Robert Muetzelfeldt wrote:
> Thanks for your comments, John.
>
> I think the white space you mention results from some extra formatting
> (newlines etc) I inserted into the generated HTML source, in order to
> make that more readable for anyone who wants to View Source. I've
> now taken that out, and updated the published version. The only white
> space that I get now when I copy-and-paste a line is a tab character
> just before the centred keyword. I guess that results from the fact
> that that is the boundary between two cells (<td> elements), which is
> what I use in order to get all the centred keywords aligned
> vertically. So there's nothing I can do about that.
>
> Whatever, I don't actually envisage that many people will actually be
> wanting to cut-and-paste from the keyword-centred list - it's not
> really the point of the exercise.
> What I could do is to provide a link on each row to the corresponding
> row in the HTML Standard Name table on the CF Metadata web site -
> would that be useful? Amongst other benefits, anyone who wanted to
> cut-and-paste the name could get it from there.
yes, thats what i was using it for, so a link would be great.
>
> Cheers,
> Robert
>
> John Caron wrote:
>> Robert Muetzelfeldt wrote:
>>> As part of an exercise looking at the grammatical structure of
>>> CF-metadata Standard Names, I have produced a list of all
>>> occurrences of all keywords, with the full Standard Name arranged to
>>> the left and right of the page-centred keyword. All the remaining
>>> words in each Standard Name are hyperlinks, so it is easy to
>>> navigate around the list by clicking on individual words. This
>>> keyword-centred format makes it easy to see the pattern of the terms
>>> which precede and succeed each keyword.
>>>
>>> The current version can be found at
>>> http://www.similette.com/cfmetadata/centred_list.html So far,
>>> tested only in Firefox.
>>>
>>> Please note that this is a working prototype, developed for my own
>>> use. I just thought that others might be interested in this way of
>>> browsing through the Standard Names. Please also note that the list
>>> of Standard Names it uses was downloaded in Oct 2008, so is well out
>>> of date. If this is considered to be a useful resource, I would be
>>> happy to discuss (offline) options for improving the formatting and
>>> keeping the list up to date.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>
>> this is very cool.
>>
>> one thing i noticed is that on the web page, you have an embedded
>> blank (or something) after the "_", which makes it harder to cut and
>> paste the name.
>>
>> *bolus*_
>> northward
>> <http://www.similette.com/cfmetadata/centred_list.html#northward>_
>> sea <http://www.similette.com/cfmetadata/centred_list.html#sea>_
>> water
>> <http://www.similette.com/cfmetadata/centred_list.html#water>_
>> velocity
>> <http://www.similette.com/cfmetadata/centred_list.html#velocity>
>> <http://www.similette.com/cfmetadata/centred_list.html#velocity>
>> <http://www.similette.com/cfmetadata/centred_list.html#velocity>
>>
>>
>
>
Received on Tue Jan 19 2010 - 13:44:36 GMT
