From 8acec5c94ce53e574330464ba6782dbc9bdd4a13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Löthberg Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:55:27 +0100 Subject: Add small caps to the first 5 words of journal entries --- src/journal/1-hello-world.rst | 6 +++-- src/journal/10-mercurian-pronouns.rst | 41 +++++++++++------------------------ src/journal/2-comments.rst | 11 ++++++---- src/journal/3-atom-feed.rst | 12 +++++----- src/journal/4-comment-moderation.rst | 12 +++++----- src/journal/5-hello-yawa.rst | 11 +++++----- src/journal/7-sick.rst | 11 ++++++++-- src/journal/8-drugs.rst | 8 ++++--- src/journal/9-XIX.rst | 6 +++-- 9 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/journal') diff --git a/src/journal/1-hello-world.rst b/src/journal/1-hello-world.rst index 444896a..9c6d9f1 100644 --- a/src/journal/1-hello-world.rst +++ b/src/journal/1-hello-world.rst @@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ author: Johannes Löthberg author_link: /~kyrias/about.html -I should probably write an entry some time. I’ve been thinking about what to -write about for a while but I can’t really think of anything that I’d want +.. role:: sc + +:sc:`I should probably write an` entry some time. I’ve been thinking about what +to write about for a while but I can’t really think of anything that I’d want people to read. (Not that I expect anyone to actually read this, eh…) Could write about what I’m doing and how I’m poking and prodding at this site maybe? Or maybe something related to LDAP, or setting up OpenSMTPD and Dovecot, or diff --git a/src/journal/10-mercurian-pronouns.rst b/src/journal/10-mercurian-pronouns.rst index ea3b35a..3f32fa6 100644 --- a/src/journal/10-mercurian-pronouns.rst +++ b/src/journal/10-mercurian-pronouns.rst @@ -4,41 +4,26 @@ author: Johannes Löthberg author_link: /~kyrias/about.html -So, you might or might not know that English pronouns are sort of annoying in -some regards. -For example, there aren’t a canonical set of singular third-person, -gender-neutral pronouns. +.. role:: sc + +:sc:`So, you might or might` not know that English pronouns are sort of annoying in some regards. +For example, there aren’t a canonical set of singular third-person, gender-neutral pronouns. Some people, past-me included, use “they” as a singular pronoun. -There are people that try to use unfounded arguments to prove that use somehow -wrong, but they generally use rather flawed arguments. -Using it as a singular pronoun has been done for literally centuries, and some -people compare the use of singular *they* to the use of a singular *you* -instead of *thou*, though I have gotten no reasonable reply from people arguing -against singular *they* about that point yet. +There are people that try to use unfounded arguments to prove that use somehow wrong, but they generally use rather flawed arguments. +Using it as a singular pronoun has been done for literally centuries, and some people compare the use of singular *they* to the use of a singular *you* +instead of *thou*, though I have gotten no reasonable reply from people arguing against singular *they* about that point yet. There are alternatives to the singular “they” however. -One set, which is commonly, though inaccurately [1]_, known as the Spivak -pronouns, was first used by James Rogers in 1890, who created his set from the -pronouns “he” and “them”. -Later, in 1975, Christine Elverson created what she called her “transgender -pronouns” by dropping the ”th” from the pronouns “they”, “them”, and “their”. -Michael Spivak, who is often attributed with the invention of the set of -pronouns, used his versions of in the manual `The Joy of TeX`_ (1983), though -said in 2006 that he did not invent them himself. [2]_ +One set, which is commonly, though inaccurately [1]_, known as the Spivak pronouns, was first used by James Rogers in 1890, who created his set from the pronouns “he” and “them”. +Later, in 1975, Christine Elverson created what she called her “transgender pronouns” by dropping the ”th” from the pronouns “they”, “them”, and “their”. +Michael Spivak, who is often attributed with the invention of the set of pronouns, used his versions of in the manual `The Joy of TeX`_ (1983), though said in 2006 that he did not invent them himself. [2]_ -Personally I prefer the Elverson pronoun set since a simple “E” isn’t easily -distinguishable from “he” audibly in some contexts. +Personally I prefer the Elverson pronoun set since a simple “E” isn’t easily distinguishable from “he” audibly in some contexts. -The previous incarnations haven't been complete though, and have left the -possessive pronoun and reflexive versions undefined, so HalosGhost_ and I have -decided to use what we call the Mercurian set, using the same system as -Elverson did and dropping the “th” from the third-person plural pronouns, but -properly defining all possibilities. +The previous incarnations haven't been complete though, and have left the possessive pronoun and reflexive versions undefined, so HalosGhost_ and I have decided to use what we call the Mercurian set, using the same system as Elverson did and dropping the “th” from the third-person plural pronouns, but properly defining all possibilities. -The rule for making the Mercurian pronouns is just to drop the “th” from the -plural pronouns, which makes it easily generalizable to any plural third-person -constructs. +The rule for making the Mercurian pronouns is just to drop the “th” from the plural pronouns, which makes it easily generalizable to any plural third-person constructs. Following is a non-exhaustive table of some of the pronoun sets: [3]_ diff --git a/src/journal/2-comments.rst b/src/journal/2-comments.rst index e983249..9b71d8f 100644 --- a/src/journal/2-comments.rst +++ b/src/journal/2-comments.rst @@ -4,10 +4,13 @@ author: Johannes Löthberg author_link: /~kyrias/about.html -Finally set it up so that each journal entry gets a separate page generated for -itself too in addition to being on the `journal index`_. Each entry gets a file -in the ``/~kyrias/journal/`` subdirectory named after the entry source file but -with the extension changed to ``.html`` instead of ``.rst``. +.. role:: sc + +:sc:`Finally set it up so` that each journal entry gets a separate page +generated for itself too in addition to being on the `journal index`_. Each +entry gets a file in the ``/~kyrias/journal/`` subdirectory named after the +entry source file but with the extension changed to ``.html`` instead of +``.rst``. My first thought for which commenting system to use was disqus, but I don't really like using it at all in practice so I quickly decided against it. I do diff --git a/src/journal/3-atom-feed.rst b/src/journal/3-atom-feed.rst index 77da8d3..a889e4c 100644 --- a/src/journal/3-atom-feed.rst +++ b/src/journal/3-atom-feed.rst @@ -4,11 +4,13 @@ author: Johannes Löthberg author_link: /~kyrias/about.html -Added an atom generator thingy to ``bupa``, (short for “build page”,) which is -a python script I use to generate this website. The script uses docutils for -parsing the body text written in reStructuredText_ and uses jinja2_ templates -to stuff the body text into. The atom feed is generated using pyatom at the -same time as the separate journal entry pages are written out. +.. role:: sc + +:sc:`Added an atom generator thingy` to ``bupa``, (short for “build page”,) +which is a python script I use to generate this website. The script uses +docutils for parsing the body text written in reStructuredText_ and uses +jinja2_ templates to stuff the body text into. The atom feed is generated using +pyatom at the same time as the separate journal entry pages are written out. Was rather easy to do, tho I’m unsure if I’ll keep it since it’s rather pointless. diff --git a/src/journal/4-comment-moderation.rst b/src/journal/4-comment-moderation.rst index 00cdd06..db5f765 100644 --- a/src/journal/4-comment-moderation.rst +++ b/src/journal/4-comment-moderation.rst @@ -4,11 +4,13 @@ author: Johannes Löthberg author_link: /~kyrias/about.html -Enabled comment moderation in isso today, and it seems to work rather well. It -emails you two links, one to delete the comment and one to activate it. After -the comment has been deleted or activated you just get a blank page though, so -I wonder how hard it’d be to get isso to redirect you to the journal entry page -instead. +.. role:: sc + +:sc:`Enabled comment moderation in isso` today, and it seems to work rather +well. It emails you two links, one to delete the comment and one to activate +it. After the comment has been deleted or activated you just get a blank page +though, so I wonder how hard it’d be to get isso to redirect you to the journal +entry page instead. Even nicer would be having an admin interface to manage both new and old comments, and there’s been an issue_ open about it since almost a year ago, and diff --git a/src/journal/5-hello-yawa.rst b/src/journal/5-hello-yawa.rst index f342557..6c35ada 100644 --- a/src/journal/5-hello-yawa.rst +++ b/src/journal/5-hello-yawa.rst @@ -4,10 +4,12 @@ author: Johannes Löthberg author_link: /~kyrias/about.html -So after HalosGhost_ asked a couple of times for me to add hsetroot-git to my -Arch Linux repository I tried looking for their repo and noticed that there -weren’t one, that the last release was in 2003 and that the upstream website has -been “down for maintenance” for 3 year. Uh-oh. +.. role:: sc + +:sc:`So after HalosGhost asked a` couple of times for me to add hsetroot-git to +my Arch Linux repository I tried looking for their repo and noticed that there +weren’t one, that the last release was in 2003 and that the upstream website +has been “down for maintenance” for 3 year. Uh-oh. After some prodding around I found an old tarball of the last release and imported that into git and build a package, but looking at the code made me @@ -44,7 +46,6 @@ user, so I tried sending an email to the previous developer listed in the AUTHORS file asking for permission, and I hope that I will get a (preferably positive) reply back soon. -.. _HalosGhost: http://halosgho.st/ .. _CMake: http://www.cmake.org/ .. _yawa: http://git.kyriasis.com/kyrias/yawa/ .. _issue tracker: https://github.com/kyrias/yawa/issues diff --git a/src/journal/7-sick.rst b/src/journal/7-sick.rst index 5ba0fc6..dacb29c 100644 --- a/src/journal/7-sick.rst +++ b/src/journal/7-sick.rst @@ -4,8 +4,15 @@ author: Johannes Löthberg author_link: /~kyrias/about.html -Being sick is so annoying. Colds I have nothing against and get them all the time, but last night when I went to bed I felt really nauseous and then finally at around 3 or 4 I started throwing up. Oh yay, another Christmas with gastroenteritis. +.. role:: sc -If I remember correctly I also had it around Christmas in 2011 and/or 2012. (My older memories are rather fuzzy though so it might have only been one of them.) Didn’t continue throwing up for most of the day fortunately but felt nauseous all the time. Think the last time I threw up was around 17:00, and my nausea felt a lot better after that. +:sc:`Being sick is so annoying`. +Colds I have nothing against and get them all the time, but last night when I went to bed I felt really nauseous and then finally at around 3 or 4 I started throwing up. +Oh yay, another Christmas with gastroenteritis. + +If I remember correctly I also had it around Christmas in 2011 and/or 2012. +(My older memories are rather fuzzy though so it might have only been one of them.) +Didn’t continue throwing up for most of the day fortunately but felt nauseous all the time. +Think the last time I threw up was around 17:00, and my nausea felt a lot better after that. Clock is currently 00:35 so I guess it’s actually not the 26th anymore, and I should probably try to sleep. diff --git a/src/journal/8-drugs.rst b/src/journal/8-drugs.rst index a81677f..9a90bc0 100644 --- a/src/journal/8-drugs.rst +++ b/src/journal/8-drugs.rst @@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ author: Johannes Löthberg author_link: /~kyrias/about.html -Already January and a new year again. Feels like it wasn’t so long ago I turned -18 and now it’s less than 2 months until I’m 19. Time sure seems to pass so fast -when you’re looking the other way. +.. role:: sc + +:sc:`Already January and a new` year again. Feels like it wasn’t so long ago I +turned 18 and now it’s less than 2 months until I’m 19. Time sure seems to pass +so fast when you’re looking the other way. Anyway. Back in November or December my mother called the health care center right next door because she was tired of me being unable to sleep and being diff --git a/src/journal/9-XIX.rst b/src/journal/9-XIX.rst index 014e353..04f7aac 100644 --- a/src/journal/9-XIX.rst +++ b/src/journal/9-XIX.rst @@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ author: Johannes Löthberg author_link: /~kyrias/about.html -Turned 19 yesterday, because apparently it’s been a year since I turned 18, and -6 940 days since I was born. Not sure how I feel about it really. +.. role:: sc + +:sc:`Turned 19 yesterday, because apparently` it’s been a year since I turned +18, and 6 940 days since I was born. Not sure how I feel about it really. It feels like when you’re 19 you should be “grown up” and “an adult”, but I just really don’t feel like either. Maybe I’ll just decide to push growing up -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2