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Improving recipe formatting

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It's currently difficult to write out "modernist"-style recipes in the recipes tab. See the following example from Modernist Cuisine:

Omelet base recipe

It doesn't seem possible to create tables without resorting to ugly HTML. Is there any way this could be made easier in the editor? Perhaps by supplying a CSS class that could let us avoid lots of style=".." attributes in the tags?

The key formatting features here are:

  1. The title ("Omelet Base")
  2. The yield (300g)
  3. The four primary columns: Ingredient, Quantity, Scaling, and Procedure
  4. For each "step", the Procedure column spans all rows in that step.
  5. Numbering is monotonic through each recipe (can be done in CSS with custom counters)
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Canina‭ wrote over 4 years ago

Note that that site doesn't even try to include the recipe as text; each recipe is an image, which introduces all sorts of problems on its own (ones that I can think of right now are searchability and various aspects of accessibility). Even if it was text, unless it's very carefully laid out in the HTML, I strongly suspect e.g. screen readers would have huge difficulty with it. Also, I really can't say I care for that format, myself, but that's probably more personal than objective.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 4 years ago

Please keep accessibility and varied devices in mind. That format would not work on a phone at all, and would not work for someone who needs a little zoom and isn't using (or willing to go full-screen on) a humongous monitor. For recipes in particular, we should assume that some people will be consulting them while cooking, meaning in the kitchen, meaning probably using a phone or tablet. A list of ingredients followed by list of steps isn't as fancy but is more flexible.