Template talk:Navlist/Doc

Tasks
Some things I plan to do to bring this family up to snuff: --Pi zero (talk) 12:44, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Adjust the help page so it serves as a user's guide as well as a programmer's manual.
 * Add some top-navbox style options:
 * Font size (normal or small; this might extend to the bottom navbox, not sure one way or 'tother).
 * Arrow type ( ← → would probably be the default).
 * Alternative form that sits in the upper right corner, instead of spanning left-to-right.
 * Right-hand links on bottom navbox, with anchors by module name.
 * External links as an additional navlist entry type.
 * Client template to generate print version of the book.


 * I tried to add support for named colors like background=black. Apparently the first approach didn't work, so instead of using &amp;nbsp; I've tried another approach which seems to be working. I also seemed to have missed a few places where I needed to switch around #'s and I think I found them all this time. What were you having trouble with? Are you still having trouble? --dark lama  02:31, 21 February 2009 (UTC)


 * As far as I can see your nother approach works. (I tested it with a named color, too.)  --Pi zero (talk) 03:18, 21 February 2009 (UTC)


 * In answer to your first question, the earlier approach with nbsp broke everything that actually used the color returned by Navlist/Map/Background or Navlist/Map/Border; I first noticed that from one of the Conlang pages, but once I knew what to look for it was observable from test case D on Navlist/Top. --Pi zero (talk) 03:38, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

TOC as column?
Every Wikibook page consists of (minimal) two columns: the first one at the leftmost edge for the Wikibook-navigation like 'Main Page', 'Help', 'Browse wiki', ... and a second one for the content of the page. I'm using the term 'column' not in the sense of CSS 'column-count' but in the sense of HTML tables, as 'column-count' leads to floating text between the columns depending on window size whereas table columns have a fixed layout like the mentioned Wikibook pages.

What I'm looking for is a template to create an additional column between the leftmost wikibook column and the page content. Or, to say it the other way round: a template to divide the content page into two colums. This additional column should contain the TOC of the book - not only at the main page but also on every page, where this template is included. And the TOC should be expandable like a directory-tree so that chapters, sub-chapters, sub-sub-chapters, ... can be visualised easily.

As far as I have understood, this request is not met by the template Navlist? --Kelti (discuss • contribs) 18:55, 28 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Much of the content on the front page of Conlang is divided into two columns. Is that somewhat similar to what you want?  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 01:39, 29 April 2015 (UTC)


 * So far: yes. There are two columns as I do expect. But I miss the possibility to fold and unfold subtrees - as it is the case with directories of a file explorer. --Kelti (discuss • contribs) 11:24, 29 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes, that would be nice. Afaik it's not provided by the wiki software, so would require some javascript and would be tricky to do.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 13:15, 29 April 2015 (UTC)