a new page. You'll get either an existing page or a standard 404 Not Found error. Either way, you can hit Ctrl+E to get into (and out of) edit mode. You may need to click the page to focus it before Ctrl+E will work. Shift+Click should also work.

Experiment in the sandbox first.

If you started with a 404 Not Found page, you will be prompted for a document <title>, and then Octavo (the editor software) set you in the document ready to start typing.

Using Octavo

Octavo editor is a kind of DOM swiss army knife, built on top of the native contenteditable browser controls. It has only been tested in Chrome, but is also reported to work in Firefox.

Some essentials:

• Ctrl+S — Save the page. This uses HTTP PUT to store the page on the server, so you'll need your access credentials.
• Ctrl+H — Toggle a cheat sheet. This will get you started with some other editing commands. Play about with them and see what they do! The cheat sheet is a bit out of date, but it should be okay.

Please also read the short style guide before editing. Just gives us a few tips to make sure that we make more or less consistent pages.

Please add more tips to this page if this guide omits anything important. File any bugs to Octavo issues.