Oops, On the last sentence of my previous post I meant to say: I would also like to have the whole hyperlinked text and the graphic just to the *RIGHT* of the "Ceiling" and "Larger of (Max)" titles, but moin moin doesn't seem to allow that.
Skip Cave Skip Cave wrote: > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
