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Subject: 
Re: FTX Questions..
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 18 Jan 2000 12:01:59 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:

> > 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.

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 just grin and bear it for now?


> > 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.

You don't 'hafta' do anything :) Maybe I'm thinking too far ahead! Once most of
the data is in there, then it can either be parsed into a database, or the
lines and tables can be tweaked to make it more pretty?

Richard



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  Re: FTX Questions..
 
(...) 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 ---...--- (...) (27 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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