User:Martha Forsyth/Mom's Playpen

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(thank you, Peter!)


Testing
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Contents

[edit] Cyrillic grumble!

This time the Cyrillic did NOT work for copying to HotDog!!


Bummer!! Have you tried both copying when viewing "source," and copying from the page itself? Have you tried multiple web browsers? -Pete 21:02, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Yup - nuthin' works! Wonder why I thought it worked LAST time? Maybe I had it in a different font??? I doubt that, but...SOMETHING made the difference. --Martha Forsyth 03:36, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey, Peter - do I need to worry about breaking copyright because I copied a couple o' pieces o' code (below) from other Wiki "how-to" pages? If so, I'll just pull 'em off here and stash 'em somewhere else, but it's better to have 'em here 'cause I can SEE what they do....
Nope, take a look at the bottom of any Wikipedia page (or anything made by the WikiMedia Foundation) - you'll see a line that says: All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) You can click on the link if you want more details...but basically, it's saying "share and share alike." -Pete 02:38, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fun 'n' games

This is a sample of styling, for me to keep - these color names come from Background color.

This should cause indenting.

[edit] Another sample:

 Music sample:

[[:Image:|Bob Dylan "All Along the Watchtower" (1967)]] [[Image:|180px|noicon]]

16 second sample from Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower".
Problems listening to the file? See media help.


(Don't know how to add sound yet, though - oops, it happens "all by itself" - I copied this code from elsewhere.)
Align could be right, or left, but center doesn't work so well.





Oops - these non-free images & presumably music samples were removed, so it no longer works. See Wikipedia:Media_help and/or Template:Listen and search in the search box for Category:Audio_templates to find quite a list.

[edit] Web-safe colors

*000* 300 600 900 C00 *F00* *003* 303 603 903 C03 *F03*
006 306 606 906 C06 F06 009 309 609 909 C09 F09
00C 30C 60C 90C C0C F0C *00F* 30F 60F 90F C0F *F0F*
030 330 630 930 C30 F30 033 333 633 933 C33 F33
036 336 636 936 C36 F36 039 339 639 939 C39 F39
03C 33C 63C 93C C3C F3C 03F 33F 63F 93F C3F F3F
060 360 660 960 C60 F60 063 363 663 963 C63 F63
066 366 666 966 C66 F66 069 369 669 969 C69 F69
06C 36C 66C 96C C6C F6C 06F 36F 66F 96F C6F F6F
090 390 690 990 C90 F90 093 393 693 993 C93 F93
096 396 696 996 C96 F96 099 399 699 999 C99 F99
09C 39C 69C 99C C9C F9C 09F 39F 69F 99F C9F F9F
0C0 3C0 6C0 9C0 CC0 FC0 0C3 3C3 6C3 9C3 CC3 FC3
0C6 3C6 6C6 9C6 CC6 FC6 0C9 3C9 6C9 9C9 CC9 FC9
0CC 3CC 6CC 9CC CCC FCC 0CF 3CF 6CF 9CF CCF FCF
*0F0* 3F0 *6F0* 9F0 CF0 *FF0* 0F3 *3F3* *6F3* 9F3 CF3 *FF3*
*0F6* *3F6* 6F6 9F6 *CF6* *FF6* 0F9 3F9 6F9 9F9 CF9 FF9
*0FC* *3FC* 6FC 9FC CFC FFC *0FF* *3FF* *6FF* 9FF CFF *FFF*

--Martha Forsyth 03:36, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grey boxes!

Oh wow, and I just learned something ELSE! A space at the beginning of the line gives me those cool boxes:

--Martha Forsyth

ДИМИТРОВДЕН,“ПОГАНШЛЯКО” и “ВУЧЛЯЦИ”

По-късен есенен празник е Димитровден (26 октомври), който отбелязвал същинския край на лятото в селския календар. “Е, Димитровден си е Димитровден, минало е летото, тогай иде зимето вече. Димитровден—по-рано Димитровден беше се на осми ноември. Щом дойде Димитровден, които са били на работа като слуги у богати хора—по-рано, е-е-е, ората със имоти големи цанат по-бедни да дойдат да им работат. За година, за половин година, за . . . И тогава се сменят вече. Тогава той ели ще си излезне, ели требе да му придадат, ако щат, на заплатата. Ели некаква промена да има, за да остане. Ако не, ще си отиде. Пък той па друг ше си наеме некой. Като него.


[edit] Wiki code, tested 8/6/06, works - except for the last example]

This is a test of whether I can remember anything. Here are excerpts from Peter's notes:

[edit] Headings

If text is surrounded by "pairs" of equal signs, it is formatted as a heading. (That means it's big, bold, and will get included in an automatically-generated table of contents.)

[edit] Subheads

Surrounding it with "trios" of equal signs make it a subhead, which is just like above, only a little smaller.

[edit] subsubs

and so on. I have never ventured beyond four. (What does a = single = equal sign do, you might ask? You can use 'em, but the headings will be as big as the page title. I'd only use them if you really need a lot of levels of specificity.) Let's try them:

[edit] BIG Heading!

[edit] subsubsub
  • bullet
  • lists
    • A line with a leading asterisk will be formatted as a bulleted item. Two asterisks make it an indented bullet.
      • and so on. But I'd try to avoid using too many levels; if you do, think about how maybe you could use headings

instead of some of the bullets. (Bullets don't get listed in the table of contents.)

  1. In case you're interested in numbered lists, use a leading number sign. I don't usually bother with these though.


There is in fact a formatting thing of particular relevance to a "list of definitions." Standard procedure would be to precede the term defined with a semicolon, and the definition with a colon. The semicolon indicates a new line, and the colon indents.) You can put a space after the colon/semicolon, to make the code more readable.

Sample:

term 1
definition 1
term 2
definition 2


Now, here's another idea for your numbered definitions: Instead of a colon, use a number sign. (Basically, a colon, asterisk, and number sign will all indent. A colon simply indents; and asterisk indents and makes a bullet; and a number sign indents and auto-numbers each line. Play with it. You can mix and match in various ways.)


Here is a simple table for you to try, there's lots more that you can do but this much should be self-explanatory.

For example: (col. 1, row 1) this (col. 2, row 1
and: (column 1, row 2) this (column 2, row 2)


 ???: (wonder how you make a column wider?
 ???? ? (aha! WORDS will do it

but spaces won't)

that is (English)


Next big test: List in columns:

term 1
definition 1
term 2
definition 2
term 3 (col 2)
definition 1
definition 2

(Nope, that doesn't seem to work, comes out all in one column.)


[edit] Try:

[edit] Test stressed Cyrillic vowels

ю́ ма́ма
(testing to see if you can search)
ANSWER is no, not with ́ - but, making the stressed vowel bold does work, and is searchable: мама - but...is not terribly visible. Oh well.

04:24, 25 March 2007 (UTC):
How about bold and uppercase? мАма
or just underline? мома - well that one's a dismal failure, apparently underline doesn't work in Cyrillic! so it doesn't matter if it's searchable or not! (It is, so....hey Wiki folks, where's the Cyrillic underline?)*
04:52, 25 March 2007 (UTC) OOOooops, that LOOKED like an "underline" but it's code for an internal link! Scratch that one.


  • Duh, uhderline is JUST underline (<u>underline</u>)! 13:56, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Columns question

Maybe I need a Table (not columns), of three columns: word, Bg definition, English translation

(have to look at this in "edit", it won't accept line breaks and "nowiki" both)

header 1 header 2 header 3
row 1, cell 1 row 1, cell 2 row 1, cell 3
row 2, cell 1 row 2, cell 2 row 2, cell 3

Replace "header 1" and "row 1, cell 1" with the real words:

word Bg definition English translation
абанджия другоселец person from a different village
адет - (т) обичай, навик custom, habit