On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 9:05 PM, Richard Grevers said:
I think that what would be good here would be a flag
on the TOC code,
which if set in the page would instead generate a horizontal linkbar of
the type A | B | C | D... which is commonly used in such circumstances.
I have manually updated dozens of lists to remove the vertical alphabetical toc and
replace it with a horizontal one. But there are hundreds of lists. A more automated way is
a good idea. However many pages have the first heading that is more than one character,
e.g. "0-9" and so this could not be done completely automatically. Some also
have a "See also" at the end. (The same thing applies to years and decades, e.g.
"List of years in art")
Maybe we could use something similar to __NOTOC__, such as __HOTOC__ for horizontal toc?
A minor point is if we did it this way, which format would we use? e.g.
A | B | C ... or A - B - C ... or A, B, C ...
1990s | 1980s | 1970s ... or 1990s - 1980s - 1970s ... or 1990s, 1980s, 1970s ...
Which is the most common or looks the best? And is this a good idea in the first place
(i.e. not try to totally automate it)?
Michael Richards (Nanobug)
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Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] No numbers for single letter headings
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 23:28:12 +0100, Chris Seaton <chris(a)chrisseaton.com>
gave utterance to the following:
I have enabled numbered headings but I think this
should be bypassed
when the heading is just a single letter (used quite a lot in
alphabetical lists) as it looks quite strange. See
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases if you have headers
enabled to see what I mean.
Actually, perhaps it would be better to put a colon between the number
and header. "6: F" instead of "6 F", which looks like a school class
name.
Thoughts?
I think that what would be good here would be a flag on the TOC code,
which if set in the page would instead generate a horizontal linkbar of
the type A | B | C | D... which is commonly used in such circumstances.
--
Richard Grevers
Between two evils always pick the one you haven't tried
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