question about comment threading in Opal / tags sized according to usage

[belenen]

When there are only a few comments to a post, they all show up, but when there are more than 50 comments on a single post, they are condensed and you have to click the thread link in order to see them. is there a way to suppress the switch? I want comments to always show, even in a long thread.

while I'm at it, is it possible to have the font-

Comments

[ivles]

1. display all comments, always
You have to learn S2 for that

2. this is called tag clouds.
Seek help how to create this with a theme layer in the opal comm.

[belenen]

1. I've been using S2 for a long time.

2. thanks for giving me the name of it.

[ivles]

Good! Then, you'll just have to change all simple form of comment (print_comment_partial) to full form (print_comment).

See howto on tag clouds.

[belenen]

I tried that and it didn't work, so I tried changing the print_comment_partial code to match the print_comment code and that almost works -- it prints everything but the icon and actual text of the comment! ( http://belenen.livejournal.com/302576.html ) ARRRRRRRRGGGGG!!! can you help? here's what I'm using, maybe you can see my mistake:
function EntryPage::print_comment_partial(Comment c