this guide has been a long time coming, and it’s got a long ways to go. for now, it’s a start. and that’s what counts.

text

http://hobix.com/textile/quick.html is your first stop for text

much of the formatting used in this quide makes use of textile. with it, centering paragraphs, creating numbered lists, adding links, emboldening text is a snap. please take a look at the textile guide for specific formatting needs that aren’t covered in this guide.

dropcaps

%(dropcap)T% his is what i call a dropcap...

T his is what i call a dropcap…

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a paged article is different than a regular article. with micro, i wanted to use paged articles for anything, be it an edge to edge photo or a contact form. for that reason, these section pages are free of style, and look like this:

that is, until you do something about it.

the above screenshot is from Pascal’s demo of the micro theme. if you prefer to style a paged section exactly like a regular article, just wrap your text in some stylesheet friendly html:

<div class="entry">
    your content here
</div>

essentially, we’re fooling the page into thinking it’s a regular blog entry. the about page of this site is styled this way, and after applying the above style class to Pascal’s copy, we can turn the unstyled, into styled:

that big C is part of the built in dropcap class.

i’ve been trying to figure out a decent way to highlight the current section in micro, and it seems that mephisto has a built in method, but it doesn’t work right out of the box. no worries – with a bit of css and built in liquid, we can achieve:

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