[OWW-SC] EditTools helper enabled (Greek characters, etc).

[Tom Knight]

I added some comments.  Has anyone else noticed that the way to get  
to a talk page is to click on the "discussion" link at the top of the  
page?  I find this rather unnecessarily confusing.  The name of one  
or the other should be changed.


On Nov 12, 2007, at 8:10 PM, Reshma Shetty wrote:

> Bill and I've modified the set of characters available at the  
> bottom further.
>
> We've stripped out many of the symbols and have added some that are
> particularly relevant to biological research like those for
> concentration, volume and temperature.  (This is in keeping with what
> Tom was suggesting.)
>
> Check out any edit page or modify the list at
> http://openwetware.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Edittools
> (Thanks Bill!)
>
> Leave comments at http://openwetware.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Edittools
>
> -Reshma
>
> On Nov 10, 2007 7:59 PM, Bill F <bill.altmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Entering the HTML tag for those characters works. The character  
>> tags for
>> them are as follows:
>>
>>     Mu: &micro;
>>     Degree: &deg;
>>
>> This is a little better than the use of the table at the bottom of  
>> the form.
>>
>> An alternative that isn't any shorter than the above expression  
>> would be by
>> using an extension I modified:
>>
>>     {{deg:}} or {{mu:}}
>>
>> I've enabled this via an extension in beta. It's pretty clumsy.  
>> Using this
>> method, we can add any tags of interest. But it's pretty ugly.
>>
>> The curly braces tell the parser this is a parser extension, while  
>> the ":"
>> is present to allow arguments to be appended.
>>
>> It's possible to make this more compact if needed, but this is what's
>> immediately possible,
>>
>> We can directly augment the parser if needed if you need a more  
>> compact way
>> to label either of them.
>>
>> If anyone else has suggestions, let me know.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 10, 2007 5:01 PM, Tom Knight < tk at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
>>> On our pages, the micro (mu) and degree sign are so common that I
>>> think they deserve special attention.  I don't have a clear idea of
>>> what to do, but this feature (for me) does not help. It's easier to
>>> type &mu; and &deg;
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 10, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Bill Flanagan wrote:
>>>
>>>> We've added a feature to help displaying special characters and
>>>> character string to OpenWetWare documents. If you've used this
>>>> feature in Wikipedia, it now works exactly the same in OpenWetWare.
>>>>
>>>> When you edit any page or choose to download a new file,
>>>> OpenWetWare will now display a list of characters and tags at the
>>>> base of the page. By clicking on any of these characters or tags,
>>>> the ascii code will be inserted into the page being edited at the
>>>> current cursor location.
>>>>
>>>> The range of special sequences includes the following:
>>>>
>>>> MediaWiki Markup
>>>> Greek
>>>> Cyrillic
>>>> Other special characters.
>>>>
>>>> All of the current special tags supported by OpenWetWare will be
>>>> included in the list.
>>>>
>>>> If there are special vocabularies or character sets anyone wants
>>>> add to this list, please consult with me. We can add them quickly.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Bill Flanagan
>>>> OpenWetWare.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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