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== About me==
*Kristoffer Bjärkefur
*Work with developing best practice and software tools at DIME
*See https://github.com/worldbank/ietoolkit
*kbjarkefur@worldbank.org

== Pages on this wiki I frequently need: ==

*Stylesheet : [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]
*Javascript : [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]

== Code snippet example == 

This part is using the regular <nowiki><code></nowiki> tag which is great when writing code in the middle of a sentence:

'''Ex.1''' Use the ''egen'' function <code>rowtotal()</code> when aggregating variables.

However, the <nowiki><code></nowiki> tag is not great when writing multiple lines of code because there is a space in the formatting between the lines. It doesn't feel like a single code snippet.

'''Ex.2'''

<code>
gen varA = .<br>
replace varA = 1 if gender == 1<br>
replace varA = 0 if gender == 0
</code>

One solution to this that I found was to use the <nowiki><pre></nowiki> tag. Multiple lines displays really nice (and I like the color better):

'''Ex.3'''
<pre>
gen varA = .
replace varA = 1 if gender == 1
replace varA = 0 if gender == 0
</pre>

However, the <nowiki><pre></nowiki> tag is no good for when writing code in the middle of a sentence. '''Ex.4''' is the same code as '''Ex.1''' but with a <nowiki><pre></nowiki> tag instead of a <nowiki><code></nowiki> tag:

''Ex.4''' Use the ''egen'' function <pre>rowtotal()</pre> when aggregating variables.

What I have done in my examples I uploaded today was to use <nowiki><pre></nowiki> for multi-line code examples and <nowiki><code></nowiki> for inline code examples, but as they look quite different in color I do not think it is a great solution. Not our top priority perhaps, but since there will be plenty of code examples we should decide on a policy for this.