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

[Bill F]

I've rewritten the MagicLink handler that was on beta.openwetware.org
to be a standard MediaWiki extension. It's now installed on
http://www.openwetware.org. The extension, OWWMagicLink.php, is
invoked using a hook in the MediaWiki parser. I'm in the process of
converting the entries to the new format.

Once all of the keyword and expressions we have discussed are
implemented, I'll add a new Special page similar to the one used to
edit system messages to allow OWW admins to add and modify the
supported entries. I'm completing the move of the Genbank support
today.

I'll provide a full list of the current supported entries when I
finish adding them to the server today.

I've incuded a few shortcuts for frequently requested symbols as well:

degc: °C
degf: °F
mu: μ
lambda:λ

These symbols may be awkward to use. The benefit is in not having to
use the panel at the base of the page to enter symbols.

I've  also added an entry for PDB lookup:

PDB 1234

Let's play it by ear. If these don't work, we can remove them. My goal
is to make as many as possible editable by OWW members rather than
programmable.

B.

On Nov 12, 2007 8:10 PM, Reshma Shetty <rshetty at mit.edu> 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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