I guess this should be on the devel list On 27 May 2010 15:14, Dan Bolser <dan.bol...@gmail.com> wrote: > About the fix proposed here: > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23679 > > > Given that plain (unformatted) printout is just a special case of the way > units > are selected, don't you think it's reasonable to suppress the output of units > when using plain (unformatted) printouts? > > i.e. If I say: > > * {{#show: Some page | ? My property # seconds }} > * {{#show: Some page | ? My property # hours }} > > > It's clear that I want the result in seconds or hours, respectively. However, > if I say: > > * {{#show: Some page | ? My property # - }} > > > Isn't it clear that I don't want units? > > I'm being fussy about this because I want to take the values and pass them to > calculations using the #expr: parser function. This won't work if their is a > unit in the result. > > > Comments? > > Dan. > > > On 27 May 2010 11:05, Dan Bolser <dan.bol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Yeah, I'd like to do the same thing. >> >> I think the 'natural' way to do this would be to specify "Plain >> (unformatted) printouts" for the property in question >> >> http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_information#Plain_.28unformatted.29_printouts >> >> >> However, SMW insists on putting, for example, commas in large numbers >> [1] and outputting a unit (there seems to be no way to remove the unit >> altogether), and putting a " " between the printed value and the >> unit. All nice ideas in principle, but the whole point of SMW is to >> provide *data* not *formatting*. Currently you can't get at the >> underlying data, to include it in a calculation, for example, so this >> is a bug (which I just logged [2]). >> >> >> [1] http://tinyurl.com/34vuf4y >> [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23679 >> >> >> Cheers, >> Dan. >> >> On 20 February 2010 20:19, Subscriptions <subscripti...@coldflower.com> >> wrote: >>> Is there a way to turn off the pop-up tooltips that appear over >>> properties? >>> >>> I am using an inline query to request a property value and only want >>> the returned value. The value is being returned, though, with a >>> tooltip that displays the value in several different units when you >>> hover over it. I would like to disable the tooltip in this particular >>> instance. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jonathan >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >>> Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs >>> proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. >>> See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Semediawiki-user mailing list >>> semediawiki-u...@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Semediawiki-user mailing list >> semediawiki-u...@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user >> >
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