On 8/14/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/14/06, Sabine Cretella sabine_cretella@yahoo.it wrote:
How I work on the nap.wikipedia? Well there are two things to it: I first write in OOo or Word, then I subsitute all '' with the numeric code with search and replace and I avoid to create wiki-links, because I am simply very annoyed (better I remain with nice words...) to copy and paste it here and there. Or I write the article on the wiki and then substitute the parts needed - both ways require loads of time more.
This kind of thing interests me greatly. I just did some Google searches for Neapolitan OR napolitano with alphabet OR spelling OR orthography OR apostrophe OR quote. I couldn't find anything. So instead I'll ask here in which kinds of cases this occurs. Does it represent a certain sound or omitted letters?
Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)
Would it not be possible to add some javascript to the monobook.css at nap to do some substitution? Pick some character sequence that users will use to enter non-italic text (or even better, a character sequence for italics, and make '' natural). Then, when they go to edit text, substitute all the text as it apperas from the wiki. When they save, substitute it back. So, two solutions:
I think using // instead of '' would be cleaner for italics, but would be harder to implement, as you would need to substitute as follows:
- When the edit box appears:
- Substitute '' (when not enclosed in <nowiki>...) with //.
- Substitute all instances of '' '' and '' with ''
- When saving:
- Substitute all non-escaped '' with ''
- Susbitute all // with ''
A bit of tricky parsing involved, I suspect...
Maybe something similar would work for | for Germans?
The problem with simply saying "this punctuation is no good because there exists a language for which it doesn't work" is that it's probably next to impossible to find a syntax that is acceptable for *all* languages, present and future.
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