Another arrow like symbol is ჻ (4347) . For more arrow entities you can check: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/arrows.html
Thanks, Caty On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 14:42, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 13:29, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mar 31, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > > > >> On 03/31/2010 11:30 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > >>> > >>> On Mar 31, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> We need a consistent way to handle document references in UIs. > >>>> > >>>> For example, on the rename template, the title is "Renaming<string > serialization of a reference here>". > >>>> Thus if the page is named "?." in the space "Main" for example we get: > "Renaming Main.?\." > >>>> Same for the wysiwyg editor's insert link dialog box (under the title > we have the technical reference printed). > >>>> > >>>> Proposal > >>>> ======= > >>>> > >>>> Since references are technical I don't think we should print them in > the UI. > >>>> > >>>> Instead we should print its constituents: wiki, space, page (or just > space, page when not in multiwiki or when handling a ref not from the > current wiki). > >>>> > >>>> This is what Caty has done in the Search UI BTW. Thus I propose to > reuse her idea and print this: > >>>> > >>>> wiki>> space>> page > >>>> > >>>> where>> is the HTMLÅ symbol. > >>>> > >>>> You can check visually what I mean here: > >>>> > http://playground.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebSearch?text=test&x=0&y=0 > >>>> > >>>> Thus applying this to the example above, we would have: > >>>> > >>>> "Renaming Main>> ?." > >>>> > >>>> And thus this removes the technical aspects: > >>>> * no ":" or "." to separate wiki and space > >>>> *no character escaping > >>>> > >>>> WDYT? Any other idea to achieve the same result ? > >> > >> +1. > >> > >> Maybe / would be good as a separator. It's respecting the directory/file > >> separator, it's also used in the URLs. it's familiar. > > > > "/" would be ok too but provided it's displayed in a different color and > appropriate spacing between reference parts and "/". I have the feeling > Å provides less ambiguity since it cannot appear easily in a document > name while "/" is common. > > I think i would also prefer an arrow or any other shape more UI > oriented than "/". > > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > >>> Another idea: > >>> have a rectangle box drawn with 3 internal boxes, each for a reference > part (wiki, space, page). > >> > >> I don't like this. Boxes are visual only, and borders aren't really good > >> at being suggestive. > >> > >> -- > >> Sergiu Dumitriu > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
