On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:12, Christian Boltz wrote:
Hi,
> The question may sound silly, but I'll ask nevertheless:
>
> What's wrong with putting the right column into a
> Template:Mainpagerightcolumn page and to use
> {{Mainpagerightcolumn}} to include it?
>
> This way, all wiki formatting could be used.
I would have done that, but in order to keep the skin template as simple
as possible, the right column is inserted outside the regular content
area (the one you can edit via the frontend). Therefore the column can
only be inserted via the skin template and that does not support wiki
templates.
> And my usual you-should-better-call-your-eye-doctor test ;-) results
> in cut-off text in the right column. Unfortunately the right column
> gets smaller with increasing font sizes :-( - it should have a fixed
> width, specified in em.
This cannot work with the current design. It would work with a
col1-col3-col2 design with col2 floating right, but such a design would
require a header being independent from the content area with the
column. Since our header depend on the column widths in the content
area, I had to choose a col1-col2 design for the overall page. If you
now put two columns in col2 - col2.2 with 10em width floating right and
a col2.1 with auto-width and a right margin of 11em col2.2 will be
positioned below col2.1 ;-(.
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Regards
Frank
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