Hi Olaf,

no problem at all.

For now I'll concentrate on the docs themselves.

Hope you can find some time for PicoLisp again.

If all goes well I can publish the Arrays section of PLEAC later today :)

Best,
   Arie

Op ma 11 jun. 2018 22:31 schreef O.Hamann <o.ham...@gmx.net>:

> Hi Arie,
>
> keep on doing as before, I won't disturb you doing your fine work by
> hasseling with my style issues.
>
> I thought it would be more easy to centralize the special element
> formattings you used.
>
> But I did not realize, that there seems to be no wiki syntax to use css
> classes at the moment.
>
>
> So keep on copy-pasting the text-formatting for the especially formatted
> text portions, we could fix that later.
>
>
> I tried to check if I would be able to enhance the wiki/lib.l by myself,
>
> but I stumbled into pil running problems and was not able to install a
> fresh picolisp as I did years ago,
>
> so I have to put this aside for the moment. It seems that I'm out with
> coding picolisp for too long. Very sad.
>
> So I'm looking forward for further nice doc examples written by you,
>
> and hopefully get more time for picolisping in the future :-)
>
>
> Apologize for the trouble,
>
> Olaf
>
>
>
> On 11.06.2018 12:49, Arie van Wingerden wrote:
> > Hi Olaf,
> >
> > as far as I understood Alex the main CSS file currently used is
> > maintained centrally.
> >
> > If you download https://software-lab.de/wiki.tgz
> > <https://software-lab.de/wiki.tgz> you can extract the file 'wiki.css'.
> > I guess that that is the current CSS file for the Wiki.
> >
> > What I am using currently is 2 specialized CSS styles:
> >
> > 1.   ${color: MidnightBlue; font-family: "Arial Black"; font-size: 20px;
> >      for headings / paragraphs. I don't think that we really need
> > different sizes
> >
> > 2.  ${background-color: LightCyan;
> >      for explanations that deserve to stand out a bit
> >      Maybe you could use another (light) background color; I am not
> > sure about that ...
> >
> > Since I'm not too acquainted with CSS maybe you could update it and
> > send it back to Alex?
> > Also, if you have better ideas, I'd like to hear / see them :)
> >
> > Would you do this?
> >
> > Thx.
> >    Arie
> >
> >
> >
> > 2018-06-11 9:12 GMT+02:00 O.Hamann <o.ham...@gmx.net
> > <mailto:o.ham...@gmx.net>>:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >     I meant a way to collect the formatting into a css class,
> >     then to mark all relevant pieces of text with this class.
> >
> >     So, perhaps it might be helpful - and would not be too diverse
> >     from the current usage - if the ${...} structure would
> >     recognize/refer to css classes?
> >     (or perhaps I missed sth. and there is already syntax for applying
> >     css class names to portions of the text?
> >        then please forget the rest of this post)
> >
> >     I think there is no css attribute 'class', so that it could not be
> >     mistaken.
> >
> >     Rules which one wins if there css attributes *and* css classes
> >     mentioned, could be left to the browser - I guess, the element
> >     formatting will override the class formatting.
> >
> >     There can be more css classes be assigned to one element,
> >     so sth. like
> >     class: class-a ; class: class-b ;
> >     or class: class-a class-b ;
> >     must be recognized by the parser.
> >
> >     Common css notation of css classes  is the dot prefixed to a class
> >     name,
> >     so if it would be easier to implement, one could
> >     simply use   .class-a .class-b
> >     but how to divide this from the element formatting in same structure?
> >
> >
> >     Instead of:
> >
> >       ${                         Example:
> >            CSS attributes (*)        ${text-align: center;
> >          }                             2{PicoLisp Documentation}}
> >
> >     sth like:
> >         ${                                    Example:
> >            CSS attributes or class names (*) ${text-align: center;
> >     class: hilited-background;
> >          }                                  2{PicoLisp Documentation}}
> >
> >     and defined in css file:
> >     hilited-background { background-color: black; color: white; }
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >     On 09.06.2018 17:40, Arie van Wingerden wrote:
> >
> >         Hi Olaf,
> >
> >         thx!
> >
> >         Per accident I stumbled on the possibility of adding a per
> >         elemnt CSS
> >         style, since it wasn't documented at that moment. I added that
> >         to the
> >         Wiki doc here: https://picolisp.com/wiki/?help
> >         <https://picolisp.com/wiki/?help>
> >
> >         Maybe there is a way to define classes etc. and use those.
> >         I guess Alex would be the one knowing best, since he invented
> >         this Wiki :)
> >
> >         For now I have no problem with it and I can change things very
> >         fast.
> >
> >         @Alex Is there a way to do so?
> >
> >         TIA,
> >            Arie
> >
> >         2018-06-09 16:20 GMT+02:00 O.Hamann <o.ham...@gmx.net
> >         <mailto:o.ham...@gmx.net>
> >         <mailto:o.ham...@gmx.net <mailto:o.ham...@gmx.net>>>:
> >
> >
> >             Hi Arie,
> >
> >             I do like your work on the documentation very much, no
> >         question.
> >
> >             No doubt about the code content, if there sth would be wrong,
> >             everyone would notice it.
> >
> >
> >             But colors and font sizes are, besides look and feel, also a
> >             matter of individual visual capabilities,
> >
> >             so it might be that one day (as the small picolisp
> >         community seems
> >             to be very faithful and gets older with the core :-) )
> >
> >             s.o. decides to change the coloring of the wiki pages or
> >         will let
> >             the reader change the font sizes themselves.
> >
> >
> >             Would there be a way to use css classes instead of styling
> >         each
> >             element individually?
> >
> >             It would make work easier on both sides writing and changing.
> >
> >             I don't know the wiki docs and if a css class syntax is
> >         provided
> >             and I'm very sorry that I did not look it up,
> >
> >             but your progress in work adds so nicely page for page, that
> I
> >             thought I have to say it now,
> >
> >             regardless that I do not have a solution or workaround to
> >         offer at
> >             the moment.
> >
> >
> >             Perhaps other reader of this list know, if there is already
> an
> >             easy way to express in wiki syntax what will result in sth
> >         like
> >             this  :
> >
> >             <p class="chapter-intro">....</p>
> >
> >             <div class="examplet-title">....</div>
> >
> >             to match the corresponding css (being defined in same html
> >         file or
> >             in extra css file):
> >
> >             chaper-intro { background-color: LightCyan ; }
> >
> >             example-title { color: MidnightBlue; font-family: "Arial
> >         Black";
> >             font-size: 20px; }
> >
> >
> >             Greetings, Olaf
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >             On 08.06.2018 15:59, Arie van Wingerden wrote:
> >
> >                 Hi,
> >
> >                 the last days I did a refresh of parts 1 .. 3 of PLEAC
> >         docs.
> >
> >                 At first I'd tried to get a nice reading experience by
> >         having
> >                 lightblue backgrounds for paragraph titles and yellow
> >                 backgrounds per example.
> >
> >                 Having done it that way, in the I found the reading
> >         experience
> >                 far from pleasant.
> >
> >                 Also I noticed that the H1 .. H6 markup of the Wiki
> >         are either
> >                 very big and/or faint. So I only use one at the top of
> >         a page.
> >
> >                 I now did the following:
> >                 - use a self specified font (CSS) for headings (not
> >         too big)
> >                 - copy the paragraph numbers originally used
> >                 - display the "problem description" from the original
> >         book on
> >                   a very faint color blue.
> >
> >                 Personally I think this is a great improvement. Now I can
> >                 continue with peace of heart with the rest of the
> >         PLEAC docs :)
> >
> >                 Hopefully this will make these docvs more accessible.
> >         Maybe it
> >                 is an idea if I use those headings on other pages as
> >         well? It
> >                 seems less awkward than those very big letters ..
> >
> >                 Best,
> >                    Arie
> >
> >
> >
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