In brief … abbreviations
The long way to saying something quickly
How to use and abuse these linguist amputees.
Continue reading In brief … abbreviations (could take seven minutes).
Summaries of all articles dated 2016 from newest to oldest:
The long way to saying something quickly
How to use and abuse these linguist amputees.
Continue reading In brief … abbreviations (could take seven minutes).
Sequentially linking web documents, a simple mark-up and styling example with some wooly logical thinking.
Continue reading Previously known as ‘coming up next!’ (could take five minutes).
Test replacement in O.S.X.
Using text replacement to create your own ‘house style’ and to add a little diversity to your graphemes.
Continue reading The laziness of type (could take two minutes).
A text editor and a static website generator collide
An assortment of clippings, scripts, and stationary for developing Middleman static websites using the BBEdit text editor.
Continue reading BBEdit package for Middleman (could take less than one minute).
Generating a table of contents in Middleman using embedded Ruby
To have an automatically generated table of contents whilst using the Middleman static site generator with Embedded Ruby for templates/layouts and markdown for simple formatting, I have made some modifications to a vanilla install of Middleman.
Continue reading Render unto me, a table of contents (could take two minutes).
Nested ordered and unordered lists with hanging markers
The visual formatting of the ol
and ul
list elements and in particular; using generated content for the markers, setting them outside the list text, and having them ‘hang’ in the margin of the parent element.
Continue reading Enumerate the ways (could take 12 minutes).
More comprehensible subtitles
A short note on typography for the SubRip text file format for providing subtitles for films.
Continue reading Reading whilst watching (and listening) (could take two minutes).
How to setup a custom 404 page for a site generated by Middleman and hosted on GitHub pages.
Continue reading 404 ‘file not found’ error page for GitHub pages and Middleman (could take two minutes).
Adding descriptions to tags
Doing more with the middleman-blog extension’s tags. Adding descriptions, names with inline mark-up, and the tag rel
attribute. This is assuming that you have setup a blank blog as per If I’d known there’d be so much typing, I would have worn gloves.
Continue reading “Tag!”, Middleman is it (could take six minutes).
Styling links
The web, and Wikipedia is a prime example, is a multitude of documents linked together. It does lots of other things, but mostly it’s links and documents. This is an abrupt note on stylesheet selectors for links and pseudo-conventions for styling them.
Continue reading Weigh anchor (could take five minutes).
A short inexhaustive guide to adapting Middleman 4.0.0 to output X.H.T.M.L. rather than H.T.M.L.
Continue reading A little something eXtra for the Middleman (could take four minutes).
Generating a website on O.S.X. 11 with Middleman 4.0.0 and hosting it with GitHub. This is an idiots guide, the idiot being me. I had a frustrating time setting up this site and wanted to ease future installations with an aide-mémoire. Hopefully someone else might find this useful.
Continue reading If I’d known there’d be so much typing, I would have worn gloves (could take six minutes).