Last modified: 2014-10-19 22:52:26 UTC
Since the, otherwise nice, patch for the bug 3965 has been put in cvs, wikilinking ([[]]) of some words make them unreadable : the text is duplicated in a regular text and a blue link text. the blue link text has an offset of some pixels to the left. See the url.
The quick solution for this would be changing the font from FreeSans to mono-spaced one, like FreeMono or Andale unfortunately mono-spaced fonts have even smaller glyph coverage than FreeSans
Here is an example: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nuno_Tavares/Pending#Timeline I found this bug while searching before posting my own, so I'm glad someone already noticed it. I've search for "how to change the font to a mono-spaced one", but couldn't find any instructions. The documentation reads "No unicode is allowed yet. No font type can be specified yet". Is there any way to set it inline? - Nuno [1] http://infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/EasyTimeline/Syntax.htm#FontSupport
By posting here, I'd like to point the Mediawiki devs to this bug again. It seems that plenty of timelines on Wikipedia have become broken and unusable because of this, and it's a shame. I hope that you can find a way to fix this easily. Another example of a broken timeline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Speedrun#Timeline
(In reply to comment #4) > By posting here, I'd like to point the Mediawiki devs to this bug again. It > seems that plenty of timelines on Wikipedia have become broken and unusable > because of this, and it's a shame. I hope that you can find a way to fix this > easily. This is an extension, we didn't author it. The fix is waiting upon the person who did to...well, fix it.
(In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #4) > > By posting here, I'd like to point the Mediawiki devs to this bug again. It > > seems that plenty of timelines on Wikipedia have become broken and unusable > > because of this, and it's a shame. I hope that you can find a way to fix this > > easily. > > This is an extension, we didn't author it. The fix is waiting upon the person > who did to...well, fix it. > The person who did author EasyTimeline was not asked to review or comment on this quick and very unsatisfactory one line patch. Unsollicited warnings that the patch broke existing timelines were ignored. Unfortunately the better solution requires a patch for rendering package Ploticus, to feed Freetype font metrics to EasyTimeline, so that multi-segment texts (with embedded links, rendered in another colour) can be placed properly. This Ploticus patch, and a new version of EasyTimeline with a couple of hundred extra lines to make unicode code support work better, with font dependant line heights, multiple fonts support etc is waiting for implementation for months. Author has been unable to complete this task for personal reasons. After updating wikistats it will be foremost task to work on.
As previously mentioned, if this in-progress patch were provided to the public other people could help test and complete it.
(In reply to comment #0) > Since the, otherwise nice, patch for the bug 3965 has been put in cvs, > wikilinking ([[]]) of some words make them unreadable : the text is duplicated > in a regular text and a blue link text. the blue link text has an offset of some > pixels to the left. See the url. What URL?
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