User talk:Kurst

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Welcome to Wikisource

Hello, Kurst, and welcome to Wikisource! Thank you for joining the project. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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I hope you enjoy contributing to Wikisource, the library that is free for everyone to use! In discussions, please "sign" your comments using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username if you're logged in (or IP address if you are not) and the date. If you need help, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question here (click edit) and place {{helpme}} before your question.

Again, welcome! — billinghurst sDrewth 14:39, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tables[edit]

As the coding on Tables of Contents inside tables works well, though can get intensely ugly and confusing, we have done a bit of work to create {{table style}} which has much of the needed code, and hopefully with intuitive parameters. Also to note that we have a couple of global table classes "valign" and "valignb" that are useful to apply. Interesting work BTW. — billinghurst sDrewth 14:39, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for the welcome, the suggestions and the compliment. I am still trying to find my way around in wikisource so I can use all the hints and suggestions I can get. I actually stumbled over Le Plongeon's work while doing research for an article on the German Wikipedia about Naacal, a term which I found when delving into the Cthulhu-Mythos. Ha ha! Strange paths indeed. -- Kurst (talk) 05:03, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

paragraphs[edit]

Welcome to en.wikisource! I hope this tip saves you some trouble. The common practice is to ignore the indent that indicates a new paragraph (in justified text formats}, and use two returns instead. There is [a] way to reproduce that style, though using {{gap}} to do it is not recommended, but the simple and clean way is to do what we do at the wikipedias. An example of what I mean can be found at this 'Page', which is transcluded in this article. CYGNIS INSIGNIS 11:23, 9 May 2011 (UTC) [fix 13:13, 9 May 2011 (UTC)][reply]

Ah, I see. The indents/{{gap}}s were a misunderstanding of some of the instuctions on the help pages, but a closer look into the examples presented there made it clearer now. Thanks. -- Kurst 12:17, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Cool, the help pages do need improving. And I have to agree with Billinghurst about the fascinating text, digging around in the enigmatic precursors to Lovecraft's mythos is v. cool. Regards, CYGNIS INSIGNIS 13:10, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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