User talk:Beebotbaba

Poem formatting
Please do not replace em spacers with colons. The use of the em-spacers are deliberate as they introduce a fixed-wdith indentation scaled to the display of the text. Colons are wiki-syntax and may not scale accordingly. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:01, 27 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Also, the colons in the ppoem template are scaled to 1em each, so I had attempted to replace them with the equivalent spacing. However, I'm not an expert on wiki markup by any means, so I might have misread something. Beebotbaba (talk) 06:58, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Also ppoem was deliberately not used. That template is till experimental, and is not replicating format in some cases. Your use of it on the poems in Songs of Exile is resulting in format that does not match the original. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:03, 27 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I wasn't aware. I'm new to Wikisource editing, and at least on my end, some lines in the transcription are too long for the page (i.e., they don't fit on a single line). Thus, when they break, they are left justified and it looks like the author started a new line even though that's not the case. I was trying to implement a hanging indent on those lines to make it clearer that it was just a continuation of the line. That's typically how I've seen it done in printed books and how I've formatted poems on other websites, and I was hoping to come up with a system that would make the text accessible across all devices. It seemed like the ppoem template was the most intuitive way to accomplish that, but I can respect if you'd prefer to go about accomplishing a hanging indent in a different way. Beside, that shouldn't affect the formatting on the poem when it's presented on a page wide enough to accommodate the transcription. It would only be a just in case when it comes to screens with smaller spaces. Beebotbaba (talk) 06:55, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Out of curiosity/trying to learn the ropes, is there a place where contributors note what formatting they're using on the markup? I tried looking for that info before starting, just so I didn't accidentally step on any toes, but I couldn't find it. Again, I'm new to this, so if it turns out to be just a leave well-enough well-enough alone sort of situation, I can follow that guideline. Beebotbaba (talk) 06:55, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
 * There is seldom a single place to look up information about what choices the editor made. The best approach is to scan through the work and see what consistent choices were made.  In this work, for example, I used straight quotes throughout, rather than curly quotes, which you seem to have changed on a few pages.  Wikisource allows works to be completed with either straight or curly quotes, as long as only one or the other is consistently used.  So if a work has straight quotes throughout, it should remain that way, and vice versa. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:03, 28 June 2024 (UTC)