Computers, hypertexts, and collaborative structures like Wikis are powerful instruments for progressive refinement and disclosure. I would love to see much more of that.
My experience suggests that authoring for progressive disclosure is rather difficult, since people navigate and associate their conceptualizations differently. Just the same, I'm all for it! - Dennis PS: An example of difficulties has to do with on-/off-line help files. (First, the off-line files should have ways to go off-line for more/newer detail rather than it being an exclusive choice to have one or the other.) The search is weak and if consistent terminology is not used everywhere the same concept is being referenced, it is easy to fail to find something that you may even know is there from a previous encounter. And we know that a Wiki can be terrible for users unless it is well-curated. I wonder what answers there are for all that. I merely recognize the problems. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Edmonds [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 11:09 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Collecting small things in the Wiki On 13/06/11 2:35 AM, David Paenson wrote: > Students don't have > the patience, the time or indeed the need to learn about all aspects of the > program, they just want to produce nicely looking documents in as short a > time and with the least effort possible. This is also my co-workers. So I have been collecting short instructions for them. In their case even shorter than your summary. I think the organisation of the information is important. I think of layers, the very simple common things on top because no one wants to look for these and more and more detail as you dig deeper. A wiki is well structured for this. steve -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
