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Introduction or Things to Keep in Mind


(Note how the section heading has a horizontal line directly below it.) Here, you might provide a broad, general introduction to the How-To. Why should someone be interested? What kinds of people, or more importantly, what specific models and years is this How-To for? What should people expect? It is a good idea not to use "I" in the how-to, because other people are going to modify the how-to, and it won't just be you talking anymore. If you have a floatbox, like the one on the left, end with a floatbox clearer as described in the [ Quick Editing Reference] to begin the next section of the How-To below the floatbox.

 

The Process


If you have some general information about the process, you might put it here.

Step 1: Doing the First Step
A paragraph for step 1. This is a very important step.

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Another paragraph that refers to an image. The image is inserted into a floatbox so that a caption can explain what's going on. Notice how the image floatbox stays in line with the top of this paragraph. That is accomplished by placing the floatbox at the beginning of the paragraph, without any line breaks. Floatboxes float to the right or left, depending on the type of box you choose, but remain vertically attached to the text they are in front of. The image should clearly show the part or aspect being discussed. If not, crop to - and highlight - the necessary details with the GV ImageTuner; refer to [ Using the ImageTuner].

Here comes another paragraph. Here, the floatbox clearer was not used, because this paragraph does not refer to an image that can be confused with the image from the previous paragraph.
 

Oops, in this paragraph some information might be confusing if it looks like it refers to the image above, so we broke out the floatbox clearer. Try changing the width of your browser to see it in action; this text should remain under the image, and never next to the image. As a side note, watch out for floating an image both on the right and the left in the same place. People with lower monitor resolutions, un-maximized windows, or those who print a how-to for use in the garage may see the images fight for room, squeezing the text between them or forcing one box to take the high road. Below is an example of this, which should probably be avoided.

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Remember: this is what not to do. As an example, what if this text needs to refer to the image at the left...

And this needs to refer to the image at the right. Now resize your window until the text squeezes out. The image fighting results in unusual placement of the floatboxes. As always, make sure to use a floatbox clearer whenever transitioning to another section that the floatbox does not pertain to. As a good practice, this How-To uses floatbox clearers to function as line breaks before each section heading.
 

Step 2: The Step Directly After the First
Now we're really getting to the meat of the process. Say this step is at a point that makes another How-To easier, like you just removed a manifold, and there is some popular modification that requires you to remove a manifold anyway. You might say, "If you haven't removed your problem-prone manifold wing nut grommet flange guide bearing splines, now is a good time to see [some other modification]."

 

Conclusion


If there is something to look out for in the future, like a break-in period, or ways to see if the process was successful, this is a good place to put it.

 

See Also...


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