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So it came to be that the short history of the printed word didn't bring us much variety in text decoration. To dilute the sameness different fonts, formats, and sizes may be used. Even outside eRep, having typed some text in a certain font, our further maneuvers are fairly limited. We can increase line height, align the text left or right. Almost no ways exist to convey the tone used - just a handful of punctuation marks. In eRep we are bound to using the few allowed tags. bold, italics, underlined, and strikethrough text, hyperlinks, separators, headers, etc. Let's look at how they are used in depth.



→ Header
Header is the face of any newspaper. If a paper doesn't have a header then it doesn't have a face. A header must fit the text's style and the paper's contents and it is what makes the first impression. The header should be 550 px wide and 50 px to 200 px high.

→ Separator
Separator - a subsidiary and a vital tool that greatly increases readability and accuracy of articles in general. It is important to know when to stop and do not use this item more than once in ten lines (the exception - the prologue and epilogue).

→ Making the paper's title
A good habit which indicates a high e-professionalism of the author - an indication of the newspaper (usually - abbreviations) in the topic title. For example: “[TIA] Title of article." It is also very convenient to specify in which language the article is written, if they have more than one. For example: “[TIA RUS / ENG] Title of article."

→ Series
If you are writing a series of articles related to one theme (the presidential books, etc.) - easy to create a list of publications at the end of the article, before the epilogue.

→ Headlines
Headers can be bold to stand out. In very rare cases, if the article is incredibly voluminous you can create graphical headlines.

→ Paragraph
Use paragraphs, under the general provisions of the language you use when writing the article. Also, after and before the separator, after caps, and during the interview format of Q & A.

→ Quotes
Encouraged to issue citations in such a style: “Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky / The Possesse😛 Kirilov, Part III, ch. VI, "A busy night"

→ Interview
If you conduct an interview I urge you to publish a final material in the style of Q & A and also apply paragraphs between questions. For example:

Q1: How are you?
A1: Better than yesterday, but worse than tomorrow!

Q2: Why are you so angry?
A2: I am a vegetarian!



→ “B” – Bold
Bold is better suited for headlines. Bold can also be appropriate to highlight words in text but it has one feature - the bold word can be stand out so much that it can distract the reader’s flow. It is necessary to take note and do not abuse this technique.

If you get just an incredibly important and urgent need to highlight any word among the text that is already allocated Bold, you should use Bold Italic. By itself it is virtually never used. Bold is illustrative and promotional in nature and almost never occurs in a literary text. Italic is just very useful for literature and quotations.

→ “I” – Italics
Italics should be used for the selection of words without changing the optical uniformity of the strip. Since the bold text immediately caught my eye and can deprive the reader of the intent to surprise or promote emphasis it is better to use italics in such cases. It helps to highlight the word, but it is not evident until the opinion is not suitable to a specific row.

If you simplify things, generally in typesetting it is better to use italics in text and bold in headings. As with any other special method it is important not to abuse them. Formatting an entire page in italics is very difficult for the reader to read or follow.

→ "S" – Strikethrough
Struckthrough text can convey a variety of meanings and serve many a purpose. When working with text, it means one of the editors (For example, the newspaper belongs to an org) deleted the information on purpose, but gave the author the opportunity to check his mistake for future reference.

Struckthrough text can also be used for humorous purposes, for example - "If the correct amount of methamphetamine tenderness is applied, using force won't be necessary".

→ “U" – Underlined
Underlining (often used together with "b") is used to highlight the importance of a passage and increase the percentage of readers who will actually read said text. And, most importantly, it actually works. But don't forget, much like nuclear arms, such measures are best used sparingly and appropriately.


→ “URL" — Hyperlinks
Hyperlinks. If every second word is underlined, the reader will stop paying attention. The laws of perception and attention retention apply to the Internet as well. Therefore the less links there are in a given amount of text, the better.

A link should be as short and relevant as possible. It should be used only when it links to a document that contributes new information not touched upon in the article.

→ “SUB" and “SUP" — Subscript and superscript
Use these tools to preserve the meaning of such elements as formulas and other, less common, thingies.


Use these tools to preserve the meaning of such elements as formulas and other, less common, thingies.



→ “IMG" — Images
1. The image must be no more than 550 pixels wide. Also, the image should not exceed 350 pixels in height. Adjust it to these dimensions in any graphics editor.

2. Split the image into two equal parts. 275 pixels each. Upload the images to any reliable image hosting. Iimageshack.us would be a good choice.

3. Publish images according to the pattern. As a result, they will look like one. Similarly, you can split the image into three or more parts.




This paper is not perfect. Surely you have your own traditions and rules. But I hope the article will be useful for you. This article uses materials from "Kovodstvo". Special thanks to PigInZen.

Regards, Sunbeliever.