[Open-graphics] News 11 draft

[Peter Lund]

On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 02:58 +0100, josephhenryblack wrote:
   
> Russell has been very generous in hosting and supporting us, but has 
> asked that we don't disturb other parts of his wiki which means we do 
> have a measure of freedom but only to a point.. There are several 
> options that all seem to climb the same hill..
> 

Yes, thank you, Russell! :)

> What changes are you thinking of for the css Peter?

The ability to say "use the style with the name XXXX for this piece of
text".  The browser can then pick it out of the CSS file.

Russell, if I do anything, I'll send a patch to the TikiWiki guys which
I hope they'll take, and set it up myself as a testbed on vax64.dk -- it
just requires PHP and a database, right?  It doesn't write to any files,
I hope.

> Doing some checking, it appears we can set a category a css theme or 
> alter the site css theme.
> http://themes.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php
> We currently use 3dblue.css
> http://wiki.duskglow.com/styles/3dblue.css
> If we used a custom theme it would apparently need to be placed in the 
> theme directory. Another option is that we use html pages for the 
> newsletters.

The latter is probably easier, markup-wise.  On the other hand, then I
couldn't have edited them so easily.

> Changing the red text colour to bold red indented, is basically covered 
> by using ";:~~#880000:__<blah>__~~"  for every quotation which 
> admittedly is a nuisance, but not too bad.

I had to fiddle with a bit more than that to make a best-effort of
handling indentations and bullet lists inside the quoted text.

>  I probably could get open office to automatically insert this.

I copied the text to gedit (the Gnome text editor), changed it, copied
it back, previewed it, changed it again, etc.

-Peter