User:Tom Morris/BlockquoteSandbox

This is a place where we can try out a lot of different blockquote styles - then when we find one we are satisfied with, we can propose it to the editors to become the site-wide style. If you wish to add a suggestion, copy one of the existing ones, modify ONLY the style attribute of the blockquote element and put it in a new section with your name. If you want to provide feedback, add them under each section in usual talk page fashion. If it's more than a few lines of feedback, post it in the forum and provide a link to the particular message. I will refactor discussions. If you plan to do significant amounts of changes, feel free to make a copy of the page in your own user space.

The principle behind this page is that styles should be site-wide rather than article-specific, and Cascading Style Sheets give us a way to do this. If you don't know about CSS, it's not that difficult to learn enough to start customising blockquotes - see this tutorial and the W3C specification homepage. If you've got a rough idea of how a quote should look, post it on the forum thread and someone who knows CSS may be able to create it for you.

By posting up styles on this page, you agree that they are available to the Citizendium for use if chosen.

See also: forum thread

1. Light-grey offset -- Tom Morris

Professor Smith argued that Professor Jones was dead wrong about the Other Wiki.

(Designed on a Mac, intended for use with Monobook rather than the Pinkwich theme. Will create a Pinkwich theme later.)

Anthony.Sebastian offering #1

We begin this section with a brief excerpt from medical historian, Sherwin B. Nuland:

....to him [Galen] we owe the origin of modern medicine's appreciation of anatomical accuracy as the foundation for the understanding of disease, and upon his abiding influence must be cast the onus of impeding research in anatomy until the sixteenth century; he was the ancient world's most eloquent proponent of direct observation and planned experiment, and yet he allowed philosophical and theological conjecture to influence his interpretation of what he saw. He was medicine's best influence, and he was its worst.

What prompts Professor Nuland to put forward that analysis?

Box with left highlight from Jim Perry

The Amish asserted, based on expert testimony, not contradicted by the State, that the Amish religion and way of life were in fact so integrally connected that interference with the Amish way of life would necessarily constitute interference with their religious practices. The Court summed up this testimony in the following words:

"Dr. John A. Hostetler testified that compulsory high school attendance could not only result in great psychological harm to Amish children, because of the conflicts it would produce, but would also, in his opinion, ultimately result in the destruction of the Old Order Amish church community as it exists in the United States today." (id. at 212)

The Court elaborated on this position, explaining why the compulsory school attendance statutes would have this effect on the Amish community:

The above is from Wisconsin v. Yoder, which has extensive quotations from the Court decision. The article uses the ":" style which, in my view, is not very attractive visually. I may work on the above a bit more as I want the right margin to be indented (that is, the quotation should be centered). Also, maybe a somewhat lighter shade of blue.

James F. Perry 23:11, 15 October 2008 (UTC)