Talk:The Modern Art of Taming Wild Horses

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[edit] A question about [page] tag

That [page] link that wastes the text when in its middle... can it be hidden/avoided?

I could use the usual transclusion grammar, but I don't know how to use it for a section transclusion. --Alex brollo 08:17, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

One solution is to place the transcluded text inside a rudimentary table, with a little extra blank space on the left side where the “[page]” marker can show up unobstructed. For example, see The Wind in the Willows/Chapter 1 and this recent discussion at the Scriptorium.

If you want to transclude sections without using the {{Page}} template, it’s not difficult. Just use <section begin=name /> and <section end=name /> tags to mark the starting and ending points of the text to be transcluded, then use

{{#lst:Page name|section name}}

wherever you want to retrieve the tagged section text. For example, I see you have marked sections already on Page:The Modern Art of Taming Wild Horses.djvu/57. You can transclude them individually without using {{Page}} thusly:

{{#lst:Page:The Modern Art of Taming Wild Horses.djvu/57|c37}}

{{#lst:Page:The Modern Art of Taming Wild Horses.djvu/57|c38}}

kick the harder; and this will hurt them still more and make them remember the scrape much longer, and make it still more difficult to persuade them to have any confidence in anything dragging behind them ever after. But by this new method you can hitch them to a rattling sulky, plough, waggon, or anything else in its worst shape. They may be frightened at first, but cannot kick or do anything to hurt themselves, and will soon find that you do not intend to hurt them, and then they will not care anything more about it. You can then let down the leg and drive along gently without any further trouble. By this new process a bad kicking horse can be learned to go gentle in harness in a few hours' time.

ON BALKING. Horses know nothing about balking, only as they are brought into it by improper management, and when a horse balks in harness it is generally from some mismanagement, excitement, confusion, or from not knowing how to pull, but seldom from any unwillingness to perform all that he understands. High-spirited, free-going horses are the most subject to balking, and only so because drivers do not properly understand how to manage this kind. A free horse in a team may be so anxious to go, that when he hears the word he will start with a jump, which will not move the load, but give him such a

Hope that is useful to you. Tarmstro99 14:03, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes! Just what I needed. No I'm using three different transclusion tools, i.e.:

{{Page|The Modern Art of Taming Wild Horses.djvu/22|section=c4}}
{{:Page:The Modern Art of Taming Wild Horses.djvu/23}}
{{#lst:Page:The Modern Art of Taming Wild Horses.djvu/24|c5}}

The result is excellent IMO. Thanks --Alex brollo 11:47, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Different translations rules into it.source

I tried to post into it.source my previous Italian translation of this booklet, but policy of it.source is really strict about translations; they don't accept user translations at all. :-(

So, I'm thinking about publishing the translation into it.wikibooks, where original works by users are welcome. --Alex brollo 11:26, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Could you point us towards any discussion you had with the community there? John Vandenberg ^(chat) 02:20, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

See this help page (I apologize, I didn't found it before!): it:Aiuto:Niente_traduzioni_originali. My talks have no relevance, because this help page explains wholly the local policy about translanslations. --Alex brollo 11:28, 9 June 2008 (UTC)