{"id":9,"date":"2006-02-07T20:20:47","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T01:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gmu.mossiso.com\/697\/?p=9"},"modified":"2010-10-07T16:30:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T20:30:31","slug":"octothorpe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/2006\/02\/07\/octothorpe\/","title":{"rendered":"Octothorpe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Class discussion on February 7, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Big deal about footnotes?  Scholars love them, and need them.  Web people don&#8217;t want them, or think they are needed.  They want to come up with a different way: links, sidebars, and such.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, we learn how to put good ol&#8217; footnotes in the text, so they look good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gmu.mossiso.com\/697\/dev\/expo.html\">Here&#8217;s the practice page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The problem with the basic <sup> tag is that the line-height is all messed up.  It&#8217;s about readability!  Make it nice on the eyes, pal!<br \/>\n&#8211; all the values in the element? remember TROUBLE or TRBL (top right bottom left)<\/p>\n<div class=\"code\">Ex. padding: 2em 2em 2em 2em<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; Make the sup script stand out and not mess up the line-height by taking out the margin, padding, etc<br \/>\n&#8211; The image looks best when floated to the right. Because the image shows someone pointing. You want the eyes to be drawn to the text. Bad example: <a href=\"http:\/\/littleprofessor.typepad.com\">Little Professor<\/a>.  Her picture is looking away from the text.<br \/>\n&#8211; Can&#8217;t she just flip the image?  Depends, what is the image for, copyright issues&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8211; images: use some floating and padding.<br \/>\n&#8211; menus: list-style-type: none, get&#8217;s rid of the dots.<br \/>\n&#8211; pull qoute: display: block, kind of makes it like it&#8217;s own little div.  Also use the <cite> tag.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigtel.com\/tel_tech_octothorpe.html\">Octothorpe?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luddite\">Luddite?<\/a><\/cite><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class discussion on February 7, 2006. Big deal about footnotes? Scholars love them, and need them. Web people don&#8217;t want them, or think they are needed. They want to come up with a different way: links, sidebars, and such. Tonight, we learn how to put good ol&#8217; footnotes in the text, so they look good. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/2006\/02\/07\/octothorpe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Octothorpe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[166,13,8],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-clio-wired-2","category-school-work","tag-class-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wosP-9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}