Eric, I support where you are coming from. My quickStart (I am developing) will be similar to your own. I will add a little text and a list of the additional plugins so people can investigate them as they wish. It is my selection of the plugins that is the Intellectual content I am presenting.
I thought QuickStart was a good name, but perhaps TiddlyWiki QuickStart * Pre-Pack* fits what you and now I intend. I will be depending on each Plugins own documentation to explain themselves in detail. I will also be obliged to upgrade the core and test the Pre-Pack Regularly. On the documentation. Each Time I ask you and others Questions and get great answers I would be happy to update tiddlyWiki.org. It would be helpfull if there was some guidance on this procedure and confidence that others such as yourself will review my posting. This would give you a baseline document (tiddlyWiki.org) which you can overlay with your expertise to create your developer/superuser manual. Regards TonyM TonyM If you have not found an easy way to do it with TiddlyWiki, you have missed something. www.tiddlywiki.com On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 14:39, Eric Shulman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Much as I admire Eric's dedication to helping others (including me), > > his post demonstrates precisely what the issue is. > > When you click on his link it tells you how to get started save a > > TW ...etc. Then you get to the customising bit e.g. > > "set styles (optional) > > If desired, edit the StyleSheet to suit your aesthetic sensibilities" > > but there are no instructions/information about how to edit the > > StyleSheet or simply what to do. > > TiddlyTools' basics.html QuickStart document is just that.... a quick > starting point. It's doesn't try to provide an introductory tutorial > on how to use TiddlyWiki or how to write CSS. Rather, it's purpose is > to merely reduce or eliminate the efforts involved in locating, > selecting, importing, and installing a set of plugins and > customizations that provide basic enhancements to the core TW feature > set. > > There are many ways to determine what level of pre-configured > customization is appropriate or desired in any given document. One > criteria that I used when building basics.html was that it should be a > general-purpose set of enhancements that are not specifically > optimized for any particular use-case. If your objective is to just > start using the document, "straight out of the box", then you can > ignore the *optional* parts of the GettingStarted instructions, and > just start working. There's no need to delve into deep 'tech stuff' > if you don't know how (or just aren't interested)... basics.html is > ready for use "as-is". > > Of course, if your particular use-case is more complex than just > general information storage, then you might want to start from a > document that has been more highly pre-configured and "tuned" with > just the right set of features for supporting your activities. > > This is where such fine documents as Dave's and Morris' fit in... they > are *also* excellent starting points... if you want/need those > features. Of course, if you want to start adding customizations > beyond what is pre-installed, then a certain amount of TW-specific > skills and knowledge are needed, regardless of how simple or complex > the initial document definition is. > > Nonetheless, I definitely agree that there's an obvious gap in > TiddlyWiki documentation, especially in regards to how to make > customizations. I've been working on writing a guidebook/technical > reference, "InsideTiddlyWiki", off and on for quite a while, but it's > been slow going (I keep getting sidetracked), and it's no where near > ready for sharing... and it's probably going to be more technical than > what you are hoping for. If you'd like to offer suggestions for > topics, it might provide me with some direction to help spur my > writing. > > enjoy, > -e > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
