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User talk:Smjg
Check out Talk:Episode 4358 if you haven't seen it already :) Soo 02:49, 9 September 2007 (BST)
Thanks for your work so far, we're making much faster progress than I expected. Don't forget to change the shuffled version of the TTT, which for some reason the parser has got wrong almost everywhere. Soo 14:21, 18 September 2007 (BST)
Just to save you some time, I'm going to have all the easy arithmetic symbols (x, /, *) replaced with the proper ones (×, ÷) automatically at some point, so don't worry about fixing them. For conundrums, do you think we should put wrong answers in lower case? Again that can be fixed automatically. Soo 16:31, 18 September 2007 (BST)
- Yes, formatting the solutions is a tricky one. I tend to suppress brackets as far as precedence will allow, although I also rewrite e.g. "4-1+3" to "4+3-1" just in case. I also tend to write "4x3 + 6x7" to reinforce the tighter binding of x. It's difficult to formalise these aesthetic tweaks, although by all means have a go if you can think of a way to systematise it. About conundrum solutions, you're right - I meant to put a cross after MAJORITY, but I've deliberately been putting all solutions in caps. No big deal to change that. Soo 17:01, 18 September 2007 (BST)
- I notice you invented some notation for misdeclarations. We definitely need some but maybe something a bit more streamlined. Maybe "focal4 ☓" or something? I don't know, I'm open to better ideas. Perhaps we could integrate a "what is this?" link to answer the obvious question such disallowed words are likely to raise! Soo 01:16, 19 September 2007 (BST)
- Regarding the "what is this?" question, are you meaning a different link to indicate (a) using a letter not in the selection (b) giving a word not in the dictionary (c) declaring the wrong length (d) etc. It would also be nice to have an easier way of typing ☓, rather than copying and pasting from another example. Is there a way that I haven't found?
- Yes. MediaWiki markup supports HTML character entities, so you can use ☓. -- Smjg 22:21, 19 September 2007 (BST)
- Regarding suppressing of brackets, I agree. I've already been changing such things as (3×2)+1 to 3×2+1, but so far haven't changed something like 6×100−(8−3) to 6×100+3−8. I think I'll adapt to that. Drawoh 11:25, 19 September 2007 (BST)
- Regarding the "what is this?" question, are you meaning a different link to indicate (a) using a letter not in the selection (b) giving a word not in the dictionary (c) declaring the wrong length (d) etc. It would also be nice to have an easier way of typing ☓, rather than copying and pasting from another example. Is there a way that I haven't found?
- I notice you invented some notation for misdeclarations. We definitely need some but maybe something a bit more streamlined. Maybe "focal4 ☓" or something? I don't know, I'm open to better ideas. Perhaps we could integrate a "what is this?" link to answer the obvious question such disallowed words are likely to raise! Soo 01:16, 19 September 2007 (BST)
Dumper eating talk pages
Good point, I totally didn't think of this. I'll generate a list of all affected pages, it probably won't be that many. Soo 14:08, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
Tool
I don't know anything about D, but if I can run it on the server then that might well be useful. Charlie 22:34, 14 July 2009 (BST)
