Hi Andreas,
Q: What are the rules for using [...]? How does one
escape from the
Smalltalk block interpretation if that is needed?
use \[ and \] to escape the block-characters. Generally the backslash
can be used to escape any of the wiki tokens like \*, \+, \=, ...
This looks good when rendered, but once the page is
being edited
again, it will revert (!) to using <> instead of < and > and
thus, when saved the line vanishes in a puff of HTML-logic.
Q: Is this a known bug? Or is there something I'm doing wrong?
Yes, this is a known problem. I don't know of a proper solution, maybe
one could try to double encode the text in text-areas. However I am not
sure, if there is a propre way to do this?
c) It looks like IE has significant problems rendering
some of the CSS
properly. The most annoying part seems to be the header where the
separators are just dropped. For example, check out
www.seaside.st
with both IE and Firefox; you will see something like:
Q: Is there *any* known workaround for this problem? To me, the
resulting pages look like garbage in IE without the separators.
The only workaround I know of is not to use CSS for :before and :after
selectors and to render the vertical bars manually in the XHTML. Of
course this is less flexible to adapt to different layouts, but should
works in most browsers.
Or maybe it is enough to define the margins between the entries
slightly bigger?
http://www.seaside.st/Documentation/GeneratingHTML/
the result is
pretty much garbage regardless of browser used. Firefox will only
print a single page; IE will do page breaks in the middle of text
lines and both will cut off part of the page.
Q: Is this an issue with the CSS used or with Smallwiki? Are there
strategies in Smallwiki or CSS to address this problem?
Indeed, this is strange problem with the CSS of seaside.st, I have to
talk with the designer ;-) It works perfectly with the default CSS
coming with SmallWiki, have a look at
http://kilana.unibe.ch/
Maybe for printing you want to define a different CSS anyway?
e) The Seaside Smallwiki at
www.seaside.st has a nice
little
navigation bar on the left which I would like to use too.
Q: Is this a standard feature of Smallwiki? If so, how does one use
it? If not, who do I have to bug to get the code? ;-)
This is the Menu-Component: Log in as admin, go to Template > Templates
and add the template Menu. Configure the look of the newly added
component in Template > Settings. Attached you'll find the settings we
are using on seaside.st to get the desired effect.
Cheers,
Lukas
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Lukas Renggli
http://www.lukas-renggli.ch