Gah...

...I started to love LJ's new 'S2' style system... but now I just hate the blasted thing.

For two simple reasons. One of which only programmers will understand. One of which only artists will understand.

First off, the programmer-side of me hates that I can't "over-load" intrinsic functions of the basic builtins with expanded versions, and insert 'user' styles between, say, the 'Core Style #1' and whatever style I pick. I.E. I can't redefine the 'DateTime' and 'Date' modules to understand Pendorian, and then simply use an existing style with that minor tweak. No, I have to re-implement things from the ground up.

Second, the artist-side of me hates that there's no way to simply layer numerous 'user' styles atop each other, for instance seperating my colour selections from my code so I can delete one without affecting the other. As a side-aspect, there's not even an existing interface for 'flattening' or 'merging down' two overlapping user-created styles, though that is barely needed since I can't really have that many layers in the first place.

Gah... just gah. S2 is very nice, but it's not as programmable, or as interactively-tweakable, as it 'tastes' like at first. Or am I just on crack and/or crazy?

BTW, mira_fastfire? Sleep well, beautiful flower. *sends happy thoughts* I love you. =^.^=

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...I do have some things working on my own journal now. I'm slowly working through and rebuilding everything to Pendorian, because damnit, if I'm going to be fighting the damn style system every step of the way, I'm going to keep fighting the god damn thing until it's beaten into a whimpering, mangled mess in the corner.

And then I'll submit the style as an example of how far you can stretch the style system, and what changes to the style-editing tools and the S2 system itself would have made the creation of said style easier, both from a progmatic and end-user standpoint, so hopefully the damn tools will improve. Even if I have to start developing the damn code myself. =^.^=

And yes, I plan to make the journal support setting the 'calendar' it's kept in, between Pendorian, Terran, and Martian to start with. For now, just getting Pendorian finished is the largest task.

Now... anyone out there able to think of a better calendar layout for a year with 262 days split across 16 months, with 4 '1 day' months littered about than the following?

Yestar							Loende
					1							1
Narrin							Cerim
1	2	3	4	5	6		1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12		7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18		13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24		19	20	21	22	23	24
Nenim							Urim
1	2	3	4	5	6		1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12		7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18		13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24		19	20	21	22	23	24
Sulim							Yavar
1	2	3	4	5	6		1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12		7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18		13	14	15	16
19	20	21	22	23	24				Narquel		1	2
Virta							3	4	5	6	7	8
1	2	3	4	5	6		9	10	11	12	13	14
7	8	9	10	11	12		15	16	17	18	19	20
13	14	15	16	17	18		21	22	23	24	25	26
19	20	21	22	23	24		27	28	29	30	31	32
Lothess							Hiss
1	2	3	4	5	6		1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12		7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18		13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24		19	20	21	22	23	24
Narnya							Ring
1	2	3	4	5	6		1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12		7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18		13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24		19	20	21	22	23	24
Attendes							Metarre
1							1

Specifically, should I do the coding needed to 'tack in' Narquel to avoid having the right-side often be a line longer than the left-side of the calendar? I'm half-way between making the calendar orient to the weekdays (6 in a week) or label the weekdays at the top each time instead. So... time for a poll! =^.^=

[Poll #282798]

Low-level routing techy blatherings ahead...

( ...cut for everyones mental sanity. )

This is just part 1, and this is yet another item I'm going to multi-part as I can sit down and write it out. I'll also convert the final version into a HOWTO and see if I can't get it added to the iptables docs page if I can find some translators.