Thanks, Dave, Gilles and Amos, for your suggestions and moral support.
Randy
P.S. Does anyone else think that the ability to have integrated section editing
would be a great enhancement to PmWiki? Take a look at my envisioned edit form
below, and think how friendly that would be for authors who don't know much
markup! I think one of the biggest impediments to PmWiki's wider adoption is
the knowledge that it demands of authors.
On Aug 7, 2010, at 9:15 AM, DaveG wrote:
> This looks like it might be a good starting point:
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Qnotes
I'll have to check that out.
On Aug 7, 2010, at 12:47 AM, ABClf wrote:
> I didn't test it, but did you see this one :
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/LiveEdit
Yes, I did see and test that recipe. (1) it didn't work for me. (2) Its look
and feel are so different from PmWiki's look and feel, that even if I could
make it work I probably wouldn't want to. I'd also rather not add new markup to
the page if that can be avoided.
I don't see why adding new markup should be necessary. The strings that define
sections, page text variables, and the title directive are all well-defined
already. Foxedit, for example, can update anchored sections and page text
variables without adding markup. (Fox can't update the page's title directive,
however.)
On Aug 7, 2010, at 7:59 AM, Amos Satterlee wrote:
> If the entire page is open in the edit form, how can a link in the
> page be active?
>
The section-update links would not be in the area being edited. They would be
on the edit form, right below "Editing MyPage". Here's what I mean:
Editing MyPage
Section: ALL Title Section1 Section2 Section3
------------------(edit area)--------------------
(:title I am the page's title - change me:)
[[#Section1]]
This anchored section, like the title, can be edited without having to look at
the rest of the page.
[[#Section1end]]
(:Section2: This PTV can be edited too.:)
Section3: So can this PTV
--------------------------------------------
If you open the page for editing (when you click on a link with "action=edit",
restore from history, or are being shown a simultaneous edit conflict), you
will see all the page's text, as usual. But above the edit area you will see
section links. By clicking on a section link you can reduce the text in the
edit area to just the text you want to edit. For example if you clicked on
"Title" you would see:
Editing MyPage
Section: All TITLE Section1 Section2 Section3
------------------(edit area)--------------------
I am the page's title - change me
--------------------------------------------
Ideally, the size of the edit area would be reduced for PTVs and Titles to a
single line, but the most important thing is that the user isn't looking at
uninteresting and unfriendly markup.
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