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Authors can draw their own diagrams as text graphics.
Also linefeed chars should not be ignored for proper formatting.
Some times one simple diagram can save lot of text lines of description.
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The idea immediately below...
ASCII_20Annos
...describes more or less the same thing. [Wrongfellow, Jan 26 2011]
Works fine for me
http://img248.image.../worksfineforme.png
Monospace HB in Lynx. [nineteenthly, Jan 26 2011]
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The Halfbakery already has plenty of special characters, some more 'special' than others. |
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Someone call Nurse Ratchett! hippo's got out again! |
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As i've said before, all i want personally is the ability to do sub- and superscripts. I am slightly tempted by the idea of a square root sign but i can live without it. An interrobang would also be nice. |
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It would be nice if we could draw rectangles and diagonal lines. |
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This is the halfbakery, not the halfdiagramery. If you wanna hash something out that far go start a buisness loan application and leave us alone. Just a coffeeless morning opinion. |
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The halfbakery is already full of special characters - A-Z, 0-9 and punctuation nonwithstanding, there are also all manner of other legal characters available as disscussed elsewhere. The key to (more easily) getting these characters to line up and form a coherent image is less to do with what characters are available, and more to do with the level of control you have over placing them where you want. |
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Reconciling the desire of the individual user to fully define the layout of their annotations, and setting the global layout template for a well structured and clean-looking website is a tricky balancing act - coming firmly down one side or the other in terms of design is probably the best approach and concessions to the other side are probably best kept to a minimum. |
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See my link. No need to modify the HB at all to manage this. Just use the best browser (which i'm not right now). |
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A place where bread goes to rest. |
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//The halfbakery is already full of special characters// True. |
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[VJW] Help pages Esp. "In an account description, an annotation, and the main text of an invention, the sequence < br > will produce a single line break (as in HTML), and an empty line will produce a paragraph break. " |
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Some yahoo sites such as answers.yahoo.com allow users to draw text graphics very well. |
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I think we don't have to worry about all the browsers. Do it for one browser, say IE and declare it to be so. |
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//is less to do with what characters are available,// |
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HB does not display most of the characters required for drawing rectangles,and displays junk instead. I suspect it should not be too dificult to just display these characters. Alignment could be a different issue. |
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I suspect some kind of style flag called "display Unicode characters", "OR"ed to the style of static text box might handle display (of chars) problem. |
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It seems HB simply ignores series of spaces and replaces them by just one space. Is it for saving disk space/bandwidth ? |
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[VJV] It's nowhere explicit, but, to me, it seems we're
supposed to concentrate on content, and let the HB handle
the layout, typsetting, call it what you will. It's rather like
LaTeX in that respect. Even < br > is made available a bit
grudgingly, and we're asked to use it sparingly. Right or
wrong, WYWIWYM seems to be the Halfbakery philosophy. |
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where does it say use < br > sparingly? |
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[po] Well, not the Help page: I just checked. I think [jutta]'s
said this at some point, or else I'm confabulating. I can't
think of a search strategy that would let me check my
memory: you can imagine what happens when I search on "<
br >" |
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Here's a simple diagram [-] |
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Ha! Xen FTW! When you hone your venom good
things will happen my usually happily constructive
fellow baker! Hahah, just kidding really, this idea is
bad no matter who the f u r. |
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// let the HB handle the layout, typsetting, call it // |
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It is not about layout so much as about being able to draw simple diagrams using text graphics using special "characters" really to explain the text. |
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If only you could diagram how to use a diagram. |
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If only your text could explain your text. |
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