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Re: FTX Questions..
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 18 Jan 2000 03:18:01 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Richard Franks writes:
> First off - something simple :) How do you get the small red font as in
> <http://www.lugnet.com/loc/us/ca/sf/> ?

Oh, that page (and still a few others) still have an older obsolete form of
links attached to them, so the display routines see that there's that data,
and they display them that way (the pre-FTX way).

If you use

   Links & Resources
   -----------------

you can achieve something similar, although not as compact.


> If you look at <http://www.lugnet.com/loc/uk/?p=shops-by-area> you'll
> probably see my other problems - is there any way, or is there any way
> planned to get rid of the embedding lines? Maybe adding a character to the
> beginning <<!/loc/uk/blah/snorf>> ?

Hmm, not sure yet on that; the lines are connected to the dot on the right
which is supposed to help highlight the transclusion and provide a link to
the transcluded document.  Just as the main Spotlight page transcludes the
dailies to make a meta-page.


> Also, the tables are nearly impossible to read at present - being able to
> define column widths in tabs or percentages would be great! Being able to
> add colour to the columns would be nice too, but nowhere near as important
> (readability wise) as having uniform widths!

I'll hafta re-do the way tables work from the ground up, so that they're tied
in with an HDB or something, in order to fix this right.

--Todd



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  Re: FTX Questions..
 
(...) I'm definately agreed that you want the lines sometimes - they work well on the Spotlight pages, but not so well on my shopping pages? Or maybe if it's all going to be put into a database that will format everything nicely anyway, I should (...) (27 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  FTX Questions..
 
First off - something simple :) How do you get the small red font as in (URL) ? I just get a blank page for (URL), but it probably is just a permissions thing as I can see (URL) fine! Otherwise I'd find out for myself - also I can't seem to find it (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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