Help for posting stories

Help

Use the free Firefox Web browser to access all of Cinema Minima's writing and editing features.

Compose your story in the Write page. Do not waste your time using Microsoft Word to format your story — use the built-in Visual Rich Editor, which has the same look-and-feel of Microsoft Word. By default it is disabled; turn it on in the Users>Your Profile page. This works best in the Firefox Web browser.

How to make a bullet list. Use easy Markdown list syntax — instead of HTML — to make lists: start each line with a hyphen, followed by a space, like this:

- An item
- Another item

• An item
• Another item

How put a picture in your story. Click the Image Manager button in the Write page to upload an image and insert it into your story. For more help with Image Manager, visit the Image Manager Help Forum. The Image Manager works best in Firefox Web browser (and may not work at all in some other Web browsers).

To make a line into sub-headline within a story, surround the line with four « # » marks, like this:####This is a sub-headline#### which will render as

This is a subheadline

How to make an em-dash « — ». A double hyphen « -- » will be automatically converted into an em-dash « — ». Please do not separate clauses with single hyphens - like this; use em-dashes instead — like this.

Cinema Minima does not support en-dashes « – »