Why are you using raquo as a page title separation? I realize it looks nice, but wouldn't a dash or colon look be more appropriate? I realize it looks cool, but it's a quote, not a separator.
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Christian
Why use raquo as a page title separation? (21 posts)
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gloddy
Posted 5 years ago # -
(i don't get it ?)
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It would be funny if it weren't such a sad commentary on the human species as a whole ;-)
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apoulemanos
Posted 5 years ago #Agreed.
And to actually answer the question, I think it's a matter of personal preference. Grammatically, it is incorrect, but so is any punctuation you use, because it's a fragment/title.
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Posted 5 years ago #I suppose I take issue with it because we work so hard to make our sites accessible and standards based. How does a raquo come across in a reader for the blind or smartphones or who knows what else? Wouldn't be more sensible to just use a : ? Perhaps I'm being silly here, but it does seem like a legitimate, if small, issue.
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Posted 5 years ago #I never considered accessibility... it's a thought.
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Posted 5 years ago #Items contained in quotes may take a different voice in readers for the blind to distinguish it as a quote. How would it deal with a single quote and no closing quote? I honestly don't know. Does anyone know someone who uses such a reader? Something to ponder I suppose.
In the meantime, anyone know offhand what file I edit to alter it in my own install? -
Posted 5 years ago #Nevermind. Found it.
wp-includes/template-functions-general.php
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i seriously think parameters like these should be accessible from some advanced panel that can be incorporated in the backend.
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blueshadow
Posted 4 years ago #I got rid of raquo in the title tag through wp-includes/template-functions-general.php. but now i don't know how to get rid of the extra space in the title tag. you can take a look at the code. please help http://www.topretreat.com/index.php/escape-to-virginia-beach/
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Viper007Bond
Posted 4 years ago #Umm, there's no need to go editing core files. The function itself is configurable.
»is just the DEFAULT. You can use anything you want.http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_title
Example: here's "
::" being used: http://www.finalgear.com/news/2005/09/15/ -
I've had this thread in the back of my mind for some time. The "@" symbol caught on like gangbusters, for showing the relationship between a user and a domain -- but there's no similarly ubiquitous symbol for showing the relationship between a document/post and a domain/section.
I asked some mathematically inclined friends, in case they knew of a way of writing such relationships, and they said, "oh sure: Є"
Its either html entry & # 1 0 2 8 ; or & # 7 4 5 3 ; (i've had to space them out because neither backticks nor < code > seems to be working)
This symbol, when placed between x and y is used to say that x is part of y, where y is a set that contains y.
I thought it would be a good character to use in place of the one that is technically a quote.
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vkaryl
Posted 3 years ago #Cool, dylan. Just COOL. We tend to forget the relationship factor that MADE the
@symbol so instantly obviously perfect.Um. And before I go to make wholesale changes here: what's that thing actually CALLED? Does it have a name other than
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I don't know what the name is... it looks like an Ukrainian palatalized E (read = ye). But it comes from the Old Greek "epsilon".
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It's a lower-case epsilon. Probably because the "Є" is read as "element."
x Є y is read "x is an element of y."
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Posted 3 years ago #Even cooler! I can probably remember that *laughs at self*....
Hmm. So is there an "upper case epsilon" then? Must be google time!
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Well, the "upper case epsilon" is what became our (Latin) E.
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Posted 3 years ago #Hmmm. The things they never taught one in school....
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thenerdsangle
Posted 3 years ago #I'm not quite sure which symbol you tracked down, but ∋, (code number 8715) is the more correct character to use.
It is the opposite of the symbol you listed and is read "contains."
i.e.
Some Site ∋ A page
(read "some site contains a page")
There's also ∍ (8717), which is a smaller version of the same glyph.
And technically, the element symbol is not quite the same as an epsilon. According to the Unicode standard, a lower case epsilon is ε (949). My math professor actually writes epsilon this way to be sure it isn't confused with the element symbol. However, some people do write epsilon the same as an element symbol.
vkaryl - you probably never learned this because you never studied Greek. It's not a common school class. I only know because my Latin teacher was a Greek major, so when she didn't feel like teaching Latin one day, she taught us the Greek alphabet.
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thenerdsangle
So, the chraracter I mentioned (code number 1028 ?) is for showing that X is contained by Y? Or did you only mean that it is only the mirror image of the character you mentioned(#8715)?
If not, is there a related symbol for "is contained by"?
It would be nice if there were, so that titles could be listed in either order: title first or section first.
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I found these, sourtesty of the W3C
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html<!ENTITY isin CDATA "∈" -- element of, U+2208 ISOtech -->
<!ENTITY notin CDATA "∉" -- not an element of, U+2209 ISOtech -->
<!ENTITY ni CDATA "∋" -- contains as member, U+220B ISOtech -->
<!ENTITY sub CDATA "⊂" -- subset of, U+2282 ISOtech -->That last one would be useful to show that a category is contained within a larger structure.
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