Thanks for your comments Maria. Actually I accidentally sent the e-mail to the power of less thread (fingers working faster than the brain I guess). But your comments are correct, the tutorial was designed as a intermediate tutorial.
As for previewing, yes it is not immediate, but you can of course still use the preview button after putting the text into the box. Also, the Mozex extension (assuming your using Firefox) is helpful (it is discussed near the end of the tutorial). Cheers, John ________________________________ From: Maria Droujkova <droujk...@gmail.com> To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2009 7:13:53 PM Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: the power of less John, This is an excellent tutorial! It will really help those who are committed to a large projects using wikis, or any other mark-up language for that matter. I think it's useful mostly to people who already remember a large chunk of the syntax by heart, though. For those who do not remember the wiki syntax yet, learning will be delayed by removing the immediate feedback loop of clicking "preview" - unless I missed some easy way for feedback loops. So, this tutorial is an "intermediate" step, for those already in some relatively involved wiki-projects. "The power of less" conversation applies mostly to beginners, in my mind - people not yet committed to using wikis, and trying to check it all out and decide. Thanks again for the tutorial - I will definitely use it. -- Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:25 AM, john stampe <jwsta...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, folks. I just put on wikieducator a help article on editing wiki doing > it my favourite way - with a text editor. Its here > http://www.wikieducator.org/Help:Editing_using_a_text_editor > > However, it could use your help in three ways: > 1. I run Linux and therefore am not familiar with text editors for > windows and Mac (other than ports of Unix editors). These editors should be > included. > 2. I usually use emacs not vim (please no flame wars). So the section on > vim probably could be improved > 3. If you favorite editor is not listed, please add it. > > Happy editing, > John > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
