(1) will be most useful for private experiments before I air my new ideas. (2) less so, because there's a lot of <tt> out there, and I can't see <jcode> getting retrofitted to it.
Personally, I applaud jwiki's minimalism where typography is concerned. On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 2:24 PM, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: > In a comment on FSOJ, Henry suggested using a special font and background > for J inline code (which is in <tt> tags). > > In fact the <tt> tags already select a fixed-pitch font that should be > noticeably different from plain text, see the example in > http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Fifty_Shades_of_J/Editing_Guidelines# > Proofreading > . As for background, we felt that overall this would make the pages look > too fussy. > > However it may of interest that we will upgrade the wiki to the mediawiki > 1.31 LTS version after it is released next month, and this will allow us > two facilities: > > 1. You can create your own personal css. For example in our private test > wiki, the following sets a light grey background color for any <tt> tag: > > tt { > background:#ddd; > } > > 2. We can also create our own tag for J inline code, e.g. <jcode>. This > could default to <tt> but could be overridden in a personal css thus > allowing <jcode> to differ from <tt>. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
