Archive for October 22nd, 2013

Just upgraded the server to Apache 2.4, and started getting 500 errors on everything. Turns out the access control was completely changed; instead of Order deny,allow and Deny from all you use Require all denied. That change fixed everything. Hope this helps someone.

Posted by Danny on October 22, 2013 at 2:35 pm under Uncategorized.
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The Torah as traditionally written has two kinds of paragraph breaks: "open" and "closed". Open paragraphs are the same as in English typography: the next paragraph starts on the next line. Closed paragraphs start the next paragraph on the same line, after a 9-em gap. In the image on the page linked to above, there are 3 closed paragraph breaks, 2 open, then 1 closed.

I was thinking about representing this in CSS, with semantic HTML; something like <p class=open>First Paragraph</p><p class=closed>Second paragraph</p>. The Mechon Mamre tikkun uses a single <p> for the entire portion, then has <br>'s and &nbsp;'s hard-coded into the text. But there ought to be a better way.

See the final formatting.

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Posted by Danny on October 22, 2013 at 12:03 pm under Judaism, Web Design.
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