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The look of Entries in Pliny
Recumbentman Started conversation May 8, 2012
1. I find the gap before the footnotes too small. You don't get any sign of having finished the main text. A horizontal line might help.
2. I also find the small indentation at the beginning of paragraphs unhelpful. It puts certain things out of kilter, for instance the statements in A2338616
Don't say optimistically 'It'll be all right on the night'.
Don't say pessimistically 'I'll never be any good'.
These statements are supposed to be on equal footing but don't appear in the same format, due to the indentation.
I hope this is the right place to voice these concerns. Good luck and well done
The look of Entries in Pliny
Recumbentman Posted May 8, 2012
How strange. I was looking (by mistake) at the unedited version of A2466100 and these gripes do not apply to the Approved Entry. Pardon my ignorance. I'm a newbie again, getting the hang of Pliny.
The look of Entries in Pliny
Pastey Posted May 9, 2012
It's not ignorance, it's discovery. At least that's what I keep telling myself
In Pliny entries need to be marked up properly in html, Ripley was more forgiving. It could well be that?
The look of Entries in Pliny
Recumbentman Posted May 9, 2012
I can see how I got sidetracked. When I open the first page of my Approved Entries from my PS in Pliny, I get a dot to take me to page 2. Only it doesn't; it takes me to my unapproved entries instead.
http://www.h2g2.com/user/U208656/approved_entries/
misdirects to
http://www.h2g2.com/user/U208656/entries/page/2
(And yes, there should be a page 2 of Approved Entries.)
The look of Entries in Pliny
Recumbentman Posted May 9, 2012
And that link above takes me to the 'you typed rubbish' page which is not a pleasant destination either.
The look of Entries in Pliny
Recumbentman Posted May 9, 2012
And curiously enough now it doesn't; it takes me where it says.
But the page two button (and also the fast-forward button) on http://www.h2g2.com/user/U208656/approved_entries/ still take me to Entries, page 2.
What is currently bugging me is that my most recent Approved Entry, the updated Ukuleles one A241057 doesn't appear on my listings. (The unapproved version A87736486 does figure in my Entries list.) As I have moaned elsewhere, this entry is entirely my work and bears no relation to the original by Eliza, which was seriously flawed, lacking, and uninformative
The look of Entries in Pliny
Pastey Posted May 9, 2012
Milla's got a list somewhere for bug reports and feedback, I think it might start growing.
The look of Entries in Pliny
Recumbentman Posted May 13, 2012
To be fair, my Ukuleles Entry doesn't appear on old hootoo either until you scroll down to the end of the 'Approved Entries' list, since they are put in order of date.
(That's not very fair either, to a brand new Entry ... )
The look of Entries in Pliny
Lanzababy - Guide Editor Posted May 13, 2012
I think that is a very good point Recumbentman, about the fact that when you completely rewrite a very old Entry, it appears with the original date. I know this has happened to an Entry I updated, which has a date on it long before I even joined the site.
There is a discrepancy between date first published, and date last updated, sometimes now of over a decade... hmmmm......
The look of Entries in Pliny
Milla, h2g2 Operations Posted Dec 26, 2012
I am ashamed.
I wasn't subscribed to this page...
Let me know if this problem remains, and I will log it now. If it has magicked itself away, that would be useful to know too.
The look of Entries in Pliny
Recumbentman Posted Dec 26, 2012
The problem still remains; I can click on 'See all Approved Entries' on my PS and get the latest-dated 15 (which does not include my recent rewrite), but then clicking on the '2' or '3' or '>' or '>|' takes me to that page of Entries, not of Approved Entries.
The look of Entries in Pliny
Milla, h2g2 Operations Posted Dec 26, 2012
I don't have enough edited entries myself, but I checked your page, and have verified that this is indeed still broken. Have logged it.
The look of Entries in Pliny
Pastey Posted Dec 28, 2012
Kinda handy this page came back up in my conversations, I'm looking at that code at the moment, or rather it's high up.my list for a different reason.
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The look of Entries in Pliny
- 1: Recumbentman (May 8, 2012)
- 2: Recumbentman (May 8, 2012)
- 3: Pastey (May 9, 2012)
- 4: Recumbentman (May 9, 2012)
- 5: Recumbentman (May 9, 2012)
- 6: Recumbentman (May 9, 2012)
- 7: Pastey (May 9, 2012)
- 8: Recumbentman (May 13, 2012)
- 9: Lanzababy - Guide Editor (May 13, 2012)
- 10: Milla, h2g2 Operations (Dec 26, 2012)
- 11: Recumbentman (Dec 26, 2012)
- 12: Milla, h2g2 Operations (Dec 26, 2012)
- 13: Pastey (Dec 28, 2012)
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