Also, related to the math example, I think something pretty cool for maths
for example, would be support of semantic annotations like the one
described in this Book :
2017-08-22 15:22 GMT+02:00 Thomas Douillard <thomas.douillard(a)gmail.com>om>:
(Please forget the precedinng message)
I’m aware of this syntax. There is issues with this.
One is that we can’t easyli apply a CSS on it. On tables, it’s possible to
add «|class=wikitable» is possible, not in dls. I encountered cases where
people did not like the display style and replaced by bulleted list and
bold where semantically a dl would have been better.
One other problem is that it’s hard to differentiate a multiline
definition from multiple définitions
An example of a template that could be a usecase, in math :
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Th%C3%A9or%C3%A8me
Or do you ask for some 'technical'
nudging to 'enforce' a format?
Yes, technical solution would help of
course, a more visible UI trick to
build glossaries would help. But I think a more fundamental thinking about
current status of glossaries or other stuffs with a legend/definition would
be a good thing to work with this largely unknown wikitext and HTML
feature. «:» is known … to indent, and «;» is knows … to bolden. But it’s
not understood as a way to build a list of answer to a post …
2017-08-22 15:09 GMT+02:00 Thomas Douillard <thomas.douillard(a)gmail.com>om>:
I’m aware of this syntax. There is issues with
this.
One is that we can’t easyli apply a CSS on it. On tables, it’s possible
to add «|class=wikitable» is possible, not in dls. I encountered cases
where people did not like the display style and replaced by bulleted list
and bold where semantically a dl would have been better.
An example o
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Th%C3%A9or%C3%A8me
2017-08-22 13:47 GMT+02:00 Andre Klapper <aklapper(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 12:22 +0200, Thomas
Douillard wrote:
Definition lists are underused.
People usually prefers to format themselves to fit their preferences
than to use the "; :„ syntax, or custom templates (theorem, examples,
…)
It’s not without good reasons : it’s kird of unaesy to do multilne
definitions, they can’t be easily styled, the imbrication beetween
dls and ul and on is tricky once you want to do something elaborated.
Yet using dls could allow us to better annotate semantically our
articles. Any idea on how to make their usage easier and to style
them ? We can style tables, lists are not as easy to style.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Glossaries ?
Or do you ask for some 'technical' nudging to 'enforce' a format?
andre
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