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Template / Style Guide

This is a post to record my templates and style guide I use for my posts, which is done in HTML. More could be added as more posts are published. Update: since 08/01/20, blogger provides a format HTML capability, so HTML formatting should be taken care of mostly. Otherwise, the rules below should apply.

  1. For justified word wraps and smaller font, wrap each post with: 
    <div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 80%">
  ...
<div>

  2. For code blocks, like the one above, use these values: 
    <div style="background: #f8f8f8; overflow:auto;width:auto;border:solid gray;border-width:.1em .1em .1em .8em;padding:.2em .6em;">
  <pre style="margin: 0; line-height: 125%">
<span style="color: #888888">YOUR FIRST LINE OF CODE HERE
  YOUR INDENTED CODE HERE
  MORE INDENTED CODE
  	ANOTHER INDENT LEVEL CODE
  CLOSING TAG OF FIRST INDENT CODE
FINAL CLOSING TAG</span>
</pre>
</div>
    Note there shouldn't be any spaces between the tags (new line only), and both the span tag and the pre closing tag need to be unindented to prevent a new line at the end of the code block. The template for the code block above is obtained through hilite.me — language: 'Bash' and style: 'default' with no line numbers and default padding values.

  3. Use the <br> tag for line breaks, and use the <hr> for horizontal lines ('horizontal rule').

  4. No spaces for values or words enclosed by tags unless grammatically required, like this (for the list item above): 
    <li>Use the <span style="font-family: monospace;">&lt;br&gt;</span> tag for line breaks, and use the <span style="font-family: monospace;">&lt;hr&gt;</span> for horizontal lines ('horizontal rule').</li>
    Note that the word 'Use' has no space beside the <li> tag, while a whitespace is used for 'the' on the left of the <span style="font-family...> tag because a whitespace separation is needed.

  5. Line breaks should only be added when a code block div is used. In that case, add a line break before and after the div: 
    <li>
  This is how you open your home directory in the terminal:

  <div style="background: #f8f8f8; overflow:auto;width:auto;border:solid gray;border-width:.1em .1em .1em .8em;padding:.2em .6em;">
    <pre style="margin: 0; line-height: 125%">
<span style="color: #888888">$ cd /home/</span>
</pre>
  </div>

  And that's how you open your home directory.
</li>

  6. For inline code, use the <span style="font-family:monospace;"> tag.

  7. Add a single line after every list item (<br>).

  8. To attach images, use the 'Compose view' to upload the image, then go back to 'HTML view' to modify. The attached image should show up like the following: 
    <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
  <a
    href="https://website-link.png"
    imageanchor="1"
    style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"
  >
    <img
      border="0"
      style="background-color: white;"
      data-original-height="793"
      data-original-width="800"
      width="500"
      src="https://website-link.png"
  /></a>
</div>
    Add the figure and figcaption tags to add caption to the image: 
    <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
  <figure>
    <a
      href="https://website-link.png"
      imageanchor="1"
      style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"
    >
      <img
        border="0"
        style="background-color: white;"
        data-original-height="793"
        data-original-width="800"
        width="500"
        src="https://website-link.png"
    /></a>
  </div>
  <figcaption style="font-style: italic; font-size: 80%;">
    INSERT FIGURE CAPTION HERE
  </figcaption>
<figure>

  9. To add a footnote, do the following. First, at the desired article location, append the following code: 
    <a href="#fnXX" name="fnXXtop"><sup>XX</sup></a>"
    where XX is the ith footnote number, i.e., 1, 2, 3, and so on. Note that the value to the name attribute has no # in it. Then, at the end of your article, under a horizontal line, add the note: 
    <a name="fnXX>XX</a>"
INSERT NOTE DESCRIPTION HERE
<a href="#fnXXtop"><span style="font-size: 150%">&crarr;</span></a>
    Again, note that there is no # in the value to the name attribute. The carriage return at the end helps the reader resume the article.
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