suggestions/requests for Tellico

[Robby Stephenson]

Hi Richard,

On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 9:56 AM Richard Lyons <richard at lyons.art.br> wrote:

> I have succeeded, with some hacks, to set up an art collection system
> using Tellico. I am delighted to be able to produce artwork labels, wall
> labels (for the gallery wall>, price lists, catalog pages, etc. all
> under control of css to have the typefaces and sizes I choose. This is a
> great improvement on the system I have been using.
>
> I realized while setting this up, that it must be equally possible to
> generate web-pages! This week, I have made the first draft of a
> web-site, of which you can see a page here:
>     https://jardim.studio/rl/pintura/france.html


That looks great!


> In this process, I have found a few inconveniences requiring
> workarounds, and I would like to air them here.
>

Thank you for the feedback. All of it will be much appreciated.


> The main difficulty is the use of the 'paragraph' field type. For the
> description of paintings, I need to include some formatting, so must
> insert html tags. I discovered this is possible using
> 'disable-output-escaping' BUT tellico continues to add formatting based
> on linefeeds etc. This means that it is necessary to insert the whole
> description, even if it includes several paragraphs, in one line. This
> makes editing inconvenient.
>

True, Tellico inserts a <br/> tag in place of line returns in the paragraph
field intentionally, since the XML data format would otherwise collapse the
white space. My first thought is to allow a custom property for the field
to specify that replacement should not be done. There's a similar approach
in-place to allow disabling spell-checking.

Robby
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