NPS eXtyles User Guide
The Body Tab
- Jenny Seifert (Unlicensed)
Following examples show how to use the styles on the Body tab of the style palette, and the BITS XML that is produced for each style.
Lists, figures, and tables are described in the Object Tab section of the style guide.
Headings and Body Text
Headings must be used in their proper hierarchical order to achieve correct and valid BITS XML. This means that a Head 1 must always precede a Head 2, and so on. Headings should not be applied based solely on the way that they look in the Word document.
The first heading in a document should always be styled as Head 1, and then any nested sections should be styled using Head 2, and so on.
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<title>Methods</title>
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<title>Data Collection</title>
<p>ADS-B data were collected and purchased from L3Harris (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.l3harris.com/">https://www.l3harris.com/</ext-link>). The acquired data were formatted as polyline shapefiles for geographic information systems (GIS) analysis.
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</sec>Body Text should be used throughout the main body of the document (Front Matter Text and Appendix Body Text should be used as appropriate for those sections of text).
eXtyles Cleanup will autostyle document Body Text if that option is selected in the Cleanup dialog. Note that you will still want to proof the document to ensure that the body text styling was completed correctly, but you do not need to restyle those paragraphs that are already correctly styled as Body Text.
If a body text paragraph is interrupted by a list or other text element, the style Body Continued should be used.
<p>Changes in ocean shoreline position in the NCBN parks were identified by coastal scientists and park managers as geomorphologically significant, and the type of observational data that can easily be assembled and quickly and effectively incorporated into park management operations. Among these important considerations are:
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<list-item><label>•</label><p>Changes in shoreline position serve as a surrogate for sediment budget measurements.</p></list-item>
<list-item><label>•</label><p>Changes in shoreline position document the seasonal, annual, and long-term trends in beach displacement.</p></list-item>
<list-item><label>•</label><p>Ocean position monitoring is compatible with the historical record and ongoing measurement.</p></list-item>
<list-item><label>•</label><p>Ocean position monitoring is feasible to implement at the network level with existing technology and equipment.</p></list-item>
<list-item><label>•</label><p>Ocean position data are readily used at the park level in various management applications.</p></list-item>
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The Ocean Shoreline Position Protocol includes a number of highly-detailed standard operating procedures (SOPs) in a separate <underline>SOP Document</underline> (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="r33">Psuty and others, 2022</xref>). They are intended to ensure the consistency and repeatability essential to any long-term monitoring program. These SOPs will be modified and revised as technology improves and better methods for monitoring coastal geomorphological change are developed.
...</p>Note that the paragraph <p> closes at the end of the body continued paragraph.
Display Text: Quotations, Equations, and Code
eXtyles includes support for other types of text elements, such as quotations, equations, and code.
Use the Quotations styles for any paragraph of text that is extracted directly from another source.
<p>...the development of an Air Tour Management Plan for air tours at Mount Rushmore.</p>
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<p>“These emissions can travel long distances and deposit with rain, snow, or dust. Wright et al. (2013) suggested that dry Hg deposition is 3–4 times higher than wet Hg deposition at similar elevations to CARE across the West.”</p>
<attrib>–USEPA</attrib>
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<p>As of January 1, 2020, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires all aircraft...</p>Equations should be formatted as either plain text (e.g., a + b = c) or using the MathType editor. We recommend against using pictures to display math formulas because the pictures will not be as accessible once the content is rendered (i.e., a screen reader can read MathML, which is a specific XML markup for math and which can be generated by eXtyles for math that has been formatted using MathType).