Also, related to the math example, I think something pretty cool for maths for example, would be support of semantic annotations like the one described in this Book : https://books.google.fr/books?id=0Iq6BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA178&lpg=PA178&dq=OMDoc+html+annotation&source=bl&ots=_vSLrmP1px&sig=xTJ2HBkfISVCIx8OXlMCrP4oWqQ&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgxL39-urVAhWJalAKHd6YCs8Q6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=OMDoc%20html%20annotation&f=false
2017-08-22 15:22 GMT+02:00 Thomas Douillard <[email protected]>: > (Please forget the precedinng message) > > I’m aware of this syntax. There is issues with this. > > One is that we can’t easyli apply a CSS on it. On tables, it’s possible to > add «|class=wikitable» is possible, not in dls. I encountered cases where > people did not like the display style and replaced by bulleted list and > bold where semantically a dl would have been better. > > One other problem is that it’s hard to differentiate a multiline > definition from multiple définitions > > An example of a template that could be a usecase, in math : > https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Th%C3%A9or%C3%A8me > > > Or do you ask for some 'technical' nudging to 'enforce' a format? > Yes, technical solution would help of course, a more visible UI trick to > build glossaries would help. But I think a more fundamental thinking about > current status of glossaries or other stuffs with a legend/definition would > be a good thing to work with this largely unknown wikitext and HTML > feature. «:» is known … to indent, and «;» is knows … to bolden. But it’s > not understood as a way to build a list of answer to a post … > > 2017-08-22 15:09 GMT+02:00 Thomas Douillard <[email protected]>: > >> I’m aware of this syntax. There is issues with this. >> >> One is that we can’t easyli apply a CSS on it. On tables, it’s possible >> to add «|class=wikitable» is possible, not in dls. I encountered cases >> where people did not like the display style and replaced by bulleted list >> and bold where semantically a dl would have been better. >> >> An example o >> https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Th%C3%A9or%C3%A8me >> >> 2017-08-22 13:47 GMT+02:00 Andre Klapper <[email protected]>: >> >>> On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 12:22 +0200, Thomas Douillard wrote: >>> > Definition lists are underused. >>> > >>> > People usually prefers to format themselves to fit their preferences >>> > than to use the "; :„ syntax, or custom templates (theorem, examples, >>> > …) >>> > >>> > It’s not without good reasons : it’s kird of unaesy to do multilne >>> > definitions, they can’t be easily styled, the imbrication beetween >>> > dls and ul and on is tricky once you want to do something elaborated. >>> > >>> > Yet using dls could allow us to better annotate semantically our >>> > articles. Any idea on how to make their usage easier and to style >>> > them ? We can style tables, lists are not as easy to style. >>> >>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Glossaries ? >>> Or do you ask for some 'technical' nudging to 'enforce' a format? >>> >>> andre >>> -- >>> Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler >>> http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitext-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l >>> >> >> >
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