User:Martha Forsyth/Mom's Playpen

nother place

(thank you, Peter!)

Testing

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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)

Fun 'n' games
This is a sample of styling, for me to keep - these color names come from Background color.
 * This should cause indenting.

Another sample:
(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 Media_help and/or Template:Listen and search in the search box for Category:Audio_templates to find quite a list.

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.

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:

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.)

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

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: = BIG Heading! =

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

Next big test: List in columns:

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

= Try: =

Test stressed Cyrillic vowels
ю&#769; ма&#769;ма

(testing to see if you can search)

ANSWER is no, not with &#769; - 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 ( underline ) !  13:56, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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)

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