Touched upon many times, but simply not satisfactorily manifested yet: TW as a tool for authoring books!
No, I cannot find any existing implementation for this, surprisingly. A few attemps have been made at writing books with TW and some ideas to use TW as a hypertext story tool. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about TW as a tool to create normal, longer, to-be- printed books, articles, academic papers, magazines etc. I.e effectively creating, displaying and sequencing(!) tiddlers so that they can build up a *linear* whole. Let us make an attempt at identifying existing plugins and otherwise specify the needs to use TW as an effective authoring tool. I think a good solution to this really could open a new MAJOR APPLICATION for TW! The concept is generic and easily understood by anyone considering using TW. In my experience almost everyone has ideas about writing a book in him/ her. (Don't you?) I'd even guess that this is of wider use than ANY of the applications/ examples explicitly mentioned to promote TW at http://www.tiddlywiki.com/#Examples Ironically, TWs fractionated and non-linear nature that makes it perfect for information collection and flexible "information association" is almost the opposite of a printed books rigid, structured and linear nature. The authoring process itself, regardless of TW, is typically a matter of transforming creative and loose ideas into refined information and put into one exact location. This is true both for fictional and non-fictional writing, as well as for books, articles, papers or a Ph.D thesis. Note I'm talking about authoring, not formatting, let alone publishing etc. Any result would eventually have to be exported into some other tool like a word processor. I will post my thoughts on the needs and relevant plugins but figured it would be good to hear your general thoughts on the matter first. Solutions, problems, whys and whynots and particularly needs and specifications for the concept to be useful. :-) -- 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.
