28 May
2014
28 May
'14
11:07 a.m.
On 28 May 2014 at 10:52:45, Marius Dumitru Florea
(mariusdumitru.florea@xwiki.com(mailto:mariusdumitru.florea@xwiki.com)) wrote:
I'm used to quoting on JIRA and GitHub where the
result is close to
what we have right now.
Actually JIRA and GitHub are close to what we have on xwiki.org but not what we have on
XE. My point was to improve XE.
The display is minimalistic but it supports
nested quotes very well. Displaying quote symbols is a bit to much and
I don't think it fits all the use cases.
Possibly, yes. I’ve seen solutions that have both quotes and vertical lines but I can’t
find it again.
We could create a special CSS
class that adds quotes symbols and document it so that users can
write:
(% class="quotes" %)
> Once upon a time …
That’s a good idea. Having a {{quote}} macro is probably better though since you can also
have an optional “source” parameter and include it in the display. Now that doesn’t
prevent the quote macro from using a “quotes” class ;)
So to summarize, I’d agree to:
* Changing our style to be more like what we have on xwiki.org
* Creating a simple {{quote}} macro to use when the user wishes real quotes symbols with a
source
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent
Thanks,
Marius
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 4:35 PM, vincent(a)massol.net wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> It’s been raised by a user to me that it’s strange that when they use a quote (using
the “>” symbol) we don’t show visually that it’s a quote and that it seems to him that
it would make sense to show some quote symbols.
>
> Right now on XE it looks like:
>
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s119/sh/5eea60a0-8110-438e-a292-47d395c386bc…
>
> On xwiki.org (junco) it looks like this:
> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/References/Testimonials
>
> It’s true that the XE’s default doesn’t look very much like a quote… It can be
confused with a box easily.
>
> So WDYT about improving that in our default XE by having something either like junco
(is it clear enough that it’s a quote) or adding quotes symbols?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>