On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 21:25 -0500, Mitchell Mebane wrote: > Scott Ritchie wrote: > > Our wiki software needs a major update, especially as we start to expect > > users to actually read it. > > > > For instance, look at the FAQ page: > > > > Then, click on edit and see how it should look. From what I can tell, > > there are a few obvious errors: > > > > 1) The wiki software is completely ignoring line breaks. I could hit > > return 4 times and the HTML rendered would be on subsequent lines, > > without a break or paragraph tag between them. > > 2) For some completely strange reason, if you make a list item that > > includes a link then the entire list item will be in a smaller font. > > This makes for extremely weird and inconsistent lists when a link to > > another wiki page is included in some, but not all, of the items. > > > This is due to http://wiki.winehq.com/wiki/winehq/css/screen.css > > #pagebar { > font-size: 1em; > } > > Making links overrides this style, and the preview page does not have > this problem, because the content of the preview page is not enclosed in > the #pagebar element. > > Not sure about the others yet. Could you elaborate on #3 a bit more? > > --Mitchell Mebane > > > 3) Header text is almost impossible to figure out right, and there is > > absolutely no standard of what we should do. > > > > Is there a reason we chose the software we did? Would it be too hard to > > migrate to something else, or at least fix the display bugs? > > > > Thanks, > > Scott Ritchie
Regarding header text: do I use 1 = sign, or two, or three, or four, or even five? Pages vary considerably around the entire wiki, though this might be our fault as authors rather than the software. Thanks, Scott Ritchie