9: Basic Editing
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- 9.1: Watching, Rating, and Providing Feedback for a Page
- This page emphasizes the role of community curation in sustaining the LibreTexts library, highlighting features like Watching Pages, Rating Pages, and Feedback. Users can subscribe to pages for notifications, rate content to indicate its helpfulness, and provide feedback (limited to logged-in members) for improvement. This approach aims to involve users actively in enhancing content quality while directing suggestions to the development team.
- 9.2: Image Resources
- This page offers a list of online resources for openly licensed images suitable for embedding in LibreTexts Pages, including Unsplash, Pexels, Pixabay, The Gender Spectrum Collection, and Flickr. It advises caution with Google Images to ensure licenses are open for reuse. The emphasis is on using appropriate and legally permissible images in educational content.
- 9.3: Editing a Page
- This page introduces the LibreTexts platform for creating educational content, focusing on the Remixer tool and WYSIWYG CKEditor for user-friendly content development. It outlines key features like automatic saving and word count display, and organizes editing tools into menus. Contributors are reminded of their responsibility for submitted content and are encouraged to use basic functions until they become familiar with the interface.
- 9.4: Adding Images and Figures
- This page outlines how to add images to a LibreTexts page, detailing methods like manual upload and drag-and-drop, while stressing the use of compatible image formats, proper formatting, and Alt-text. It also lists resources for open-source images, including Smithsonian Open Access, Unsplash, and Wikimedia Commons, and highlights initiatives like the Queer in Tech Collection and WOCinTech Chat to enhance representation in tech.
- 9.5: Adding Videos (YouTube)
- This page details a tutorial for embedding YouTube videos into LibreTexts, consisting of five steps: copying the video URL, selecting the video element, pasting the URL, adjusting size, and adding a caption. It also notes that video from other sources can be embedded using <iframe> code and mentions that LibreTexts is developing a custom video archive.
- 9.6: Adding Tables
- This page provides guidance on adding and managing tables in a text editor via the "Elements" menu or toolbar, including specifying rows and columns, and copying tables from other sources. It highlights the importance of setting initial rows/columns as headings for accessibility and suggests making tables responsive for better viewing on devices. Additionally, users can modify table properties through right-clicking, enhancing usability and accessibility.
- 9.7: Hyperlinking
- This page offers a tutorial on creating effective hyperlinks in the LibreTexts platform, detailing the process for linking to both internal and external content while avoiding link farming. It explains how to insert hyperlinks, utilize the browsing function for specific content, and set anchors for linking to precise locations on a page, like equations or images, to improve navigation.
- 9.8: Adding Predefined Template Code (e.g., Boxes)
- This page explains the "Templates" feature in the editing toolbar, detailing specialized code snippets for webpage integration. It outlines different template types, like BOX templates for text containers and Embed templates for interactive HTML5 content, each serving a distinct purpose such as solutions, exercises, or notes. Readers are urged to explore these templates on test pages to grasp their uses, with additional template types to be discussed in later sections.
- 9.9: Accessibility Checking
- This page discusses the CK Editor in LibreTexts for peer reviews, highlighting its automated accessibility checking features. Users can identify accessibility issues and receive suggestions for quick fixes to enhance their content's accessibility.
- 9.10: Page Titles
- This page provides guidelines for formatting titles on LibreTexts, requiring a structure of "XX.YY: title" with specific exceptions for chapter summaries, exercises, and subpages. It uses a biology textbook example for clarity and includes instructions for editing titles and URLs, stressing the need for consistent numbering to aid curation and remixing.
- 9.11: Adding Automatic Organizations
- This page explains the creation and management of a dynamic table of contents using the LibreTexts portfolio template, emphasizing the organization of topic hierarchy and URLs for clarity and numerical order. It details how to modify titles and uncouple them from URLs for better display order, especially in lengthy chapters. Additionally, it mentions the LibreTexts team's exploration of automation to streamline this process.