Video Template talk:Post-nominals
Size
Various templates have been changed to make |honorific_prefix= and |honorific_suffix= appear smaller by default. This means that using this template in an infobox with setting "size=100" is creating some very small post-nominals (such as here). This needs fixing. Either:
- The default size is changed to 100% and size=85 is shown as an option (or even introducing a size=small option so people don't pick their own percentage)
- 85% is kept as the default (as I'm guessing this could lead to confusion) and size=100 is added to the examples so it is used by editors if this is where they get the template from: the use of the default 85% will then be explained under the heading Font size
This is an unfortunate result of the new formatting of the above parameters, but needs a speedy conclusion. What does everyone think? Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 21:45, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
- This really needs to be sorted out as as the "double smalling" that is now occurring in many articles is contrary to MOS:FONTSIZE: "Avoid using smaller font sizes in elements that already use a smaller font size, such as infoboxes ... In no case should the resulting font size drop below 85% of the page font size". Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 14:14, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
- I have added a comment to the template page to reflect this. Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 14:18, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
Maps Template talk:Post-nominals
Smarter behavior
This would have much, much more utility if |list= (and its aliases) did not completely override the unnamed parameters, but added to them. There's no reason at all that {{post-nominals|TC|OCC|AM|country=GBR|list=[[Trinity Cross|TC]]}} shouldn't work, as: . An alternative would be to permit any numbered parameter to contain something like [[Trinity Cross|TC]] and not be parsed against the pre-set lists; I'd have to think hard about how to detect that. -- SMcCandlish ? ¢ >??????< 13:05, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
Commas
This should have comma-space not just space between each of multiple post-noms. Every style guide I've looked at recommends this, so this template's current output is downright aberrant. It's definitely a comprehensibility issue, and possibly an accessibility problem. (There are some real-world style complications, such as complicated comma and spacing rules advocated by Oxford, in which academic postnoms can include groups of spaced degrees and institutional abbreviations, each group separate by a comma: "BA MA Oxf, PhD Dub"; but this has no implications for this template, and the same style calls for comma-space between each simple postnom when they are not in such "institution attribution" groups.) -- SMcCandlish ? ¢ >??????< 13:05, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
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