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[StrongED] Re: Manual - opinions?
In article <56b1c295b1tim@xxxxxxxxx>,
Tim Hill <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <56b18eeaacLists@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Richard Torrens (lists)
> <Lists@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've spent much time thinking about how to present Advanced S&R.
> > So does http://diy.torrens.org/RO/StrongED/man/Prep/advanced_sr.html
> > work - as far as it goes?
> > In particular how many examples are sensible in the text - or should
> > they be on separate pages? One already is - under Counter.
> > It's a complicated subject which I'm tring to make simple in concept!
> I can't really comment too much on advanced S&R as I use it so
> infrequently, it's me who needs a manual on it so I'd be in favour of
> lots of examples. Maybe have one or two on the main page with "more..."
> leading to another.
Good - that is exactly what I am doing. Maybe I should pick out the links
to longer examples.
> I once needed to delete entire lines containing one phrase (e.g.
> "wibble") so that would be the sort of example I would be looking for:
> Search: $*"wibble"*$
> Replace: [blank]
Yes relatively simple examples are useful.
Advanced S&R concepts can be explained simply - but working out how to
apply them to what you want to do can be complicated.
> In the first line, I find the statement "Search and Replace is on key F4"
> a bit confusing, surely "Search/Replace is obtained with <Shift><f4>".
Error. Would correct apart from the fact I also have made changes in that
page.
> I do use StrongED to help manage a huge website, so here's my 2p on the
> HTML. I have made a few tweaks to improve the layout. See example later.
> Changed declaration to HTML5. Easier than 4. Less strict.
> All tags now lower case. Most of them were already.
> Moved language to HTML tag.
> Moved TITLE tag in HEAD and re-ordered its content for narrow tabs on
> other browsers.
> Changed content-type charset declaration to UTF-8.
> Added '?new' to end of sylesheet URL to encourage (some) browsers to
> reload it each time. Now a relative link to enable these tweaks.
> Added /HEAD and BODY tags and BODY has a familiar CSS background-image.
> Added CSS class 'container' to limit width, and give padding and margins.
> Generally tidied up paragraphs throughout.
> Changed background colour examples to SPANs with padding.
> Indented major items and split some lines to make things easier to
> read/find things in the HTML.
> Changed a whole load of < and > to < and >
> Tidied up lots of id declarations.
> As they are not headings, I changed the final list contained in many
> H2.../H2 tags, to an unordered list with CSS to remove the usual list
> blobs and make the text bigger.
> H1 - H6 given a sans-serif font.
> Removed CSS/HTML4 images, replaced with W3C working links.
Useful comments. Thanks. Your html/css skills are better than mine, I
think.
> http://timil.com/RISC_OS/stronged-manual/torrens.htm
The problem here is that I am working on that page. will contact you
off-list.
> The CSS added is at the end of this file:
> http://timil.com/RISC_OS/stronged-manual/strong.css
> HTH.
> T
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