User talk:Hftf

Greetings Hftf,

Any idea what "photomoding" means? mysteryroom (talk) 04:16, 15 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hello, I am somewhat confident it means essentially "the use of photomode" (as well as perhaps being an -ing form of the verb "to photomode"). Actually it was the term I heard and looked up first, that led me to create the entry photomode, which is at least more attested from a brief search. This book contains some description and commentary of the practice, though doesn't use the exact term. Thanks for the message! Hftf (talk) 04:32, 15 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thank you kindly for your prompt response. I will create the term now. mysteryroom (talk) 04:35, 15 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

When I'm trying to make rtl text work with an inherently ltr thing like a template, I set up the template framework first with all the pipes and ltr text in place: {{af|||lit=from the face of}}, then I add the rtl text inside the appropriate spaces, like pouring something into a mold. Any time you switch between ltr and rtl while typing it's too easy to get turned around, so you don't know where you're really putting the characters. Chuck Entz (talk) 06:43, 10 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Understood. One thing to note is that the placeholders may still shift around between the first mold-pour and the second mold-pour, depending on the directionality of what's pasted inside, so it's not quite foolproof! I've been taking notice as best I can, using arrow keys and uniview. Thanks for fixing my other typos. Hftf (talk) 06:50, 10 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hi,

Because this is the original variant, I merged over the info from ℝ. If this works for you, we should do the same for the other blackboard bold symbols. 𝐑 and ℝ aren't synonyms, just allographs. kwami (talk) 22:19, 28 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Sure, I'm happy enough with the current situation at ℝ 𝐑; the senses are what are synonymous, which can be represented by indented {{syn}} below a sense. Allography is of other relevance to defining words/symbols (objects of our dictionary), and it exists on a spectrum: for some senses the two symbols are pure allographs; for others not quite (if one is more preferred it's not a pure allograph). We can use {{defdate|from the 1960s}} on the blackboard form senses. On the question of where to keep the canonical form, I already wrote about it at rfwhatever but don't care that much. Oops re: the hasty "original" typo. Thanks for the message. Hftf (talk) 22:42, 28 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Okay, added that template.

I didn't want to merge all of them in case there were objections. I don't see where you gave your opinion, so I'm going off my mathematician contact. If no-one objects by tomorrow or so, I'd like to merge the others so we're consistent. kwami (talk) 23:52, 28 February 2025 (UTC)Reply