> One of the things I really like about the old J dictionary is that the
page titles have the
> symbolic and English forms of the terms: e.g., "<title>-: Halve  -
 Match</title>", so that
> when I have dozens of tabs open on the dictionary I can use those to
choose a page
> using the tab-choosing mechanism in my browser."

That would be nice. But I don't know how to set the <title> text in the
generated html. I didn't know Moinmoin allowed it. If somebody knows how to
do it then please tell me. I'm just about to do an automated bulk update
and if it's a one-line addition -- that's something I can so-easily
incorporate.

On the topic of fancy effects with the NuVoc portal page -- I'm a
content-generator, not a Moinmoin engineer. It's lowest priority for me. If
somebody wants to produce a mashup to show us all, then I'll gratefully
leave it all to them.

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Peter B. Kessler <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 01/22/14 11:36, Brian Schott wrote:
>
>> Peter,
>>
>> I like your idea a lot.
>>
>> Going even further, but with tongue well in cheek -- but not trying to
>> undermine your idea, how about putting y arguments beside monadic verbs, x
>> and y arguments around dyadic verbs, u or m arguments beside adverbs, and
>> u
>> or m and v or n arguments around conjunctions. I wonder if this might
>> actually work on the backup nuVoc page?
>>
>> Btw, it is not clear whether you meant your idea to be only on the backup
>> nuVoc page, or on the primary nuVoc page, but I assume you meant the
>> former. Yes/no?
>>
>
> I meant on the page where you show the ranks.  E.g.,
> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NuVocWithRank rather than
> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NuVoc.  As a newbie, I might start with
> the undecorated page, but as I advance to where I understand (or am
> confused by :-) ranks, I can just change my bookmark for the new J
> dictionary to point at the one with the ranks.  (Don't do one or the other:
> make variants available and let user choose.  Then monitor the http server
> logs and ....)
>
> One of the things I really like about the old J dictionary is that the
> page titles have the symbolic and English forms of the terms: e.g.,
> "<title>-: Halve  -  Match</title>", so that when I have dozens of tabs
> open on the dictionary I can use those to choose a page using the
> tab-choosing mechanism in my browser.  The NuVoc pages have, e.g.,
> "<title>Vocabulary/minusco - J Wiki</title>" which means I have to learn to
> read yet another set of abbreviations.  "minusco" doesn't help me either
> when I'm writing code and trying to find "what's the symbol for the verb
> that Halves", or when I'm reading code and trying to find "what does -:
> mean".  (And when I have lots of tabs open, the titles are shortened to
> "Vocabulary ...", which doesn't help at all.)
>
>                         ... peter
>
>
>  On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Peter B. Kessler <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Would it make sense to put the ranks in place of the operands? Monads with
>>
>>> one rank on the right and dyads with one rank on the left and one on the
>>> right?  E.g., the line for Negate and friends would be
>>>   [snip]
>>>
>>
>>
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