User talk:Anomalocaris

Formatting

Sorry for my copypasta. The tags are used to render certain text non-italic in an otherwise italic context. Your change resulted in all the text appearing in italics, which is visually confusing. Hope that helps explain the markup. Eirikr (talk) 03:22, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Eirikr: I re-edited these pages using double-apostrophe markup for italics, which restored the lint error fixes I had done before, and also correcting many headings in spurious italics. Hopefully my edits didn't cause any new problems. Also, I recommend that you sign talk page comments with your user id and a link to your talk page. That's why I added those links in your comment above. Anomalocaris (talk) 10:48, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Re: signature, apologies, I had intended to sign, but apparently fat-fingered and got too many ~s, producing just the date-time. (Dunno why that's even a "feature", it's not terribly useful and just causes problems in my experience...)

Re: '', that doesn't do anything visually (copied from the rendered HTML and minimally munged for illustration):

居(i, formerly wi, “there is”)

As you can see above, the parenthesized comment is entirely in italics. This is not desired. The word "formerly" should be non-italicized, as it is not part of the reading. That's what the previous markup does did.

AFAIK, the {{compound}} and {{m}} templates have never respected '' in the values supplied to the tr parameter, which is why various editors, including myself, have sometimes resorted to using <i> tags.

I'm afraid your change doesn't fix things either, but digging into the details, it appears that the underlying modules have changed recently, affecting how the {{compound}} and {{m}} templates behave, producing all these lint errors and altering the behavior. I've had a go at the markup myself now, but it appears that the underlying modules strip out markup in odd ways, so I've only committed minimal changes outside of the template arguments. I've started a GP thread about this at Wiktionary:Grease_pit/2018/May#Change_in_behavior_of_various_templates_in_handling_of_"tr"_values_--_formatting_no_longer_respected.

‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 16:34, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

thanks from Sarri

Thank you @Anomalocaris for all your corrections (diff) at my userpages and your effort to teach new Users how to write! (at my age, I am a bit slow, but I'll follow your corrections). But I don't like <code><nowiki> because I saw that it changes the fonts. I hope you will forgive me for not using it -just at my userpages-. And thank you, for showing me how to make black links:) I was wondering for some while. I made notes of your advice. sarri.greek (talk) 12:24, 5 July 2018 (UTC)