I just thought of a last-minute change that I wanted to make to the code
anyway, so I went ahead and reverted the format back to just plain text
with the numbers inlined. It might be nice to have a
preformatted-with-line-numbers Wordpress style at some point, but it isn't
really necessary.
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 5:53 PM Gregory Bartholomew <
gregory.lee.bartholomew(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I got the idea to use the ol inside the pre element from perldoc site
btw.
It is done, for example, here:
https://perldoc.perl.org/5.30.0/perlhist.html
I'm not saying that that makes it "right". I'm just saying that
I've seen
it done that way.
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 5:49 PM Gregory Bartholomew <
gregory.lee.bartholomew(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I did initially try using the css user-select style if that is what you
> mean. It didn't seem to work though. It should be pretty trivial to go back
> to just plain text with the numbers inlined if you think using the ol might
> be a problem. I was just trying to comply with a reader's request.
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 5:26 PM Paul Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In future, it would be better if we could encode this with a style
>> rather than hacking article text like this. The ol element isn't really
>> intended for this use case.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2020, 4:23 PM Gregory Lee Bartholomew <
>> gregory.lee.bartholomew(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> P.S. To try to comply with a reader's request, I used ol tags in the
>>> example
>>> code blocks so that the numbers would not get copied. Unfortunately,
>>> Wordpress's
>>> WYSIWYG editor does not seem to like the ol tags. Consequently, you
>>> might need
>>> to use the code editor view to edit some blocks. Everything appears
>>> fine in
>>> preview mode, so I don't expect that the ol will be a problem for the
>>> published
>>> article.
>>>
>>> On Fri, 2020-02-28 at 15:15 -0600, Gregory Lee Bartholomew wrote:
>>> > Hi Adam,
>>> >
>>> > "Demonstrating PERL with Tic-Tac-Toe, Part 2" is ready for
editing.
>>> >
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