*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

@globcoco Line Break, Carriage Return.

Blank line at new paragraph. Looks nicer. See this example.

@penny

Wonderful Penny -- put the word out.

We now have a Pinafore Discussions forum here too!

Come and join us, reading is open for all, public. Commenting requires forum signup, quick and free.

https://discourse.qoto.org/c/PROJ/PINA/35

#Pinafore is the Best

@Sphinx

@Sphinx

>> I notice a lot of people using pinafore now

The Elite users know about it. 😋

@globcoco

Those applied specifically to the Discourse Forum at their home location.

New user restrictions, kind of harsh for a support forum for Internet active people.

@matt

@matt due to all the new user forum restrictions, done in multiple posts, uglier and more time consuming.

https://discuss.write.as/t/a-request-sent-to-wf-host-regarding-the-write-freely-instance-post-display-css/1524

@angedestenebres @tedomum

I took the question, with the screenshots and the same letter I wrote to you this morning, into the Write.freely Forums.

https://discuss.write.as/t/a-request-sent-to-wf-host-regarding-the-write-freely-instance-post-display-css/1524

cc. : @matt

Annoyances. At Write.as forums.

Intended post -- identical to this one : https://discourse.qoto.org/t/a-request-to-tedomum-regarding-the-write-freely-instance-post-display-css/348

Come on, @matt

@globcoco

For writers I would think LaTex is overkill, it's best for science and math publications. For us wordsmiths, markdown does wonders already.

@zleap

@angedestenebres @tedomum

Thank you -- It would be wonderful if it could be done. I had thought it was scaling the images and the page to a smaller width, but no, it seems to be the same 640 pixels as the individual page display.

Sadly that they vertically compress the line breaks like that. Merci!

@angedestenebres

Thank you, Ange, I just received the notification of your reply, appreciate your help!

@globcoco

@compass_straight_edge I thought of suggesting also, as a less time consuming alternative, you could write your posts and place them in other existign areas; the ycan stand by themselves in the Library for example, and people could comment if they got interested.

Firing up a new Forum area needs stamina and effort if we want to see it populated and growing.

@globcoco

the author has on-mouse-over effects included. Pretty, nice images.

But I really think the most important is the words, to keep them crisp and focused -- when I open a page directly, via it's URL, it looks superb, the view I had when I hit Publish.

I would like to have people see that same view.

And so far I have stayed away from changing any css, as I wanted to concentrate on content, and it presents quite nicely. There are some examples in a link, haven't looked sicne I wanted to avoid distractions when I was starting up, and so much was new already.

@globcoco

Yes! I even have a collection of snapshots of posts I make there; sometimes I attach a copy here so people can see them the way it should be.

@globcoco

>> it's true that it feels like in a blog post.

Yes -- and to come back here and look at the oh-so-poor presentation Mastodon makes of it.

We need Markdown, so bad. Really sad to look at posts here and compare to what I do elsewhere.

@angedestenebres

@globcoco

I assume you are referring to the message I sent this morning, regarding the visual presentation in Write.freely ? no reply yet on that case.

The ideal is to use a maximum width of 640 pixels, these will NOT be scaled down and are fast to load, we control the quality.

I alternate between PNG and Jpeg formats, whichever compresses an image better, I try for the smaller size always.

@angedestenebres

@compass_straight_edge You are welcome to bring in content and hopefully there will be interest -- if we get a conversation going, it feeds back and gets everyone more active and productive.

We have seen some great examples of that here this week.

@globcoco

>> It actually looks quite nice!

The forum post, I gather ? Yes, it can look exactly like a Blog, all the controls are there, and Markdown works wonderful.

Sometimes I write a full blog here, and just hone it up a bit more at Write.freely.

Or maybe you were referring to the cool post with the jet picture? I liked it too.

@zleap You can very easily upload an image to a Discourse post, no need to send it somewhere and copy URL.

And Copy and Paste works like a charm too. I used it for a couple of images in the post above linked.

A #Pinafore Forum post of the same content, with better formatting possible.

https://discourse.qoto.org/t/long-post-with-title-from-first-line-an-idea-and-suggestion-to-pinafore-development/350