Rosetta Code:Village Pump/Line breaks in templates
I've seen people go back and forth in Template:Works with, Template:Libheader, Template:Trans, and other example-level templates on whether they want the line break in the template or on the page. We should just make a decision and go with it. I vote for one line break in the template (not a <br/>) so that people can type something like this:
{{works with|libraryx|2.1}}
{{works with|language Y|3.4+}}
{{works with|OS Z|8.2}}
and it with show up like this:
Works with: libraryx version 2.1
Works with: language Y version 3.4+
Works with: OS Z version 8.2
If they type this:
{{works with|libraryx|2.1}}{{works with|language Y|3.4+}}{{works with|OS Z|8.2}}
it will show up like this:
Works with: libraryx version 2.1 Works with: language Y version 3.4+ Works with: OS Z version 8.2
Thoughts? --Mwn3d 21:00, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
- If you put a leading <br> in, you break (hah!) a lot of simple cases where there's only a single {{works with}} directly below a =={{header}}== line. That's the most important use case right now! While it would be nice to have fancy formatting between a sequence of these, it's far less important than making the basic case work right. Well, IMO anyway. –Donal Fellows 11:03, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
- Ok, what if we were to put a <div> around the content? Mwn3d's example would come out as:
- (block-level styling to the rescue...) It would also be trivial to add per-template CSS styling, for easier visual recognition of the data. --Michael Mol 12:10, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
- That doesn't work so well in the cases where someone's done {{works with|...}}<br>{{works with|...}} but I guess they're less common so we can just fix them. Reasonable trade-off. –Donal Fellows 13:56, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
- Done. Also, I added 'examplemeta' CSS classes to each, and an additional CSS class per template. --Michael Mol 16:19, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
- Damn, it took a lot of effort to go through and fix all the places in Tcl examples that were impacted on this. 440 times 30 seconds (average) is a best part of 4 hours… :-) I think I'm going to have to write some extra templates to cope with getting the layout I want in the case of complex multipart libraries. That's for the future though. –Donal Fellows 10:16, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- I saw you going through and cleaning up whitespace all over the place. I'd be careful about depending too much on the formatting of the metadata, though; it's subject to change. (Particularly as we move toward example-per-page) --Michael Mol 13:58, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- That doesn't work so well in the cases where someone's done {{works with|...}}<br>{{works with|...}} but I guess they're less common so we can just fix them. Reasonable trade-off. –Donal Fellows 13:56, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
You guys are awesome. Thanks for getting this fixed so quickly. --Mwn3d 18:24, 3 November 2010 (UTC)