They look to be working fine to me. Note that readmore tags only take effect when you're not reading the node directly, i.e. start at Tk::Thumbnail --> callback help and scroll down to see your reply.

Re: Tk::Thumbnail --> callback help
by zentara on Apr 14, 2005 at 21:35 UTC

      Here, I chopped down the script I mentioned above, to just be a 
+thumbnail displayer, with HList. The thumbnails are stored in memory,
+ not disk files. I've left the HList -selectmode => 'single', and you
+ can work out how you would like to display multiple files.

      If you use -selectmode=>'multiple', you can use the "shift-left-
+mouse-click" to select multiple thumbnails, but then you will need to
+ work out a display strategy. Maybe a "right-mouse-click" binding on 
+the HList, along with multiple labels(with images) in the main frame.
+ You can also put checkbuttons in the HList if you want. Anyways, thi
+s should get you started.
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That doc could use some updating. For one thing, READMORE doesn't just work in "root node"s. For another, the description is not clear (as you noted). /me clicks the Need Help?? link and searches for "readmore"... *sigh*

Well, the best explanation of READMORE I found just now was the one I wrote in a footnote of Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. I hope that helps some of y'all. Perhaps it will even inspire some SiteDocClan member(s).

- tye        

Thanks for the information. It does raise another question for me though. I noticed in Re^3: How to update a node? (readmore in code) that the raedmore tab appears to be case sensitive according to the second option below.

you can write <READ MORE> or <READ­MORE>

I know this is not the case with the <code> tag but are there other case/whitespace issues with the perlmonks approved tags, shortcuts, etc?

Do your user settings have "Override <readmore> tags" set?

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Readmore sections have class attributes assigned to them that can be coupled with a touch of CSS to show text that would be readmored as highlighted a different way. For instance I have

div.readmore {background-color: #eee;}
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in my user css, which makes it much easier to see what would be readmored when the node is viewed in the appropriate context.