> In our time would people prefer dot to period?
Personally I would. But I took the Adobe set of names as they came,
and saw no reason to alter any of them.
Except to eliminate the need for capital letters, as explained (...somewhere).
> I notice that rank is not given a fixed location.
I thought about it and decided to defer the whole matter until the
forum has converged on a preference. Retrofitting a consistent Rank
indicator throughout is no big deal.
The same goes for footnotes. MoinMoin already has this Admonitions
feature and I offer examples in my template. I have no opinion (yet)
on which are the best graphics to use. I was struck however with the
code-generation convenience, for my purposes, of an Admonition, which
I'll just reproduce here:
{{{#!wiki note
This is a note.
See: HelpOnAdmonitions for others like this.
}}}
If people can deliver their content in that form for now, then we have
got all the time in the world till doomsday to argue about what fancy
graphics we want to use (if any), and which side of a word an icon
should go.
According to HelpOnAdmonitions, there's 4 other words that can replace
"note" above: caution, warning, important and tip. But if folx want
more, then just invent a new word, eg hint, threedee, boxingglove,
bomb ... there's no limit to human ingenuity. I wouldn't be surprised
if we couldn't implement it in MoinMoin (if it's unavoidable).
But if you ask me (and you don't have to) I can't see anyone coming up
with hard evidence that fancy graphics not already offered by JWiki
will materially improve usability for everybody. But I'm a skeptic.
And I don't like predicting the results of potential experiments. I
think what HelpOnAdmonitions says about Admonitions is most pertinent;
use them sparingly. Apart from bare code blocks {{{...}}} for code
samples, I shall oppose their use for any routine purpose. That goes
for in-line icons too.
That said, I hope to see a pretty picture or animation at the top,
left or right, even if it's purely decorative (as I'm assuming it will
be).
Ian
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Brian Schott <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ian,
>
> I like the cleanness of your template greaterperiod.
>
> In our time would people prefer dot to period?
> I notice that rank is not given a fixed location.
> I wonder about placing verb inverses and fit's.
> I have to admit that the contents box appeals to me more than the blue
> box, aesthetically.
>
> I hope someone can figure out how to hyperlink graphics, but I have
> found the wiki very useful even without that. And Skip's rollover
> feature seems very slick.
>
>> but I can at least get the pop-up text to work. Anyone know how to
>> hyperlink graphics in moin moin and still have a pop-up text? Or, we
>> can just hyperlink the actual text word or phrase, and then use the
>> footnote symbol to indicate the "must know" or "nice t know" issues. The
>> pop-up text on the graphic can still be used to give brief hints about
>> the concept that is footnoted.
>>
>> Skip Cave
>>
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