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Many instructional documents must repeatedly present subsets of instructions. Synchronizing all the instances of that subset repeated throughout the wiki is a poor use of energy.

These subsections can be named as separate templates and then simply included (by name) in the Wiki pages. The MediaWiki system will look up & embed the expanded subsection into the page.

By editing the template, all the pages using that template will be updated instantly. This is the handled much like re-using image files on web pages.

However, too many templates create a filing mess. An alternative to ripping out a potentially re-useable chunk of text occurs when the original document has only a single re-useable subsection. In that case, you can mark off the desirable subsection and use the original page like a template.

The following subsection is a Transclusion (transcribed inclusion) from the Gramps 5.1 Wiki Manual - Preface page. (The <onlyinclude>...</onlyinclude> tags were added the original page around the re-useable subsection.)

In this book, some words are marked with special typography:

• Internal links (aka: hotlinks, hyperlinks) mark terminology or procedures that are explained more completely elsewhere (on the same webpage or on another webpage) internally within the Gramps-Project wiki.

• External links mark terminology that is not specific to Gramps where well-defined explanations can be found on a website external to the Gramps-Project wiki.

• Applications

• Commands you type at the command line

• Filenames or Filenames

• Replaceable text

• Labels for buttons and other portions of the graphical interface. A trailing ▴ and ▾ in a column header indicates the sort order for table column. ◂ more headers or tabs ▸

• Hint text for hover or roll-over hints (aka Tooltips) that identify elements of the graphical interface

• Menu selections look like this: Menu -> Submenu -> Menu Item (Spaces should enclose the -> to make webpage auto-translation recognize menu words.) Gramplet pop-up menus are marked with a ∨ (Down Arrowhead button).

• Buttons you can click

• Disclosure triangle node ▶expand or ▼collapse disclosure triangular widget. All the nodes of the tree view mode can be simultaneously collapsed or expanded from the pop-up menu shown by right-clicking.

• CTRL+D Key combinations you can press on your Keyboard.

• Anything you type in

• Checked - Checkbox that is ☑ selected
• Unchecked - Checkbox that is ❏ unselected
• - Radio button that is ◉ selected
• - Radio button that is 🔘 deselected

• Abbreviated Latin notations: e.g., etc., i.e., N.B., P.S., viz., vs,

The manual also provides assorted bits of additional information in tips and notes as follows:

Example Tip Tips and bits of extra information will look like this.

Example Note Notes will look like this.

Finally, there are warnings, notifying you where you should be careful:

Example Warning This is what a warning looks like. If there's a chance you'll run into trouble, you will be warned beforehand.