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ohbendy / Scripts-of-SEAsia

Listing all known indigenous scripts of SEAsia
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Add thumbnail images for each script #1

Closed ohbendy closed 2 months ago

ohbendy commented 5 months ago

As some of these scripts are extremely obscure outside their communities, it'll be helpful to be able to identify what scripts we're talking about.

sovichet commented 5 months ago

If the preview images of those scripts are generated in SVG format, then that would display better in different screen density (normal desktop/laptop and Apple's retina).

ohbendy commented 5 months ago

Do you mean to create vector graphics for every script? That'll need a lot of research and drawing. I was just thinking a small .png for each

ohbendy commented 4 months ago

To discuss:

sovichet commented 3 months ago

Can we add a beta copy of the site so we can play with features without making them fully live?

There are a few ways we can do it.

1. Checkout another branch within the same repo (no live page)

First, we'll need to checkout a new branch and start working on that branch. Add or remove anything we want, but when pushing the commits, it won't be live. And we need to run bundle exec jekyll serve to test the changes on local machines.

Later, when everything is good, we can set up a pull request and then merge it to the main branch which will be compiled into the live page.

2. Fork this project, and get another page domain (live page)

If you want to test the changes and make it available for other people, we'll need to fork this repo to something like "Scripts-of-SEAsia-Beta".

Since it's impossible to fork the GitHub repo under the same username, we'll need to fork this project under my account. And I'll add you as a collaborator and we'll get the live site at "https://sovichet.github.io/Scripts-of-SEAsia-Beta" instead. Then we can set up a pull request and merge later.

I'd recommend the first option, so we can have the record of changes and easily manage.

ohbendy commented 3 months ago

I think we'll need the beta site to be accessible to other people, so we can check we've got the right images for each row. What a shame we can't fork it directly in the same place. Let me collect a few thumbnail images so we can see how difficult it's going to be to get them looking neat in the table, then we can chat about the best way, maybe a beta site isn't the best way :)

sovichet commented 3 months ago

Maybe we can go this way: duplicate the markdown files and change them within this branch. I've just created the index_dev.md and _source/writingsystems_dev.markdown files. They can be accessed via: https://ohbendy.github.io/Scripts-of-SEAsia/index_dev.

ohbendy commented 3 months ago

Ok I've added most images now, we'll consider how to make them interactive after we've switched from .md to .js

ohbendy commented 2 months ago

I'll close this issue for now. If we're going to have interactive images and/or more popup info, we'll need to think about what's possible and can open new issues for that