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--[[User:Fab|Fab]] 04:10, 7 March 2012 (UTC) | --[[User:Fab|Fab]] 04:10, 7 March 2012 (UTC) | ||
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Probably I should have proposed the change first rather than just pushing it. I was trying to get visual consistency between the two block formats you exhibited above, and some new templates I was introducing, primarily [[Template:Cat]]. See [[User:Dubiousjim/Cheatsheet#Block_elements]] for some samples. As I informally browsed this wiki, it seemed like many pages just used the second, space-prefixed format for giving commands to enter---that is, the usage of [[Template:Cmd]] across this wiki seemed very incomplete. So I thought it might work best to have a presentation that was somewhat distinct but not jarringly so. That way, habituation to the [[Template:Cmd]] format needn't make it stand out so much when reading a page that says: | |||
type these commands | |||
(I can appreciate the merits of the other argument, though, that says it should stand out more when a wiki page doesn't use the [[Template:Cmd]], so that someone can more easily notice it and perhaps change it to do so.) | |||
What do you think might work better? Using a darker background, like the template had formerly? Using a different border? Just don't worry about the considerations I cite, and go back to the original? | |||
-- [[User:Dubiousjim|Dubiousjim]] 19:14, 7 March 2012 (UTC) | |||
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What was the reason that this template was changed? Now it look not much different than the standard mediawiki format for a line with a prefixed whitespace.
{{Cmd|test command}}
test command
test command
--Fab 04:10, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Probably I should have proposed the change first rather than just pushing it. I was trying to get visual consistency between the two block formats you exhibited above, and some new templates I was introducing, primarily Template:Cat. See User:Dubiousjim/Cheatsheet#Block_elements for some samples. As I informally browsed this wiki, it seemed like many pages just used the second, space-prefixed format for giving commands to enter---that is, the usage of Template:Cmd across this wiki seemed very incomplete. So I thought it might work best to have a presentation that was somewhat distinct but not jarringly so. That way, habituation to the Template:Cmd format needn't make it stand out so much when reading a page that says:
type these commands
(I can appreciate the merits of the other argument, though, that says it should stand out more when a wiki page doesn't use the Template:Cmd, so that someone can more easily notice it and perhaps change it to do so.)
What do you think might work better? Using a darker background, like the template had formerly? Using a different border? Just don't worry about the considerations I cite, and go back to the original?
-- Dubiousjim 19:14, 7 March 2012 (UTC)