Re: background color experimentation...
Paul Flint <[email protected]>
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Greetings David Goodger, On Mon, 13 Feb 2017, David Goodger wrote: >> In your kind response, you make some interesting points. I will respond >> below. >> >> On Sun, 12 Feb 2017, David Goodger wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 6:53 AM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> 1. Easy one - make the background color of your choice: >>>> >>>> .. raw:: html >>>> >>>> <body style="background-color:#E6E6FA;"> >>> >>> >>> You don't need to use the "raw" directive for this. This can be done >>> easily via a stylesheet: >>> http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/howto/html-stylesheets.html >>> >> >> Very cool. For openers, I did not know about rst2html.py - Thanks. BTW >> nice style in the python code! I could learn a thing or two from you. >> >> That said, my use case is that I have about 100 DVDs (Source Linux Format) >> that I am putting up on the web. Each DVD has a page that shows the original >> front and back cover. What I wanted was that each of these pages display in >> a color of the season. My idea was to put together these DVD "base pages" >> using a bash script (I am a registered bashist. See http://visualbash.org >> :^) and cycling through some seasonally appropriate pastel colors to help >> the user differentiate between the various DVDs. >> >> The ".. raw" directive was wildly successful in allowing this page-by-page >> transition. Could I advantage myself with the css approach? > > You'd have to change the CSS for each page. Actually what I got to thinking about was a way to add a reStructuredText element which would query the css for the appropriate background shade... For example: SEASON BACKGROUND spring = a warming color summer = a warm color fall = a cooling color winter = a cool colr The Vermont version would of course, also contain: Mud Season Black Fly Season > I'm not sure how your raw hack works, since you should end up with > multiple <body> elements in your output HTML, unless you also changed > the template. This might render in browsers but it's not valid HTML. > Na, I checked. It over-rode .../_static/alabaster.css >> This experience has led me to the very disturbing conclusion that you could >> (and maybe should) write all web pages in reStructuredText. Should I seek >> professional help? > > No, I don't think so. :-) That's what I do as well, and what many of us do. > Hm... >>>> 2. Less easy one - Postprocessing the html to get the image to open in a >>>> new tab: >>> >>> This has been on the to-do list for a long time, but (a) it's not a >>> high-frequency request (yours is the first I can recall), and (b) no >>> obviously correct solution has been proposed. The to-do list has a >>> proposal to emulate the MoinMoin wiki's use of "^" as a prefix for >>> this purpose. >> >> Interesting bit of extended notation. I need to think if this would work... >> >>> If you want this for every image in all of some subset of your >>> documents, you could create a custom Writer deriving from the HTML >>> Writer you already use (or its Sphinx equivalent). >>> >> >> My fix for this was to go directly to the resultant html and patch it there: >> >> <start code> >> sphinx-build -b html ./ test ; >> sed -i 's/><img/ target="_blank" ><img/g' test/index.html >> <end code> > > That's very risky. It's adding “ target="_blank"” to any tag > immediately before an <img> tag. Are you sure that they are all <a> > tags, and always will be? > I go away with it... but I was not happy with this monster. >> (Note what we bashists lack in finesse we make up with gusto... :^) > > Reminds me of: > > Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll > use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. > > — Jamie Zawinski > > The same could be said about sed & awk. > I shall cherish this and use it with attribution not retribution... >> Obviously the "MoinMoin" notation would go a step towards a standard wiki >> markup language, and why not extend ourselves into this maelstrom? > > I'm not following you, and I'm a native English speaker. Many on this > list are not. Repeat in plainer language please? > Indeed I once was before I started to program. MoinMoin being of German provenance, it no doubt contains it's own markup syntax. How much to we adopt? That is my point here. >> Finally thanks for the Venn diagram, and I expect we should get together in >> Portland to rub antennae... Are you up in Montreal? I love that city! > > I used to live near Montreal, now I live in a suburb of the Twin > Cities of Minnesota. It's only slightly warmer here. > Nice, and... Kindest Regards, ☮ Paul Flint (802) 479-2360 Home (802) 595-9365 Cell /************************************ Based upon email reliability concerns, please send an acknowledgement in response to this note. Paul Flint 17 Averill Street Barre, VT 05641 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot