Talk:ตุ๊กตุ๊ก

Disccusions with Stephen over the past months has had me thinking about a way to help overcome the problem with certain scripts such as Arabic and Thai being too small for him and other people. I didn't like the inline HTML font setting he experimented at the time but recent stuff with IPA and Cyrillic stress marks has given me some ideas.

I'll use this page to test the Thai:

Etymology
Imitative from the sound of the engine

Noun



 * 1) A small 3-wheeled motorised vehicle in very common in Thailand


 * Yes, this is a good size. The only problem that I see is that bolding blurs it almost beyond recognition for a new student. Without bolding, it becomes clear: . This may be due to the particular font...perhaps this font doesn’t have a bold counterpart, so a bold-effect is produced the way people used to use overstriking in mechanical type. Except for the bold, I think this looks very good. &mdash;Stephen 09:57, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Now the best thing about these "style templates" is that they are styles, not that they are templates. Firstly, we sysops can set the default font and size at Template:Thai fonts and Template:Thai font size. Advanced users, who know how to use CSS or javascript for styles can then override them if they have fonts they prefer or need to see them even bigger. To try this you need to edit User:User:Stephen G. Brown/monobook.css. I recommend you play with all these. I'm not sure if you already know CSS but you're our #1 guy on exotic scripts so I'm sure we'll all trust you to choose a good default. I just put in a size that showed up as different so we could see that it works.
 * I'm not sure exactly what to do re bolding yet. Our default syntax calls for bold in the headword section but it doesn't work well for CJKV or Thai, and probably other scripts. We can always decide not to do this anymore on scripts where bold is not really a native type concept. &mdash; Hippietrail 14:20, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Translations

 * tuk-tuk