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Activity for Monica Cellio‭

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Edit Post #39319 Post edited:
we've made some improvements since my last update
over 3 years ago
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over 3 years ago
Edit Post #275971 Post edited:
creating the "support" tag so I can add it to the list of special tags for the tag set
over 3 years ago
Edit Post #275971 Post edited:
creating the "support" tag so I can add it to the list of special tags for the tag set
over 3 years ago
Edit Post #278005 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Answer A: Is there any benefit when writing out instructions to split it up into lots of little paragraphs, or is it better to leave it in one paragraph?
Writing in fuller paragraphs feels like it creates better reading flow, as opposed to short choppy chunks of text, but that's a prose consideration. For instructions, the primary goal is to help the reader do all the necessary steps in applicable order. If lots of steps are combined in a single par...
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #277206 I found this to be really well-done and touching. I haven't had dogs as an adult but I grew up with pet dogs and now I have cats. I've had to make that painful decision. We had a dog who had been previously abused, though obviously we didn't get the dog's POV, just saw the effects (trust, fear, et...
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #277082 @aCVn `<pre>` is what we're using now (actually inside a `<div class="example">` for some other styling; don't know why). It doesn't have to be that specifically; I don't know whether this was intentional or an artifact of porting from a prior tool, but either way it was ten years ago and we can cer...
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #277083 I might be misunderstanding, but how does this account for the different line lengths needed on different devices? This looks like a way to style wrap, but how do you get automatic wrapping inside a pre?
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over 3 years ago
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Edit Post #277082 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Question How can we format code examples so that they work on a range of devices?
We use Madcap Flare to produce a large documentation set that contains many code examples (primarily SQL, but also C++, Java, and Python) and command-line operations. When the doc set was first planned, years ago, the people designing the layout assumed desktop browsers, as was the norm back then. ...
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #276843 This is excellent.
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almost 4 years ago
Comment Post #276643 Also, I'm pretty sure the "writing" tag is a data-import bug; that doesn't make sense. I've pinged the developers.
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almost 4 years ago
Comment Post #276643 I did some structuring in some of the tech-writing and tools tags. I made software a child of tools since tools is broad, and the put Word and Scriviner under software. As we come across more we can add them in.
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almost 4 years ago
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Edit Post #276451 Initial revision almost 4 years ago
Question Hierarchical tags are now available
We just got hierarchical tags. A tag can have one or more children, and when you search on a tag you can either search just that tag or also search its children. This gives us another way to organize content. This feature was proposed on the Judaism site; you can see more background there. (Thi...
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almost 4 years ago
Comment Post #276129 @MarkBaker with the poor records we have it's hard to tell, but people also didn't used to be as mobile as they are now, so that probably led to more pressure to conform too (you're stuck with these people or, alternatively, the consequences of being expelled are severe). Plus you need something to ...
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almost 4 years ago
Edit Post #276129 Initial revision almost 4 years ago
Answer A: Could a 13-year-old have morality to disagree with their family's unethical business practices, while those are the norm in their society?
Setting aside your specific case, which I'm not qualified to comment on, I'll address your general question of a 13-year-old opposing family and the broader society's ethics. I have no particular expertise in history or sociology here; this is just what I've observed. Sure, this happens quite fre...
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almost 4 years ago
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Edit Post #275895 Initial revision almost 4 years ago
Answer A: Would content at ebooks.se be in scope here?
This answer is my opinion, not moderator/admin edict. Voting and feedback in comments still apply. Their site description says the site is for publishers and readers of ebooks. Anything about publishing ebooks is on-topic here (and was on Writing.SE). Reading is probably not unless it's stuff pu...
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almost 4 years ago
Comment Post #275876 Oh, that's bold? It's a small-enough difference that, on its own, I didn't realize. Thanks.
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almost 4 years ago
Comment Post #275876 Nice! Did you mean for the first line to also be inside the blockquote? Or is it a title and not part of the poem itself?
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almost 4 years ago
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almost 4 years ago
Comment Post #275819 Confirmed. It happens if you use the controls, but not if you type markdown (which is what I tried first, before realizing what you meant).
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almost 4 years ago
Comment Post #75027 @aCVn agreed on all points, including using sparingly.
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almost 4 years ago
Edit Post #75027 Initial revision almost 4 years ago
Answer A: Are speaker tags always necessary when multiple people are in the conversation?
Sometimes it doesn't matter who said what. In your example, where everyone has the same goals and is working together, it seems fine to leave most or all of them out -- the focus here is more on the group discussion than on individual speakers. This approach wouldn't work in cases where the speaker...
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almost 4 years ago
Comment Post #75003 Good point about burying the original content, which we need more of (and to be more findable). And we should continue to prune stuff from the original import that is not helping us -- downvotes and flags are helpful there.
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almost 4 years ago
Edit Post #74997 Initial revision almost 4 years ago
Question What new data should we import from SE?
When we set up this site we imported from SE as of the December data dump (the latest we had at the time). We didn't have a way to get the delta; the import code didn't use the API. We now have better data-import tools, and there's been a new data dump. We can, therefore, import stuff that was p...
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almost 4 years ago
Comment Post #74979 @Canina agreed. The goal is to design with both in mind. In fact, most developers are using desktop, so we have to actively think about mobile -- but we want to do that *early*, not *later*.
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almost 4 years ago
Edit Post #74979 Initial revision almost 4 years ago
Question mice don't tap and tablet-users don't click: what word can I use for all audiences instead?
I am documenting features on a web site. The audience is end users, who could be anywhere from seasoned Internet veterans to relatively new people who came for my site's content but aren't generally online for hours every day. People visit the web site on a variety of devices, from phones (mobile s...
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almost 4 years ago
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almost 4 years ago
Edit Post #7990 Post edited:
trying to fix formatting of superscripts
almost 4 years ago
Edit Post #10769 Post edited:
I've since had the direct personal experience, so don't need this disclaimer now.
almost 4 years ago