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Technical advice : Template:Ellipsis
[edit]So how do I add the functionality I actually wanted without exponentially overloading the template calls ( a valid concern)? If gap is set, add it directly? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 19:03, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
- I would need to see the proposed specific change to offer advice. If you mean using the code from {{gap}}, that might work if you specified the gap width rather than allowing for user settings. But I'm not sure that it would also prevent line breaks mid-ellipsis, the way that the current code does. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:07, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
- It won't work in an 'efficient' way, to do the code from {{gap}} directly involves using tag: which is expensive. There is a CSS attribute break-inside:avoid; that might solve the line break issue.? How quickly can we have Module:Ellipsis to do the string expansion directly? (and support additional characters or multiple charcter strings, like -*- etc.. )? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 19:18, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
- That would be a question for the Scriptorium. But support for repeating characters is not likely to happen anytime soon. It's one of the reasons Xover has not created anything using repeated dots for the ToC templates to solve the current problems we have with the dtpl templates. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:22, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
- {{dtpl}} should according to some contributors be sealed in a lead lined casket 30 m below the ground for eternity... I'm not that harsh, but it will be a few years before the actual CSS support for dot leaders is implemented in browsers. :( ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 19:32, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
Balance up dent tags? There seems to be a mismatch that I cannot pin down. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 07:51, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
- For this page, the separate dent/e section was not needed since the following page opens a new scene with centered text. --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:06, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
Seemingly through a mismatched DIV, but attempts to affect a repair, just made things worse.. perhaps someone elese can sit down , and figure out what the interaction that's making it break is? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 09:33, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
- Caused by this page not having its block inside the section, but continuing text from a previous section where the block had been closed. --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:19, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
Index and pages need realinging with name on Commons. 12:42, 23 September 2025 (UTC) Thanks.ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 12:42, 23 September 2025 (UTC)
Marked for Match and Split, but the provided endpoint did NOTHING. Suggestions? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 18:07, 24 September 2025 (UTC)
- Match and split should not be used unless the source text is known to be IDENTICAL to the scan. The uploaded text is not identical, and also has lots of user= added annotations. Such annotated copies are only allowed once a clean copy exists; the annotations must be added to the clean text; and the annotated copy must be at a location that clearly indicates it's bee annotated. Since this copy is second-hand, and annotated, and no clean copy exists, the current annotated copy will have to be deleted. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:16, 24 September 2025 (UTC)
- Well I uploaded Index:The muses threnodie (Adamson, 1638).djvu which at IA appears tp be a soruce edition EEBO may have used. It would be a shame to throw out the entirity of the original efforts. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 18:34, 24 September 2025 (UTC)
The lps/lpe template doesn't seemingly understand italics. Perhaps you have a better approach? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 07:12, 26 September 2025 (UTC)
- The template is not working as intended. Either this use is too complicated for the template, or it has not been updated to deal properly with end-of-page hyphen removal. --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:42, 26 September 2025 (UTC)
Ppoem and long texts
[edit]I've seen you say here and there that ppoem is bad for long poems (long as in tens of pages). I was meaning to ask you, one of these days, why do you think so? It on the technical side does not have any more restriction on length. Browsers are very good at CSS calculations (you said The template has to look at all line lengths against the page display width
once, which is incorrect I think?). Though of course not liking it is understandable; just that you've said it doesn't work for these things. Cheers, — Alien 3
3 3 14:28, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
- Because I tried it on some longer poems, and it failed to center and format correctly. A failure in a practical test is why I think so.
- But I also will not use it for most poetic plays because it can't handle some of the formatting required for plays. I've mentioned to you before that all line wrapping happens to the same depth, even when the start of those lines have different indentations. When lines start at 0, 2, and 4em, but all wrap to 5em indentation, it looks wrong. It also can't handle right-aligned stage directions that wrap to multiple lines because the wrapped lines have that same issue of no control over how deep the lines will indent after the initial one.
- I've also come across a few instances when I can't explain something weird the template is doing. On the Cyclops copy I just finished, there's one section where the line numbers do not align with those in the rest of the page. There is also no satisfactory means to adjust the vertical spacing between lines. On Cyclops all the lines are sandwiched together in the original, so the template reproduced that effect.
- So between practical failures and the inability to perform certain formatting needs, I tend not to use it for anything more than a short poem (one to a few pages). --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:44, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
I see that you moved Index:Dungeons & Dragons System Reference Document.pdf to Index:Dungeons & Dragons System Reference Document v5.1 (2023).pdf. Should the styles.css be moved ? Or deleted ? -- Beardo (talk) 00:01, 31 October 2025 (UTC)
- I honestly don't know because almost nothing has been proofread, and I don't know whether the styles are used anywhere. @ShakespeareFan00: created the CSS page, and might be able to answer that question. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:49, 31 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Beardo: - Yes.. And any relveant Page: 's
Vote of confidence has been called
[edit]Hi, this is a courtesy notification that a vote of confidence has been called for your status as a sysop here on enWS. Because this call is a part of the annual confirmation your access to the sysop tools is not formally restricted. However, I must ask you to exercise caution when using the tools for non-trivial purposes until the period of the vote is over. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 09:56, 2 November 2025 (UTC)
- The vote of confidence has been closed with 3 votes of support and 9 against. Thus, I have closed the vote as "not confirmed". I have logged a request with the Stewards to disable your administrator access. I note that most voters are keen that we retain your editing skills and I must add my voice to this and hope that you will still remain with us in our task of bringing lost texts back. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 07:01, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
I'm sorry to see this outcome. I have only ever had positive experiences with you, as an editor and as an admin. BD2412 T 13:07, 1 December 2025 (UTC)