...having said that, I've just come across: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/HelpOnMoinWikiSyntax#Comments IMO this would provide a way to show/hide Rank info on the portal page at the click of a button. Would someone care to try it out on the Vocabulary/NuVocWithRank page?
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One of the things I really like about the old J dictionary is that the > page titles have the > > symbolic and English forms of the terms: e.g., "<title>-: Halve - > Match</title>", so that > > when I have dozens of tabs open on the dictionary I can use those to > choose a page > > using the tab-choosing mechanism in my browser." > > That would be nice. But I don't know how to set the <title> text in the > generated html. I didn't know Moinmoin allowed it. If somebody knows how to > do it then please tell me. I'm just about to do an automated bulk update > and if it's a one-line addition -- that's something I can so-easily > incorporate. > > On the topic of fancy effects with the NuVoc portal page -- I'm a > content-generator, not a Moinmoin engineer. It's lowest priority for me. If > somebody wants to produce a mashup to show us all, then I'll gratefully > leave it all to them. > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Peter B. Kessler < > peter.b.kess...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> On 01/22/14 11:36, Brian Schott wrote: >> >>> Peter, >>> >>> I like your idea a lot. >>> >>> Going even further, but with tongue well in cheek -- but not trying to >>> undermine your idea, how about putting y arguments beside monadic verbs, >>> x >>> and y arguments around dyadic verbs, u or m arguments beside adverbs, >>> and u >>> or m and v or n arguments around conjunctions. I wonder if this might >>> actually work on the backup nuVoc page? >>> >>> Btw, it is not clear whether you meant your idea to be only on the backup >>> nuVoc page, or on the primary nuVoc page, but I assume you meant the >>> former. Yes/no? >>> >> >> I meant on the page where you show the ranks. E.g., >> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NuVocWithRank rather than >> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NuVoc. As a newbie, I might start with >> the undecorated page, but as I advance to where I understand (or am >> confused by :-) ranks, I can just change my bookmark for the new J >> dictionary to point at the one with the ranks. (Don't do one or the other: >> make variants available and let user choose. Then monitor the http server >> logs and ....) >> >> One of the things I really like about the old J dictionary is that the >> page titles have the symbolic and English forms of the terms: e.g., >> "<title>-: Halve - Match</title>", so that when I have dozens of tabs >> open on the dictionary I can use those to choose a page using the >> tab-choosing mechanism in my browser. The NuVoc pages have, e.g., >> "<title>Vocabulary/minusco - J Wiki</title>" which means I have to learn to >> read yet another set of abbreviations. "minusco" doesn't help me either >> when I'm writing code and trying to find "what's the symbol for the verb >> that Halves", or when I'm reading code and trying to find "what does -: >> mean". (And when I have lots of tabs open, the titles are shortened to >> "Vocabulary ...", which doesn't help at all.) >> >> ... peter >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Peter B. Kessler < >>> peter.b.kess...@oracle.com> wrote: >>> >>> Would it make sense to put the ranks in place of the operands? Monads >>> with >>> >>>> one rank on the right and dyads with one rank on the left and one on the >>>> right? E.g., the line for Negate and friends would be >>>> [snip] >>>> >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
