I don't know why yet, but there was a transfer error in the CSS when the blog was moved, and so, for example in this essay about the quotes in James Bond films, the background colour for the Continue Reading tips had disappeared. This has now been fixed. To make the tip blocks a little smaller in size, only the main headline and teaser text is now shown. I also reduced the headline font size in this block by 15% to 36px. I also added a function that allows me to display reading recommendations at the end of blog posts.

There is a new photography page that only shows pictures. Currently with the themes landscape, urban, architecture and analogue. The former Photography page is now more appropriately called Travel. Since I designed the header of the Photography page a little differently, I felt compelled to adapt the two pages Painting and Travel appropriately as well. I have also written something about this.  I am glad that there was such an opportunity to publish a quote from Stevenson's beautiful essay on walking. There was also something to fix, throughout the blog and post pages there was a broken footer display. I apologise for that. - Maybe someone noticed it: In addition to the ID, the number of the template is now also displayed at the end of the page, I can't see my way through otherwise. Currently, the total number of templates used on blog.cronhill.de and cronhill.de is just under 55. 

As people who know me know, I love bricks. They are the simplest letters of the architectural alphabet and they also serve as a metaphor for focused and confining writing. This and the book Zen and the Art of Maintaining a Motorcycle are the subject of my new blog post « Writing is about seeing ». Pirsig's parable about a student who fails at a task and who manages to overcome her writer's block by focusing and looking closely was worth writing down.

There is always something to do on the website, especially when I have taken it a bit easy on some templates and not included responsive images. In the status report, some image descriptions now run next to the image on tablets, saving some space vertically. I have placed the image description flush at the bottom. 

On the overview pages, there were still too many elements in the listing in the en and fr versions; archived versions were also displayed due to a missing template filter.

Up to now, a page for the changelog was missing, for which only one column was provided on the start page. The page now exists in all three languages, but it is only accessible to interested parties in the right-hand column at the bottom. Because of its purpose, it has been kept as technically rudimentary as possible. I read through Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 https://semver.org/lang/de/ out of interest. I'm not a software developer, but I found it quite interesting.

In the portrait view on tablets, there is too little margin around the page in the status report. 1/20 margin has been added in this view. Responsive images in three sizes are now loaded for the images in the middle column of the status report. This should speed up the page a little more.

I was so excited about the covers that I absolutely had to write something about Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Also, all the state of play reports in de, en and fr are now finally in sync.

The English and French versions of the status report unfortunately had quite a few HTML errors, caused by missing editing of a parameter. Corrected in the English version. 

The first thing I do when I start working on this page is to create a new change post. All changes are entered here like a list. For the automated subject image directory I first had to create a global context TV, it is called ++site_abb and contains the designation for the images - as an abbreviation. I decided on Abb., Fig. and Ilust. (de, en, fr). I actually managed to number the illustrations sensibly. The only drawback is that if a subchapter has no picture, the number is skipped. But I see it positively. Each picture has a unique ID. - That the numbers don't go through is bad luck.

Of course, now there are problems with the <ins> element and the image meta-data. I can't use the <ins> tag because I also use it for the alt tag of the image. HTML 5 in Alt Injection. That's what I'm missing right now. But that also means I still need to create a TV that only holds the image alt and title data. I only take one value for both, even though that's not exemplary. This now means that I unfortunately have to screw around in MIGX. The new TV is called: p0301ColPictureAltTitleTag. Of course I have to create the TV for the pictures in the main column as well.

When editing, you always find something, of course. In the chunk for the pictures in the left column, the word source was still hardcoded, I have now replaced this with the appropriate and already available context TV ++site_sourcename. In doing so, I also pay attention to the correct distance to the colon in French.

Now that I put all the sources in the description in the intermediate state for the automatic image directory, I smoothly forgot to keep the old image numbers. Sigh. So I edit all entries again and add a <del> element for the old image names.

Furthermore, it is necessary to create a new template for the status reports, as I would like to keep the old image directories in the previous versions, the new template gets the designation: 03.01.01.Sachstandsbericht.Single.

I actually finished and thanks to a few exclamation marks (disable caching), it succeeded. I have an automatically updating list of figures. Tomorrow I will add jump marks so that you can jump from the directory to the images. I still have to make all the changes in the en and fr context.

It is not often that I write documentation. But since it is not very common on the web outside Wikipedia to work on a text permanently, I thought it was worth the effort to write in detail about what the factual reports are all about. There are now three parts, Part I, in which I explain my motivations, Part II, in which I present the overview page, and today I published Part III (not translated yet), in which I present the basic layout of the status reports.

Then today I repaired the defective marginalia in the template. Yesterday I was able to repair the defective jump labels in the template, they had simply not been generated correctly by MODX, this is now done and works. I am considering having the image directory generated automatically. Also, the citations above the chapters should get sensible sources. 

In the blog template, I removed the default jpg from the automatic image generator for the picture element, so png files can now also be used for the picture element in the post. It was about time. In the state of affairs template, the formatting for the chapter pictures still needs to be changed for the ipad view. I'll take care of that tomorrow.

There are two new pieces of content on the blog. A review of the month of July with some retrieval statistics, then something about one of my favourite plants in the garden, the ornamental sage or Salvia Nemorosa. Then I did something in the engine room: changed the order of the images in the "blog post 1 image" template, they are now displayed in the order they were arranged rather than the order they were uploaded as before. I started to write something about the format of state of play reports.

I have often thought that the format of "state of affairs reports" was finally ready. But far from it. It is a complex technical construct of possibilities for nesting chapters and sub-chapters in terms of content. There is the special and unique possibility of displaying changes in the text, which I have been working on since March. The queries and template statements in the background are complicated and complex and the number of template variables is unfortunately enormous. Today I adjusted a few minor technical things, such as the display on iPads. The script for displaying the changes is in and a first test change is also displayed correctly. (Thanks L.) For the documentation of the changes to the text there is a separate section Corrections, which is now also linked from the top of the menu. The comments are no longer at the very end, perhaps this will motivate more readers to leave one.