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Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

By : ANDRIY LESYUK
Book Image

Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

By: ANDRIY LESYUK

Overview of this book

Redmine is not only one of the popular open source project management applications but also one of the best project hosting and issue tracking solutions. This book is an update of our previous successful edition, Mastering Redmine. This book is a comprehensive guide that will give you a detailed practical understanding on how to effectively manage, monitor and administer complex projects using Redmine. You will get familiar with the concept of Issue Tracking and will get to know why and what makes Redmine one of the best issue trackers. Another main part of Redmine functionality, which is Managing projects shows why this is one of the best applications for project hosting. Furthermore, you will learn more about Redmine rich text formatting syntax, access control and workflow and time Tracking. Towards the end, you will unleash the power of custom fields and guides to show how to customize Redmine without breaking upgrade compatibility. By the end of the book, you will have a deep practical understanding on how to effectively monitor and manage large scale and complex projects using Redmine.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Redmine Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Quick Syntax Reference
Index

The Wiki syntax


So far, we have discussed the way in which text formatting is integrated into Redmine. Now we'll focus exclusively on the syntax rules.

The basics

The supported syntax rules can be divided into special rules (for example, lists and tables) and the rest. So, the rest actually includes not only the basics but also rules that are very simple and therefore do not need a separate subsection. Moreover, these are the rules that you are going to learn right now. But let's start with the basic principles.

A Textile or Markdown document is a plain-text document. The new line character in such a document is treated as a <br /> tag in HTML; that is, the rest of the text after the new line character in the current paragraph is moved to a new line.

A paragraph is separated from the previous and next paragraphs by an empty line, that is, two new line characters. Thus, the following text will be formatted as a single paragraph:

Redmine is a flexible project management web application.
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