#1 Considering a few more modifications to the board....
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 10:09 pm
In addition to the custom year stars code that sits half finished on my hard drive, I am considering adding a few more markup options.
One would be [tt]...[/tt] which would output the text in a typewriter like font, just like the <tt> tag in HTML. While not useful much of the time, it would be a trivial addition, and I would find it useful when explaining a simple line of code or something, something too small to warrant using the full blown code tags.
Aside: I would also like syntax highlighted code tags, but that is alot of work and I am not likley going to do it any time soon.
The other things are like you see in the Dummies book series: a block of text, similar to a quote tag, but can have different colors and rather than a Quote: label, it would have possibly an icon off to the side, again just like the Tip boxes in the Whatever for Dummies books.
I think that would be useful in the tutorials I am writing in C&G, and other people might find that useful too.
Lastly, I would like to eventually write a Calculus tutorial too, and that is something that would be significantly easier with a math markup reader, to display things like the integration and summation symbols. Such a mod already exists; all I would have to do is install it and possibly do some minor customizations. This was proposed over at SDN but it never went through, and I think it would be useful here at times too.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Do you think it will be worth the effort?
One would be [tt]...[/tt] which would output the text in a typewriter like font, just like the <tt> tag in HTML. While not useful much of the time, it would be a trivial addition, and I would find it useful when explaining a simple line of code or something, something too small to warrant using the full blown code tags.
Aside: I would also like syntax highlighted code tags, but that is alot of work and I am not likley going to do it any time soon.
The other things are like you see in the Dummies book series: a block of text, similar to a quote tag, but can have different colors and rather than a Quote: label, it would have possibly an icon off to the side, again just like the Tip boxes in the Whatever for Dummies books.
I think that would be useful in the tutorials I am writing in C&G, and other people might find that useful too.
Lastly, I would like to eventually write a Calculus tutorial too, and that is something that would be significantly easier with a math markup reader, to display things like the integration and summation symbols. Such a mod already exists; all I would have to do is install it and possibly do some minor customizations. This was proposed over at SDN but it never went through, and I think it would be useful here at times too.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Do you think it will be worth the effort?