Body language and Traipah, plus culture

[fayanora]

I've been working on this Traipah story called "Culture Shock," which is about humans moving to Traipah without enough preparation, and finding it very difficult to adjust. I have the human characters hailing from a colony world that's a lot like our society now, so they're like a stand-in for us. I've been having fun remembering existing Traipahni

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[kengr]

For footnotes, you can do tags or tags.

It's also possible to make them links to other parts of a page, but I don't think that works on LJ.

For even more fun, there are ways to have "definitions" (or translations or other things) appear when you hover the mouse on them. Again, don't think those will work on LJ.

But if you ever want to do them on your own pages, let me know.

[kengr]

Here are the "simple" ones. Hover the mouse cursor over the marked words to see the results:

--works in IE and Mozilla/Firefox, IE has no indication,
M/F has dotted underline--
acronym tag
TS
TS

--works in Mozilla/Firefox, indicated by dotted underline--
abbr tag
TV
TV

dfn tag
TG
TG

There's yet another way that works in pretty much everything, but it requires javascript and CSS

[fayanora]

ABBR works in Chrome.

[kengr]

As I recall they *all* work in most browsers. It's just that they don't *display* differently until you hover the cursor.

Just checked, all three work in IE, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari.

The CSS trick doesn't work in the version of IE I've got installed on the main box. Or, more likely, I didn't get the CSS right.