I think that there are more improvements we can make to the vocabulary page templates, though I don't think that should hold up authoring more content. At the worst, we can hand-edit the pages with the final template design when we get it the way we want it.
I have modified the greaterdot (Ceiling/Max ) vocabulary description page with my idea of graphical help symbols. http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/greaterthan. (note the ending period) I had the following rationale for this modification: 1) The Monadic and Dyadic specification should be right where those definitions start, instead of in a "blue box" in the corner. It makes the meaning much clearer IMHO. What the reader needs to know should always be in-line in the text, so they run right into it (or stumble right over it, as the case may be) as they read. 2) The exclamation point graphic points up a "this is important to know" concept. such as valence. We will need a key note, likely on the first page, that explains to the novice that the exclaim graphic indicates an important concept that they should explore before going too much further. 3) I discovered that moin moin graphics can have "alternate text" which pops up when you hover the mouse over the graphic. That's a perfect place to put hints and brief help text for the novice, without intruding on the more experienced users. Try it out on the exclaim graphic on the >. page, and see what you think. 4) The words Monadic and Dyadic are still hyperlinked to the Valence description/tutorial pages, so if the pop-up hint isn't enough, they can take the link to the detailed description/tutorial. This may allow us to shrink the size of the "blue box" in the corner to just specifying Parts of Speech and Rank.. I would really like to have had both the hyperlinked text (Monadic/Dyadic) and the exclaim graphic to have the pop-up text, but I haven't found how to do that as yet. Similarly, I would like the graphic to hyperlink to the valence pages just like the hyperlinked text but again, I haven't discovered the moin moin code for that either. Finally, I would also liked to have the whole hyperlinked text and the graphic just to the left of the "Ceiling" and "Larger of (Max)" titles, but moin moin doesn't seem to allow that. Skip Cave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
