Editing User talk:Jean Abou Samra (section)

== Some CSS code for <nowiki><samp></nowiki> ==

Jean, what do you think of adding something like the following

<pre>
body { quotes: '‘' '’'; }
samp:before { content: open-quote; } 
samp:after  { content: close-quote; }
</pre>

to the Wiki CSS for the sake of better conversion to Texinfo?  My reasoning is as follows.

There is a strong visual difference between <code><nowiki><code></nowiki></code> in the Wiki and <code>@code</code> in Texinfo output: the former produces typewriter text in a box, the latter uses just typewriter.  This is fine with the fonts used for Texinfo output except for marking single letters: in Texinfo it is better to use <code>@samp</code> for this situation, producing typewriter text in quotes.

On the Wiki side I would thus like to use <code><nowiki><samp></nowiki></code>, which <code>makelsr.pl</code> converts to <code>@samp</code>. However, it currently produces plain typewriter in the Wiki, which isn't ideal since the contrast to plain text isn't large enough IMHO.

Example: The letter <samp>s</samp> is marked with <code><nowiki><samp></nowiki></code>.  My suggestion: The letter ‘<samp>s</samp>’ is marked with <code><nowiki><samp></nowiki></code>.

An alternative would be to give <code><nowiki><samp></nowiki></code> the same appearance as <code><nowiki><code></nowiki></code>. -- [[User:Lemzwerg|Lemzwerg]] ([[User talk:Lemzwerg|talk]]) 17:15, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

:Done. Thanks for providing the CSS code. [[User:Jean Abou Samra|Jean Abou Samra]] ([[User talk:Jean Abou Samra|talk]]) 15:28, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

:: Ah, I missed that with this CSS code the quote characters are also in typewriter, which is not correct.  So please add <code>font-family: sans-serif;</code> to both the <code>samp:before</code> and <code>samp:after</code> block.
:: [I haven't found out how to display the quotes with the same font selected by the user to display the main font in Wiki – or is this fixed to always be sans-serif?]

::: Done. I don't know a better solution either. [[User:Jean Abou Samra|Jean Abou Samra]] ([[User talk:Jean Abou Samra|talk]]) 14:30, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
:::Thanks! -- [[User:Lemzwerg|Lemzwerg]] ([[User talk:Lemzwerg|talk]]) 13:48, 9 December 2025 (UTC)