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grapesmoker / qems2

A new implementation of the QEMS submission system for quizbowl questions.
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Pronunciation guides should be a in different format than powers #295

Open mbentley00 opened 8 years ago

mbentley00 commented 8 years ago

Come up with a different font or something to use for pronunciation guides.

mweiner1 commented 8 years ago

The "bold plus shading" approach used in 2014 ACF Fall and other tournaments seems to work well, both for this need and to help more advanced readers skip the guides.

mbentley00 commented 8 years ago

I'd also like to add support for indicating where pronunciation guides start in the regular text. In other words, both the original word and the pronunciation guide should be formatted differently so you can at a glance know to skip to the pronunciation guide if you want to do that. I'm thinking of maybe using pipes (|) to represent this.

hftf commented 8 years ago

May I suggest expropriating the Markdown link syntax ([foo](bar)) for use as pronunciation guides? I always thought quizbowl light markup should be less idiosyncratic and slightly more conventional (Markdown). That way you can take advantage of an existing Markdown parser and strip out/invalidate the features you don't need (block elements, etc.). Just an idea.