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Acronyms Spell out all acronyms on their first appearance. Identify all the acronyms used in the text and make a list of them using acronym markdown at end of main text using acronym markdown e.g. *[PHE]: Public Health England. (This is explained in the the 'Formatting Markdown' section on the right of each WP page.)
Capitals Do not capitalise words for emphasis. If points must be emphasised use bold (sparingly).
Hyphens Do not use hyphens to indicate duration. '20-40' should be written ’20 to 40’
Italics Italics aren’t possible in Markdown, so can’t be used for species names.
Links Embed links in meaningful link text using the format [link text](URL).
Number All numbers must be written as digits except one, unless one is used directly with other numbers or as part of a sequence of steps.
Slashes Do not use forward slashes for years, use the word ‘to’. 2019/20 should be written ‘2019 to 2020’.
Tables Explain The Markdown Formatting section explains how to create tables in markdown.
Refer to Note that there is an online table creator? which converts simple tables to Markdown.
Toggle tables to bar charts WP now has a functionality which allows users to toggle between tables and bar charts. This is explained on the Bar charts pageExplain functionality which toggles tables to bar charts and back.
Images
Refer to the images and infographics section
Main The main points are:
- Images images must be 960 x 640 pixels in dimensionAdd
- to image using image add an image to a web page using the 'New Image' functionality on the main Document page
- add . Add a caption but no alt text. ; GDS now mandate that instead of alt text all images must be described in the main body copy
- When when you upload an image the system generates a snippet of markdown code, for example ‘!!1’. Insert this in the text where needed.you want the image to appear
Further reading