[pmwiki-users] FAQ Page Layout
Benjamin Wilson
ameen at dausha.net
Thu Aug 4 07:05:57 CDT 2005
I should say first off I don't mean to come off so adversarial. I'm a
proponent of KISS and of not fixing what is not broken.
Your observations are valid--that it is logical to text-intent the
answer paragraph; that the Q: does not have to be bold; we need TOC in
the Core; and that we need multi-block A: markup.
I listed the sites only to show that if taken in the aggregate, we can
argue both points and personal preferences to the detriment of us all. :-)
I seek markup that is very malliable to the admin and very simple.
H. Fox wrote:
[snip]
> I doubt that. Let's agree to disagree about the probable quality of
> Google's UI people.
I think we both agree Google does very well. It's all that Python they
program, methinks.
>>## Q: and A:
[snip]
> Those are good, but the answer only spans one "paragraph". A second
> paragraph or a code block would need to be indented separately. In
> other words, this markup
>
> Q: How do I turn on the ?action=diag and ?action=phpinfo actions?
> A: Use
> $EnableDiag = 1;
> in your config.php file.
>
> produces the DT, the DD, the code block, and a paragraph. If you
> styled answers to be in red text, only "A: Use" would render in red.
>
> It would be better to have the answer be in one block.
Then(?):
(:Q Question goes here:)
(:A:)
Answer goes here.
(:Aend:)
DD works with each paragraph. Alternatively, we just DIV everything and
get the same result:
(:div class=faq:)
Q: Question goes here
A: Answer goes here
Q: Question
A: Answer
(:divend:)
Then use the Q:/A: markup to have Q display to the left where the
"normal" behavior in that display block is to text-indent.
> Certainly not. A Google search for [faq q] comes up with 17000 hits.
A lot of which are false positives, as I found out. :-)
>>"Show me a set of numbers that prove your point, and I'll introduce you
>>to my statistician who will disprove your point with the same numbers." :-)
>
>
> True, but I'm trying to figure out the best solution for the FAQ page,
> not win a numbers contest. Besides, my statistician had a higher
> grade point average than yours. ;-)
That's true: "A students work for C students." ;-)
> I'm hoping the FAQ page can dramatically improve before the 2.0 release.
Ben
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