Talk:Ars Magica Open Content Conversion Style Guide

Formula template

User:NeilNjae and User:Audrey_Azura thanks for {{Template:Formula template}}! I think standard templates are incredibly useful.

I don't think we should focus on recreating the printed book layout so much. I've tried a few different things in Spells, none seem to really work well. You can see the template and my attempt here Ars_Magica_5E_Standard_Edition,_Chapter_Nine:_Spells#Level_Guidelines for some of the complexities.

My concerns

1. We don't have the same column constraints as the text, so I think we should not stack the two parts, and have them horizontally next to each other.
2. I really don't think both parts should be bold, and I'm going to change this so the 2nd part isn't bold.
3. We need an anchor in the template so the Appendix II entries can link to it.
4. It's probably too soon to be thinking about text decoration, but being in a template it's easy to change, very cool.

Mataglap (talk) 10:12, 9 November 2024 (MST)

Navboxes

I've asked the admins about other Mediawiki extensions and modules, and they responded that they are looking at Navbox and its dependencies. In the meantime, what are everyone's thoughts about {{ArMOLsimplenav}}? Mataglap (talk) 10:15, 9 November 2024 (MST) The admins have installed a bunch of stuff, including Navbox, thank you!

{{ArsMnavbox}}

Mataglap (talk) 21:41, 10 November 2024 (MST)

I am not used at all to use Navbox (it is my first time being involved heavily in a wiki project ^^'), so sorry for probably the very basic questions, but I was wondering:

• Should I use this generic, OL content navbox on all content?
• Should we make specific navbox for each books?

Sidebars

What should be done about sidebars? So far, I've been able to easily incorporate the sidebars into the main doc for Chapter 9 Spells. Most of the time this has actually been better, since the sidebar content in Ch. 9 can be rather far from its related content. Mataglap (talk) 10:29, 9 November 2024 (MST)

In most cases, I've added them as subsections in the section where they belong. Quite a few of the boxes seem to be there to help with the layout rather than being genuine asides to the main text.

NeilNjae (talk) 06:30, 15 November 2024 (MST)

Agree. That might require a change of level header (i.e., L3 -> L4), since all the sidebars/ boxes/ inserts have been level 3 that I've seen, but hardly a big deal. For The Contested Isle I've been using

{| class=wikitable
|
===Title===
text

text, etc.
|}

which seems to be working out to both honor the published layout and also be as minimal formatting as possible

Mataglap (talk) 12:33, 15 November 2024 (MST)