On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 12:07 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 May 2014 at 10:52:45, Marius Dumitru Florea > ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > >> I'm used to quoting on JIRA and GitHub where the result is close to >> what we have right now. > > Actually JIRA and GitHub are close to what we have on xwiki.org but not what > we have on XE. My point was to improve XE. > >> The display is minimalistic but it supports >> nested quotes very well. Displaying quote symbols is a bit to much and >> I don't think it fits all the use cases. > > Possibly, yes. I’ve seen solutions that have both quotes and vertical lines > but I can’t find it again. > >> We could create a special CSS >> class that adds quotes symbols and document it so that users can >> write: >> >> (% class="quotes" %) >> > Once upon a time … > > That’s a good idea. Having a {{quote}} macro is probably better though since > you can also have an optional “source” parameter and include it in the > display. Now that doesn’t prevent the quote macro from using a “quotes” class > ;) > > So to summarize, I’d agree to: > * Changing our style to be more like what we have on xwiki.org > * Creating a simple {{quote}} macro to use when the user wishes real quotes > symbols with a source > > WDYT?
+1 Thanks, Marius > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> Thanks, >> Marius >> >> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 4:35 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> > Hi devs, >> > >> > It’s been raised by a user to me that it’s strange that when they use a >> > quote (using the “>” symbol) we don’t show visually that it’s a quote and >> > that it seems to him that it would make sense to show some quote symbols. >> > >> > Right now on XE it looks like: >> > https://www.evernote.com/shard/s119/sh/5eea60a0-8110-438e-a292-47d395c386bc/8a792a3d0ef762b07c5de41da8e07824 >> > >> > On xwiki.org (junco) it looks like this: >> > http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/References/Testimonials >> > >> > It’s true that the XE’s default doesn’t look very much like a quote… It >> > can be confused with a box easily. >> > >> > So WDYT about improving that in our default XE by having something either >> > like junco (is it clear enough that it’s a quote) or adding quotes symbols? >> > >> > Thanks >> > -Vincent >> > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
