User:Bruce M. Tindall

 Where Bruce lives it is approximately: 06:09

Bruce Tindall is a poet, author, and teacher. He spent over 20 years in the computer software business as a developer and technical manager. More recently he has taught writing at Southern Methodist University and the University of California, San Diego. He received a B.S. with Honors in Mathematical Sciences from UNC-Chapel Hill, an M.A. from Duke University, and an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College. He is co-author of two nonfiction books; has copyedited several scholarly manuscripts on East Asian history; and has published poems (one of which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize) in many literary journals, including the Beloit Poetry Journal, West Branch, Light Quarterly, and the Southern Poetry Review.

Howto

I stole from Aleta Curry the idea of keeping helpful hints for myself (and anyone else who wants to use them) here so I won't forget how to do certain things in CZ.

CZ:How to has a lot of how-to info.

To insert footnotes in an article, put the text of the footnote between <ref> and </ref>. That will create the superscript number. But also, at the bottom of the article, where you want the text of the footnotes to appear, put ==Notes== (or References or Footnotes or whatever you want the heading to be), and on the next line, put <references/> (note that forward slash after the keyword).

To display wiki markup keywords literally, and suppress their interpretation (i.e., to "macro-quote" them, in SAS Macro parlance), use the keyword <nowiki> .

To browse a list of all templates, click on "Special pages" in the left-hand column, then select the "Templates" namespace.

This explains how Definition Templates work: http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1374.0.html .

The suggested subdivisions of "gazetteer" geography articles can be found at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Geography_Workgroup/Gazetteer .

To alphabetize: Sometimes, in the list of articles in the "Live" category or another category, an article will not appear in the correct alphabetical order specified by the "abc=" field of the checklist. To force re-alphabetization, make a meaningless change (like adding a blank space) to the main article, and remove any "Categories:" specifications from the bottom of the main article. Thanks to Chris Day and Matt Innis for discovering these fixes and posting them in the Technical forum in early May 2008.

To make xxx redirect to yyy: Create page xxx, and in it, put the single line #REDIRECT [[yyy]] .

Finnegans Disclaimer

Since I may be contributing to some of the James Joyce-related pages, I should probably explain that I am not related (as far as I know) to the late Joyce scholar William York Tindall of Columbia University.