eprints_tech messages

From: ePrints Support <support AT eprints.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 16:51:43 +0100

Anything is possible, all things are permitted, but how do you mean, exactly?

The system uses a different template file for each language, so you could
do stuff like that there (if I understand what you mean)

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:08:10PM +0100, Tim Brody wrote:
> Just a thought on different browser "front-ends". Could the same ↵
facility
> for multiple-languages be used to provide alternative visual front-ends
> (including browser oddities)?
> 
> Probably depends, I suppose, on whether your concept is embedded languages
> or embedded content...
> 
> Just adding to the "love" :-)
> 
> All the best,
> Tim.
> 
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, ePrints Support wrote:
> 
> > The other problem I've encountered is that Netscape 4.7 under Linux ↵
(not tested
> > under windows yet) will only allow you to enter LATIN-1 (ie western ↵
europe chars)
> > It will render UTF-8 just fine and even encode LATIN-1 chars into ↵
UTF-8, just
> > no Kanji(sp?) input for netscape 4 users..
> > 
> > Which should give you an idea of the level of love we're putting into ↵
this damn
> > thing <grin>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:49:28PM +0100, Bob Kemp wrote:
> > > Thanks Chris, that worked. I'd already got the stylesheet in ↵
'static', and 
> > > inserting "/" was the key - should have thought of ↵
that.
> > > 
> > > Eprints2 will be interesting - from this and your earlier posts ↵
it sounds 
> > > like you're doing a lot. Not sure that being able to configure ↵
style sheets 
> > > for each browser is what I want, although I see the attraction. ↵
I suppose 
> > > I'd rather browser producers got their own act together - I ↵
know, pigs 
> > > might fly....
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > > Bob Kemp
> > > 
> > > At 02:14 PM 7/5/01 +0100, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> > > >I'd put the stylesheet in the 'static' dir then run ↵
'generate_static' to
> > > >copy it accross into the 'html' dir.
> > > >
> > > >Then make the URL of the stylesheet "/eprints.css" ↵
so that it always looks
> > > >in the basedir of the site and not the current dir.
> > > >
> > > >Can you provide a live URL we can have a look at, if you ↵
still have problems.
> > > >
> > > >eprints2 is being desgined to use stylesheets ALOT. I'm ↵
testing this with
> > > >netscape, mozilla & IE under Linux & Windows so it ↵
should look OK.
> > > >
> > > >It would be possible to add some code to give the option of ↵
a different
> > > >style sheet for each browser/platform to optimise each but ↵
this would be
> > > >more for the admin to maintain. Comments?
> > > >
> > > >All the <I> and <STRONG> should be replaced in ↵
ep2 with <SPAN 
> > > >class="whatever">
> > > >
> > > >Hopefully I'll have a live demo server up soonish (end of ↵
July, *hopefully*).
> > > >
> > > >On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 01:10:06PM +0100, Bob Kemp wrote:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm having a problem getting our nascent eprint ↵
archive here at 
> > > > Strathclyde
> > > > > to recognise the CSS stylesheet I've set up. It works ↵
for the static pages
> > > > > without any problem, but doesn't render successfully ↵
for the rest of the
> > > > > site. The insertion of the link reference in the html ↵
in SiteInfo.pm seems
> > > > > to be OK as this is successfully rendered in the html ↵
- the problem is
> > > > > presumably in the location and url of the stylesheet.
> > > > >
> > > > > If anyone out there has managed to use style sheets ↵
successfully, I'd be
> > > > > interested to know exactly how, including what ↵
directory they put the
> > > > > stylesheet(s) in, and whether they used a relative or ↵
absolute url in
> > > > > SiteInfo.pm. And if I'm barking up the wrong tree ↵
altogether I'd be 
> > > > glad to
> > > > > hear about that as well...
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks everyone,
> > > > >
> > > > > Bob Kemp
> > > > >
> > > > > Dr Bob Kemp
> > > > > Information Officer, Digital Information Office
> > > > > Centre for Digital Library Research
> > > > > University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NS
> > > > >
> > > > > DIO website: http://dio.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/
> > > > >
> > > > > Phone: +44 (0)141 548 2379              FAX: +44 ↵
(0)141 548 2102
> > > >
> > > >--
> > > >Christopher Gutteridge -- cjg AT ecs.soton.ac.uk -- +44 ↵
(0)23 8059 4833
> > > >100,000 Syrian footmen, followed by 27,000 who are all ↵
crushed by a wall
> > > >(I Kings 20:28, 29, 30)
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> >  Christopher Gutteridge                   support AT eprints.org 
> >  ePrints Technical Support                +44 23 8059 4833
> > 
> > 
> 
> Tim Brody
> Computer Science, University of Southampton
> email: tdb198 AT soton.ac.uk
> Web: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tdb198/

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