[Using Sakai] Sakai CSS

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi all,

The 2.6+ wiki should be 99% compatible with 2.5 if you want to use it.  
There will be one or two issues though, one being you'll need to  
adjust the poms (minor) the other being the addition of the  
ContextualUserDisplayService to it's impl, of which there is only one  
method IIRC. It might all explode though so caveat emptor.

Heres the Jira you want to look at, check out the commits and backout  
the ones you don't need, they are all labelled and commented:
http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-15866

If the style macro is the only functionality you want, check out this  
revision where it's added:
http://source.sakaiproject.org/viewsvn?view=rev&revision=58922

Might be all you need :)

cheers,
Steve

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Steve Swinsburg
Portal Systems Developer
Centre for e-Science
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YT

email: s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk
phone: +44 (0) 1524 594870







On 13 Jul 2009, at 16:34, Matthew Jones wrote:

> Nice Adam, I didn't know about this feature. Unfortunately the {style}
> and extended {block} macro only exist in 2.6 and were pulled in as
> part of
>
> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-15905
>
> ./rwiki-impl/impl/src/java/uk/ac/cam/caret/sakai/rwiki/component/ 
> macros/StyleMacro.java
>
> I'm quite looking forward to trying this feature out as I've had to do
> some magic to make the wiki look good.
>
> In 2.5 and in the meantime you'd have to either create a new skin for
> your site or have your administrator add your style to the wikiStyles
> or the default style.
>
> Creating a *new* skin takes a little bit of work. But there are a few
> ways your administrator might be able to help you get a css into your
> specific site depending on which version you're running. It will still
> take someone who has administrative access
>
> Administrative stuff that requires access to the server:
> - The administrator can edit the default skin as described on this
> page: http://www.bestgrid.org/index.php/Customising_Sakai
> - The administrator can copy the skin to a new directory and you can
> use this new skin just for your site instead of the default skin
> - You can just edit the wiki specific css file.
>
> An administrator could also add in this patch which we are running at
> umich which allows an administrator to add a stylesheet to your site.
>
> "Add the Ability to embed a bit of HMTL from a Site Property in the
> Background Document of a Site"
> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-15097
>
> -Matthew
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Marshall Feldman<marsh at uri.edu> wrote:
>> Matthew Jones wrote
>>> ------------------------------
>>> | -- As far as indenting I've never found an easy way and have some
>>> | interesting work arounds. This would probably be a nice thing to  
>>> add
>>> | though.
>>> |
>>> | Workaround 1: Almost all browsers support unicode and if you  
>>> insert
>>> | unicode spaces it will accept it and indent, it removes a  
>>> regular old
>>> | space though. On OSX you can type unicode moderately easily by  
>>> going
>>> | to System Preferences->International->Input Menu and selecting
>>> | "Unicode Hex Input" near the bottom. Also select show Input Menu  
>>> on
>>> | Menu bar. This can be useful because you can insert other  
>>> unicode into
>>> | the wiki.
>>> | (Character for the unicode space the wiki accepts and indents)
>>> | http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0020/index.htm
>>> |
>>> | Workaround 2: You can have your administrator add a new style to  
>>> the
>>> | portal.css or the wiki css (or your site's custom css if you  
>>> have one)
>>> | that has some styles to specify the level of indent you want  
>>> then you
>>> | can use the {block:class} {block} or {span:class} {span} to indent
>>> | your block of text based on this style. I don't know if theres any
>>> | good styles that already exist that do what you might want.
>>> |
>>> | For instance some of the existing comment body styles:
>>> | {block:rwikicommentbody_1}Some test text{block} (However this  
>>> style
>>> | makes the text 85%)
>>> |
>>> | -------
>>> | Possibly a good future macro (if someone would write it) might be
>>> | {indent:5}Indented text{indent} Which would indent a block of  
>>> text by
>>> | this many spaces.
>>> |
>>> | -Matthew
>>>
>>>
>> I actually meant to ask about CSS in my original post.  
>> Documentation for
>> some of the wiki macros, such as block, mentions CSS selectors, but  
>> how
>> does one access the CSS for a site?
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Marshall Feldman, PhD
>> Director of Research and Academic Affairs
>>
>> Center for Urban Studies and Research
>> The University of Rhode Island
>> email: marsh @ uri .edu (remove spaces)
>>
>>
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>>
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