Clean up the "Getting Started" section
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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ You can add comments to your text that are not a part of the story. Regular comm
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for you to add notes to yourself inside the text, which may be useful when you revise your drafts.
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However, there are several types of comments you can use.
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This section covers the basic comment types. There are a couple of advanced features that sue
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This section covers the basic comment types. There are a couple of advanced features that use
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comment syntax too, but they are covered later.
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@@ -18,11 +18,12 @@ Plain Comments
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A plain comment is a line or paragraph that starts with the character ``%`` as its first character.
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You can put them wherever you like in your documents, and you can chose to include or exclude them
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You can put them wherever you like in your documents, and you can choose to include or exclude them
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from your manuscript.
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For the most part, novelWriter completely ignores these comments. They are not included in your
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word or character count, and are only displayed in the document viewer panel if you enable them.
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word or character counts either, and are only displayed in the document viewer panel if you enable
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them.
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:bdg-info:`Example`
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@@ -49,9 +50,9 @@ in your manuscript, but they are formatted differently than plain comments.
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.. note::
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A summary or description comment can only be used once for each heading as they are considered a
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description of the content of the text under that heading. If you add two such comments under
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the same heading, the last one will be used.
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A summary or description comment can be used once, and only once, for each heading as they are
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considered a description of the content of the text under that heading. If you add two such
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comments under the same heading, the last one will be used.
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Synopsis
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@@ -111,9 +112,9 @@ The matching is done with a key that links the two. If you insert a footnote fro
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menu, a unique key is generated for you. Shortcodes in general are covered in more detail in
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:ref:`docs_usage_formatting_shortcodes`.
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The insert feature will add the footnote shortcode marker at the position of your cursor in the
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editor panel, and create the associated footnote comment right after the paragraph. It will then
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move the cursor there so you can immediately start typing the footnote text.
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The insert footnote feature will add the footnote shortcode marker at the position of your cursor
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in the editor panel, and create the associated footnote comment right after the paragraph. It will
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then move the cursor there so you can immediately start typing the footnote text.
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The footnote comment can be anywhere in the document, so if you wish to move them to, say, the
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bottom of the text, you are free to do so.
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