Re: [Wikisource-l] Proposal: two desirable ParserFunctions
Alex Brollo, 14/12/2010 09:10:
> I can't "open a bug" (bugzilla is very confusing for me) and I don't
> know how to browse old proposals/requests, so I feel better to post here
> two ideas, just to let you revise them and - if you like - to go on into
> bugzilla.
>
> 1. I'd like to have a {{nbsp:string}} function, to replace all spaces
> with html entities into string. It would very useful to format
> table cell content where spaces must be avoided, while saving the
> original string.
There's a class for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Nowrap
>
> 2. I'd like to generalize {{#titleparts:string}} transforming it into a
> general str.split() function something like {{split:string|char}} where
> string is the string to split, and char is the splitting character). I
> use a lot #titleparts as a "string-splitter", and I can manage difficult
> issues with ease (i.e.: how to pass multiple values into a single
> parameter of a template) but sometimes I'd like to use a character
> different from / (i.e. splitting a list of page/subpage names).
This should be http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StringFunctions ,
which will never be implemented in Wikimedia projects.
Nemo
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Re: [Wikisource-l] Proposal: two desirable ParserFunctions
2010/12/14 Federico Leva (Nemo)
> Alex Brollo, 14/12/2010 09:10:
>
> > 1. I'd like to have a {{nbsp:string}} function, to replace all spaces
> > with html entities into string. It would very useful to format
> > table cell content where spaces must be avoided, while saving the
> > original string.
>
> There's a class for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Nowrap
>
> >
> > 2. I'd like to generalize {{#titleparts:string}} transforming it into a
> > general str.split() function something like {{split:string|char}} where
> > string is the string to split, and char is the splitting character). I
> > use a lot #titleparts as a "string-splitter", and I can manage difficult
> > issues with ease (i.e.: how to pass multiple values into a single
> > parameter of a template) but sometimes I'd like to use a character
> > different from / (i.e. splitting a list of page/subpage names).
>
> This should be http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StringFunctions ,
> which will never be implemented in Wikimedia projects.
>
1. Thank you Nemo!! Problem solved.
2. There are lots of string functions already implemented - lc, uc, lcfirs,
ucfirst, #titleparts... PAGENAME, FULLPAGENAME, BASEPAGENAME... - today.
IMHO a generalized *split* function would be great to extend just a little
bit the field of #titleparts to implement an efficient, simple way to manage
simple arrays. StringFunctions could fire fantasy - *split* function would
only increase efficiency to solve common issues.
Alex
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Re: [Wikisource-l] Proposal: two desirable ParserFunctions
2010/12/14 Alex Brollo
>
>
> 2010/12/14 Federico Leva (Nemo)
>
>> Alex Brollo, 14/12/2010 09:10:
>>
>> > 1. I'd like to have a {{nbsp:string}} function, to replace all spaces
>> > with html entities into string. It would very useful to format
>> > table cell content where spaces must be avoided, while saving the
>> > original string.
>>
>> There's a class for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Nowrap
>>
>
Nowrap is an excellent idea, I guess is would be extremely useful.
Nevertheless the goal was to solve the "dotted lines into index summaries
quiz" and I just found an alternative way to obtain what I needed, avoiding
nowrap and covering too the case of text longer than a single row into a
html box:
http://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Pagina_delle_prove#Ancora_puntini
I don't know if such a trick is "original" - it's so hard to discover
something new into wiki...;-) - but I know that I'm searching for it from
the beginning of my source trip. :-)
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