Fonts and Format for Text
Follow the below textual formats for good content visualization.
INFO
Don't override global styles.
- Bold
Use bold to signify UI elements, notices (warning, notice, important declaration), API response - status codes, and titles in descriptions lists.
Use double asterisk in Markdown to signify bold format - for example, **bold**
.
- Italic
Use italics to draw attention to a specific word, phrase, parameter values, classes, methods, product versions, and key terms like SQL Database.
Use a single asterisk in Markdown to signify italic format - for example, *italic*
.
- Underline
Don't underline any content.
List
Use sentence cases for items in all types of lists as below:
- Numbered list - Use when you have a fixed number of entities — for example, three varieties, four categories, two types, etc, or sequential steps as shown below:
Follow the below steps to start your project:
1. Create a docker-compose.yml file
2. Start the Docker
3. Prepare Development
4. ...
- Regular bulleted list - Use this for general enlisting with an asterisk
*
in Markdown to signify bulleted lists.
You can install Shopware on Mac with the help of tools like:
* Docker
However, regular bulleted lists within tables use HTML tags.
| Who is the audience? | What are their roles? |
| :--- | :--- |
| Fullstack Developer | <ul><li>Plugin Development</li><li>Templates</li><li>Routes/ Controllers</li></ul>|
- Description list - Use when you need to describe them along with their titles. In such a case, title tags are bolded, followed by a hyphen or new line and a detailed description. For example,
The Administrations components implement a number of cross-cutting concerns. The most important are:
* **Providing inheritance** - As Shopware 6 offers a flexible extension system to develop your own Apps, Plugins, or Themes.
* **Data management** - The Administration displays entities of the Core component.
* **State management** - Proper state management is key here.
The description list can again be a numbered list or a bulleted list based on its sequence or fixed number of entities.
Date and time
In general, use the following guidelines to format expressions of date and time:
Use the 12-hour clock, except if required to use a 24-hour time, such as when documenting features that use 24-hour time.
Capitalize AM and PM, and leave one space between them and the time.
Avoid using time zones unless absolutely necessary. If using a specific time zone, spell out the region and include the UTC or GMT label.
Spell out the names of the months. For example,
January 19, 2017
.You can also use the numerical date format,
MM-DD-YYYY
, and separate the elements by hyphens.
Numbers
Spell out all ordinal numbers in the text, such as first, fourth, twelfth, and twenty-third for 1st, 4th, 12th, and 23rd, respectively. However, there are exceptions like prices, weight, and quantity which can only be represented as numbers.
Tables
Don't embed a table in the middle of a sentence.
Use table headings for the first column and the first row only.
Use tables only when you have more than one row and column to represent.
Don't end sentences with punctuation, including a period, an ellipsis, or a colon.
Use sentence case for all the elements in a table - contents, headings, labels, and captions.
Introduce a table using a complete sentence and try to refer to the table's position, using a phrase such as the following table or the preceding table.
Hyperlinks
Provide meaningful URL text links. Don't use click here or read this document phrases.
Write a complete sentence that refers the reader to another topic. Introduce the link with a phrase such as For more information, see or For more information about..., see.
Keep the link text as short as possible. Do not write lengthy link text such as a sentence or short paragraph.
Place important words at the beginning of the link text.
Don't use the exact link text in the same document for different target pages.
If the hyperlink text includes an abbreviation in parentheses, include the long form and the abbreviation in the link text.
Heading
Use
#
to set the levels of heading.Don't skip levels of the heading hierarchy. For example, an
<H3>
heading must fall under<H2>
.Follow camel case for all the
<H1>
headings — for example, Flow Sequence Evaluation and sentence case for the rest of the sub-headings that follow - for example, Flow sequence evaluation.
Refer to Vitepress syntax for more.
This section covers fonts and formats for text, while the following section covers fonts and formats for code.