Hi bluespire First off, you ask for "best practice" in the headline but I'd guess(!) there is none because TW is such a general tool that what you describe has probably not been done by many.
That said, I would say that this would be a LOT easier to do if you deal with text instead of pictures. Perhaps you've taken screendumps on a pdf? Did you know that you can actually select text in a pdf doc to copy paste into a text editor? (select by left click and dragging mouse). An idea to actually get it into tiddlers in TW is to put this text into a spreadsheet(!)! This way you could relatively easy move sections under one another vertically and add your desired tags next to each. Export as CSV into eg. Notepad and then copy-pase into tiddlytools CreateTiddlersFromCSV [1] that takes an actual CSV text and converts it into tiddlers! You will (for sure) have to experiment a bit with a smaller experiment to get the details right. If you do intend to use the picture version anyway, you may wish to follow one of the current discussions here on how to display pictures from a Picasa album [2] or possibly other storage. (Interestingly, at least IMO, I just last night posted that perhaps it could be generalized into a more general file handling system.) This does not quite address your issues but if(!) it were to develop into something where individual items in a gallery display can be tagged then it could probably work. Note: generally, you should only show pictures in TW via links. Storing actual pictures in TW makes it very big and slow, but links are smooth. <:-) [1] http://tiddlytools.com/#CreateTiddlersFromCSV [2] http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/browse_thread/thread/b85ca91c8bb092e3 On Apr 28, 10:35 am, bluespire <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm translating a large number of telecom troubleshooting documents into an > MPTW. The most complicated once I have thus far is 43 pages including > screenshots with multiple chapters and sub-chapters. My question is what > would be the "best practice" in inputting these types of documents? > > Here are my thoughts thus far: > > - Store each image/figure as individual jpegs. > - Break each section into its own tiddler > - Tag each section with its respective chapter > - Tag each chapter with the document name > > My thinking is this: breaking the whole thing up into small chunks of data > will make searching easier, rather than pulling up a monolithic document on > one search. It will also help cut down on loading times, since each > sections has 1 or 2 screenshots (53 total). Maybe I can make the document > tiddler have an option to transclude all the sub-tiddlers? I don't know how > to do this, however. Thoughts? > > I have another problem, as well. the TW is stored on network storage. As > such, anyone that opens it is opening as a local file, and will be able to > edit it. Is there anyway to make editing impossible on a local file without > some kind of key? -- 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.
