On 3/14/07, Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> wrote:
> Dirk Elzinga skrev:
> > Hey.
> >
> > I just put the Shemspreg grammatical description on
> >
http://wiki.frath.net/Shemspreg . Your comments would be
> > welcome, especially on layout and organization.
> >
> > Dirk
> >
> >
> >
>
> I can only agree with David that it's all excellent!
> On the wiki-technical side you might want to
>
> * Put the index at the bottom of every page into a template.
> Just do this:
>
> 1) Put the code {{Shemspreg index}} before the index section
> on one of your pages.
> 2) Copy out the index section.
> 3) Hit the Preview button.
> 4) Follow the link to Template:Shemspreg index which
> appears.
> 5) Paste in the index section into the edit box of the
> template page.
> 6) Replace the index section on each of your pages with
> {{Shemspreg index}}
> 7) Now if you want to change the index you just have to
> change it on the template page and the changes will be
> visible everywhere. There will be a link to the template
> in the edit view of every page that uses it.
Thanks. I'll do this.
> * You might want to change
>
> *Introduction to [[Shemspreg]]
>
> into
>
> *[[Introduction to Shemspreg|Shemspreg]]
>
> so that the rendered line looks more like the other lines of
> the index.
Thanks. Being new to wikis, I wasn't sure how to do this.
> * You might want to change the opening line of your
> tables into
>
> {| class="gridtable"
>
> so that the grid lines become visible. They aren't otherwise
> in Firefox. You will also get your header cells shaded and
> in a sans font. If you don't like that try
>
> {| class="bordertable"
>
> which is a lot less intrusive. I find that on a web page I
> generally do want the cell borders to be visible, and if I
> wan't them less intrusive the best way is to make them a
> light color.
I'm not a big fan of making gridlines visible; it makes charts and
tables too busy. I prefer to let the chart/table data partition itself
(though I wouldn't mind widening the table cells a bit; they are
rather crowded as it is right now). Is this a problem? You mentioned
your own vision problems, and while I don't know that I should change
everything around to accomodate a single individual's needs or
preferences, I would be willing to adjust the formatting if there is a
widespread feeling that another way is better ...
Dirk