[pmwiki-users] want opinions on a new cookbook recipe format

[Neil Herber]

At 2006-03-06  12:46 PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
>On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:20:55PM -0500, Neil Herber wrote:
> > At 2006-03-06  11:03 AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
> > >I'm thinking it would be a good idea to evolve the formatting of
> > >cookbook recipes slightly, so that instead of the "Question / Answer"
> > >preamble at the top of the page, we have a section that reads more like:
> > >
> > >    Summary:  short description of the recipe
> > >    Status:
> > >    Prerequisites:
> > >    Maintainer:
> > >    Categories:
> > >    Votes:
> >
> > I like this a lot. I would like to see a bit more emphasis for this
> > section - perhaps a tinted background or bolded headings or just use
> > the :term:definition markup?
>
>Pick a recipe and propose a modification...?  :-) :-)
>
>(I'm inclined to go with a tinted background; :term:definition suffers
>from the problem that browsers tend to render terms and definitions
>on separate lines.)

Hmmm. The phrase "Left as an exercise for the student" springs to mind. ;-)

However, please see the following for my proposal.
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/RandomQuote

I used a light green tint, but a light gray would be just as 
effective (or annoying, depending on your perspective).



Neil

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