Marking up
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Page titles
Use initial capital letter then lower case for page titles, only capitalising those items that are natually capitalised. For example, "Marking up", "What BASIC is running", "Econet over IP"; not "Marking Up", "What BASIC Is Running", "Econet Over IP".
Headings
If the following standard headings are used, they should be used in this order, as second-level heading (surrounded by two '='s):
- See also
- External links
- References
Numbers
In page titles and the contents of pages write numbers in the way that BASIC would understand them, for instance prefix with & for hex, no prefix for decimal, prefix with % for binary. For instance;
- OSWORD 10 reads a character definition
- OSWORD &10 transmits a network packet
BASIC code
Where BASIC or machine code is used within blocks of text it should be marked up as code. The following markup:
<code>CLOSE#chn</code> calls OSFIND 0. <code>LDA #0</code> sets the zero flag.
gives the following text:
CLOSE#chn calls OSFIND 0. LDA #0 sets the zero
flag.
Blocks of code
Blocks of code should be marked up as a block of code by indenting each line with at least one space. The following markup:
(space)(space)(space)(space)DEFFNf_date(d%,m%,y%):y%=y%-1981:=d%+m%*256+(y%AND15)*4096+(y%DIV16)*32 (space)(space)(space)(space)DEFFNf_time(h%,m%,s%):=h%+m%*256+s%*65536
gives the following text:
DEFFNf_date(d%,m%,y%):y%=y%-1981:=d%+m%*256+(y%AND15)*4096+(y%DIV16)*32 DEFFNf_time(h%,m%,s%):=h%+m%*256+s%*65536
Others notes
It's BBC BASIC and BASIC, not BBC Basic or Basic. Basic refers to the generic language.
