Index talk:The Sikh Religion, its gurus, sacred writings and authors Vol 1.djvu

Style guide

For the style guide for this work, see Talk:The Sikh Religion. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 14:39, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Text size

@Sir Beluga, @MarkLSteadman, @Rajasekhar1961, @Beleg Tâl, @Jasonanaggie, @Peteforsyth, @EncycloPetey: Hi there,

To ensure a coherence between the work done by all the contributors, I wanted to ask you how we should specify text-size. There are quotes and there's the main text.

Should we use :

1. normal size for quotations and bigger size for main text
2. {{fs90/s}} / {{fs90/e}} and normal size
3. {{fine block/s}} / {{fine block/e}} and normal size
4. {{smaller}} and normal size

Assassas77 (talk) 00:39, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

I started a style guide here a while ago, feel free to add to it or modify as needed. (I should have linked it from the Index talk pages, apologies for that oversight.) —Beleg Tâl (talk) 00:46, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

We should really have just one style guide location, not two. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:46, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

My own disposition is generally to refrain from specifying text size unless necessary. For instance, I will often transcribe works in which quotations are in a smaller typeface, by indenting them instead of reducing the point size. IMO it makes for an easier and more flexible reading experience, while preserving the original intent of making the quotation visibly distinct from the main text.

But, I don't want to impose my own preferences here...just making the point for consideration. If I dive back into this text, I'm happy to follow your guidelines if others like them. -Pete (talk) 00:48, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

I think it makes sense for the main text to be normal size, and for the quotations to use {{smaller}}. - Sir Beluga (talk) 15:07, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

{{smaller}} is a span-template, so {{smaller block}} would be the template of choice. Smaller text is pretty small though; fine text is closer to the effect in the work being transcribed. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 14:41, 24 June 2018 (UTC)