HTML is a 4 letter word for my users. And I try to avoid mixing HTML with the Mediawiki formatting. These are folk dancers, and computers are VERY foreign to them. But they can understand the way typewriters work -- some of them still have typewriters!
JN On 10/07/2011 01:55 PM, Darcy Whyte wrote: > html pre? > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:19 PM, John C Nash <nas...@uottawa.ca > <mailto:nas...@uottawa.ca>> > wrote: > > I have a wiki that has instructions for several hundreds of folk dances. > The simplest way > for folk to put these in is as plain text, then use the "grey box" wiki > feature to > maintain a monospaced font, as it helps to give the A, B and C parts of > the music and the > bar counts for each figure -- a very crude tabular format. For those not > familiar, putting > 2 spaces (some specs say 1 is enough) creates a typewriter like text box > on Mediawiki > (Wikipedia software). > > On my own machines, I have a command line tool in Perl that does this job > to all lines of > a file. However, for my wiki users, it would be nice to have a link on > the wiki that opens > a new tab with a text box and a button that will add the spaces to the > text in the box. > Then the material can be copied and used in the wiki page. I'm sure > someone must have done > this before, but finding such a beast (or even thinking of the right > search terms) is > non-trivial. I'd welcome pointers or some prototype HTML/Javascript or > whatever. I'm sure > it is not that difficult, but though I've done some php, I've no > expertise in Javascript. > > Best, JN > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca <mailto:Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca> > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > > _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
