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I have no idea what this says:

All gravity from Earth, however big stress, or threatings with power has no effect to her.
Both her mind and body floats around sky of phantasm, that's really mysterious shrine maiden.
However intimidating the opponent is, that doesn't matter to her.
As she planarize whatever title one has, she tends to attract anyone regardless of species, like human or youkai.


Some thoughts about the new format:

  • I kind of miss the pre-formated text gray background that screams, "It's a quote!"
  • With a horizontal rule separating the Japanese text from the English translation, it isn't immediately obvious whether any other horizontal rules are part of the text or separating distinct blocks of text (like in Kaguya's profile)
  • a second-level heading (=== text ===), with only bold text and a slightly larger font, isn't very good for skimming (I suppose it's okay anyway since the table of contents auto-links to each subsection)
  • Nothing at all seems to separate different profiles from the same source (like the last two entries in Reimu's profile)
  • Japanese text is indented but its English translation is not

I don't have anything constructive to offer at this time, but someone else might.

--Deciare 16:22, 21 May 2005 (PDT)


I'm trying another experimental format at User:Deciare/Testing_Something, based on Leviathean's. I've tried to address the issues I pointed out above. Mainly:
  • character portraits are now positioned to the right of the Japanese text
    • both Japanese and English text are left-justified
    • no wasted space on the left column
  • Return of the Gray Boxen *cue cheap horror movie music*
    • very obvious indication of quoted text (for the next profile/source)
    • no need to separate Japanese text and English translations with horizontal rules
  • different profiles from the same source are now separated by blank lines and a horizontal rule (see last 2 profiles from the article linked above)
    • come to think of it, this defeats the purpose of the previous point. Maybe we can do without the ---- between profiles from the same source since gray boxes are already acting as indicators that a different profile is being quoted
Comments?
--Deciare 17:48, 21 May 2005 (PDT)


Well,
  • I don't really want to use the pre-format gray-boxes if possible, since it forces the page to be "wide" (i.e. doesn't word-wrap automatically). Not good when we're trying to make this work for all browsers, screen-sizes and so on.
  • Hmm. I don't think there's any other profile that uses horizontal rules inside a profile text except for Kaguya's. I offer the alternate suggestion that the horizontal rules in Kaguya's official profile could be changed to maybe some centered text, as those seperations in the story text are not as important as seperations for other purposes.
―example text seperation―
  • For the various profiles, the second level heading (=== text ===) used for subsections is appropriate for their relative importance. I guess maybe an additional horizontal rule would be good?
  • Seperating two profiles from the same source seems to be something I forgot. I don't feel it's a big deal, but I'll experiment.
  • Japanese text was always this indented, even in the quotes. Maybe it can be thought of as another way to seperate the English from the Japanese text.
I will be making some of these requested changes in Marisa Kirisame's article shortly. We can continue to reach concensus by adjusting between those two.
--Leviathean 17:59, 21 May 2005 (PDT)


Thanks for responding. I agree with most of your points, and would like to elaborate a few things:
  • The gray boxes on the my test page don't contain pre-formatted text. It's a style attribute inside the <tr>. I work with an 800x600 window and don't like horizontal scrollbars either
  • Mokou's profile also uses section breaks (horizontal rules). I can be blamed for both offences ;)
  • a centred separator of any kind would work as well as an <hr>. What do you suggest? I used separators mainly for 3 cases:
    1. 2 or more consecutive line breaks in the Japanese text
    2. centred "--" in Japanese text
    3. paragraph preceded by "--" in Japanese text
  • It'd be consistent, section-separation-wise, to use anything but horizontal rules to separate ===subsections=== and other small divisions. Boxes, dotted lines, shaded backgrounds, pictures...
  • Oh, right, Japanese text has always been indented. But it didn't bug me as much because the box containing the text was in alignment with the English text.
--Deciare 18:18, 21 May 2005 (PDT)


Arg, you posted before I did. Okay, let's see.
  • Ah, the gray box isn't the preformatted-text box like I feared, but just a background color change inside a table. Smart.
  • Let's keep the table simple. Instead of having a colspan=2, why not just end the table after the picture and write the translation underneath?
  • What is the class="ProfileQuote" supposed to do?
--Leviathean 18:14, 21 May 2005 (PDT)


Oops, and then you posted before me. Um... I think the posts are in chronological order now. Anyway!
  • Thanks
  • I don't know. I guess I'll try that now
  • class="ProfileQuote" might be useful if we change the default site-wide stylesheet to tint its background, italicise its text, or somesuch. So we don't need a separate style attribute for each <tr>
--Deciare 18:18, 21 May 2005 (PDT)


Okay, it seems that we have a nice format now for adding official profiles. We should probably wait a little while (like a day or two) before we start modifying the rest of the profiles, in case someone else has helpful suggestions. Hmm, I guess you put the translation back inside the table because of the extra padding it automatically gets between it and the next profile? I suppose I can't complain; it does look slightly better than the other way. Also, any reason for color #f5f5f5? I think color #f8f8f8 is the one that the preformated text uses, as well as the <code> or <tt> tags... Doesn't stand out as much though. I wonder if there's an easy way to add a border around just the coloured part.
--Leviathean 12:57, 23 May 2005 (PDT)


Pre-formatted text uses #f9f9f9, which is almost invisible without a border. Since I can't get a border to show up around an entire table row (tested with Firefox and Konqueror), I thought I'd darken the background some more. I might be able fake a border by fiddling with individual table cells, but that'd be unpleasantly hostile toward any site-wide stylesheets we might come up with later.
Japanese uses a monospaced font on most non-Japanese OS'es, I think, so the presence or absence of <tt> may not make much of a difference. Is the (usually larger) font size for variable-width fonts bothering you?
I put the translation back inside the table because it's the same semantic unit of information. If someone were to view the articles using a stylesheet that shows borders around tables, then it'd look strange for some parts of information to be shown inside a table while other parts of the same information are shown outside.
--Deciare 13:22, 23 May 2005 (PDT)


No, the font for Japanese looks fine on my computer, just something to keep in mind in case we do use monotype fonts in the future. Although, if the addition of borders sacrifices too much readability/maintainability for just a cosmetic look, I vote that we just darken the background colour of those cells instead.
--Leviathean 14:38, 23 May 2005 (PDT)


I don't suppose too much maintainability will be sacrificed. If we use borders, we'll want to make those part of a CSS class as well. One class for each table cell (the picture cell and the text cell). And we may or may not need to take out the style attributes hardcoded into each tag. Hard to say now, really, since I can't seem to get user stylesheets working, so I can't test anything. Maybe they're not enabled or, more likely, I'm doing something wrong.
--Deciare 15:48, 23 May 2005 (PDT)

TH02 character images

The pictures for the characters in TH02 - Story of Eastern Wonderland are very small. I've been thinking about enlarging them to double the size. It looks much better in my opinion but I want others comment before I proceed. --Svinto

Th02reimu Th02reimu1big Th02reimu1bicubic
normal double double with bicuic resampling
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