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At 11:37am on January 1, 2009, Laura Gibbs said…: That is GREAT news about the Ning. Javascripts are a way to add dynamic content (it changes by date, or at random) so that the page seems more "alive" (unpredictable) - I use daily content, weekly content, and random content all over my pages (like in the sidebars of this Ning), so that it can feel like the content is changing all the time, always new stuff to look at and/or read. My student built a tool for creating javascripts which I've used to create a ton of scripts here:
SchoolhouseWidgets.com
You can use them in Blogger.com sidebars, in Ning templates, and in all kinds of web environments. Some places disable javascript, and some places enable it only in part (for example, at the Ning, only admins can include javascripts in textboxes). I love it - building widget scripts is one of my favorite things to do in my copious (ha ha ha) free time. :-)

At 11:34am on January 1, 2009, Laura Gibbs said…: Oh, also, about the umlaut - I am ambivalent about whether people want to reflect that or not (I've left all diacritics out so far except when it resolves a word that is ambiguous even in context), but if you think it is useful, definitely include it, in brackets. Here is the example I had given in the notes - I hadn't realized he was using umlauts, too, but the same idea applies:
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Standard Roman characters only: No accent marks. In order to make sure the dictionary pages are as search-engine-friendly as possible, please do not use the grave accent marks which are occasionally found in the book to indicate long vowels - or, if you do want to include them, please do a standard form first, THEN followed by the form with the grave accent in brackets, e.g.
maxime [maximè].

At 11:32am on January 1, 2009, Laura Gibbs said…: Aha, Bob, that is a good point - I've had a hard time forcing myself to use the J/j (especially in words like huius, cuius, etc.) - and I'll confess that's not something I am super-concerned about, but it does affect searching and so on. Thanks so much for pointing that out! I'll ask people to try to use the J/j if they can (it's easier to set that as the standard) - but we can also fix up a lot of that in the proofreading.

The hard thing for me that I just cannot bear to do is use V for capital u... although now that I think about it, that will also affect searching. Hmmm. So we better be using Vlp. instead of Ulp. for Ulpian citations, etc. Thank you so much for pointing that out! I'll ponder this and find something to say on the transcription notes later today!

If only we were transcribing in all-caps everything would be easier, ha ha.

:-)

At 10:43am on January 1, 2009, Laura Gibbs said…: Robert, this is wild - I never saw a picture of you before but I think, as such things go, I was not that far off on my mental "imago" of you, ha ha. Anyway, I hope you will get good news from Ning soon about your class Ning. As an admin, you can include javascripts in all the text boxes anywhere in your layout - I just wrote a new Alciato script as a "New Year's" project, starting with the god Janus for good luck in the New Year. Have you ever played around with the emblem literature? I love it, of course, because it has PICTURES. :-)

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