InsaneHacker

Proofreading

See this change to see how to separate paragraphs and place headers. Thanks for helping! --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:46, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip! I thought the header and footer fields were just for "administrative purposes" (i.e. stuff that isn't actually in the document). Respectfully, InsaneHacker (💬) 16:49, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

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Again, welcome! --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:46, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Dynamic Layouts...

The actual layouts are defined as entries to ws.layouts in MediaWiki:PageNumbers.js (specfically, the array self.ws_layouts, which contains specific CSS class definitions for certain elements, or overrides thereof. You'd need an interface admin to amend that file if you want to add a well tested layout for all users. (It has been rare for a new layout to be added to these.)

From what I can gather on a short glance, is that the layout engine on Wikisource creates a specfic hireachy of containers, to which the CSS in ws.layout is applied. ( Personally it would to me make more sense to to have something like a Global TemplateStyles for this, but that functionality didn't exist when then the dynamic layouts support was originally written.

If you are trying to roll your own layouts I also suggest looking at the various other families that do sidenote style layouts.

Such as

• {{PageLayout}}|{{MarginNote}}
• {{OverfloatL}}{{OverfloatR}}
• {{Outside L}}{{Outside R}}

and the {{Cl-act-p}} family.

which should eventually be recombined as they currently are fixed layouts as opposed to dynamic or responsive :( ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 16:22, 15 February 2019 (UTC)